Work Package 5 Transmission of Data - Related resources

Possible areas of interest...

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the direct communication of trading messages between computer systems, using national and international telecommunications networks. EDI trading messages can be as basic as orders and invoices, but can also be developed into a much more sophisticated information exchange.

EDI for the Book World

Prepared by EDItEUR with the support of the European Commission DG XIII and in association with BIC.
<URL:http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/infopak.html>

FTP

Harvesting

PICS

Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is an infrastructure for associating labels with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing, privacy, and intellectual property rights management.

The W3C PICS page

<URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/PICS/>

W3C and Digital Libraries - James S. Miller, W3C - Dlib Magazine, Nov 96

Contains an overview on the use of PICS to form a base for encoding and transmitting metadata derived from the Dublin core and the Warwick framework.
<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/dlib/november96/11miller.html>

RDM

Resource Description Messages (RDM) is a mechanism to discover and retrieve metadata about network-accessible resources. RDM is based in part on the Harvest Architecture developed originally at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Resource Description Messages (RDM)

Darren Hardy, Netscape - July 1996.
<URL:http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/ifla/documents/libraries/cataloging/metadata/rdm.htm>

Resource Description Messages (RDM) - W3C NOTE

Draft document - work in progress
<URL:http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/NOTE-rdm.html>

Netscape Catalog Server

Netscape press release - March 1996
<URL:http://home.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease97.html>

Warwick Framework

A container architecture for aggregating logically, and perhaps physically, distinct packages of metadata.

The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Aggregating Sets of Metadata

Lagoze, Carl and Lynch, Clifford and Daniel, Ron, Jr. Cornell Computer Science Technical Report TR96-1593 - June 1996.
<URL:http://cs-tr.cs.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/2.0/Describe/ncstrl.cornell%2fTR96-1593>

The Warwick Framework: A Container Architecture for Diverse Sets of Metadata

Carl Lagoze, Digital Library Research Group, Cornell University - D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1996. An abbreviated version of the above.
<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/dlib/dlib/july96/lagoze/07lagoze.html>

A quick overview of the Warwick Framework

Andy Powell, UKOLN.
<URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisap/BIBLINK/wf.html>

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