Subject: Re: XML and GILS
Eliot Christian (echristi@usgs.gov)
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 13:13:38 -0500
Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980401131338.00787eb0@130.118.4.2> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 13:13:38 -0500 To: gils@cni.org From: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov> Subject: Re: XML and GILS In-Reply-To: <199803261413.IAA23534@multi28.netcomi.com> References: <3.0.3.32.19980323111212.0077e5f4@130.118.4.2>
Hi Mark
On 3/26/98, Mark Kelly <mark@markkelly.com> wrote:
>
> Eliot (and anyone else),
>
> I'm out in Seattle at an XML conference. Microsoft, Netscape and Sun
> have all said that the se XML as the way to handle structured data on
> the Web.
Excellent!
> A new W3C submission <see
> http://www.microsoft.com/standards/xml/xmldata-f.htm> called XML-Data is
> being proposed as way of getting any information from any data source to
> any client - browsers, applications or applets.
Yes, I am excited about this XML-DATA proposla as well. Ralph Zwick of
W3C and Eric Miller of OCLC have warned me that it is but one among
multiple proposals, but it does seem to address the things we care
most about.
> I'm not sure if you mentioned this before, but this is clearly an area
> in which the GILS (and Z39.50) world should be taking an interest.
> Although this is still in formative stages GILS certainly doesn't want
> to be caught unawares if this thing takes off.
I agree totally.
I might also mention that I see this aligning with the work on the Basic
Semantic Registry. It seems to me the BSR approach helps us to place
the GILS semantics into a coherent and broadly based object model. Such
a model is necessary for XML to make sense above the syntactic level.
This should position GILS for whatever schema sharing approach ends up
being endorsed in the RDF work, and possibly EDI, X.500, OMG, ... :-)
Eliot Christian, US Geological Survey, 802 National Center, Reston VA 20192
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