a web-based service designed to make it easier to convert academic papers from typical word-processor editing formats such as MS-Word .DOC and OpenOffice .ODT, to publishing layout formats such as XML.
The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.
openpub - Project Hosting on Google Code. an application of the Atom Syndication Format intended to enable content creators and distributors to distribute digital books via a simple catalog format. The mechanism through which compatible Reading Systems access the distributed catalog has three components: eBook content, XML catalog metadata, and an HTTP transport for the catalog. OPDS-compatible Reading Systems must support IDPF EPUB, and may optionally support additional formats.
The SAFE (Standard Archive Format for Europe) has been designed to act as a common format for archiving and conveying data within ESA Earth Observation archiving facilities. The Basic SAFE Schema Set is an extract of the whole SAFE Schema Set. SAFE uses the latest available technologies to achieve its goals of preserving the archived data for a long-term, facilitating the conversion into different formats, simplifying the extraction from the archive and enhancing their utilization by end-users and/or processing systems.
a non-profit membership organization. software vendors, school districts, state departments of education and others. primary and secondary (pK-12) education. platform-independent, vendor-neutral rules and definitions called the SIF Implementation Specifi