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 DITA OASIS Standard defines an XML architecture for designing, writing, managing, and publishing technical documentation in print and on the Web. DITA (commonly pronunced dit'-uh) builds content reuse into the authoring process for document creation and management.
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.
USGovXML is an index to publically available web services and XML data sources that are provided by the US government. USGovXML indexes data sources from all 3 branches of government as well as its boards, commissions, corporations and independent agencies.
Xena is free and open source software developed by the National Archives of Australia to aid in the long term preservation of digital records. Xena is an acronym meaning Xml Electronic Normalising for Archives. Xena is a component of the Digital Preservation Software Platform (DPSP). Xena software aids digital preservation by performing two important tasks: * detecting the file formats of digital objects * converting digital objects into open formats for preservation.
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
eXist-db is an open source database management system built using XML technology. It stores XML data according to the XML data model and features efficient, index-based XQuery processing.
".epub" is the file extension of an XML format for reflowable digital books and publications. ".epub" is composed of three open standards, the Open Publication Structure (OPS), Open Packaging Format (OPF) and Open Container Format (OCF), produced by the IDPF. "EPUB" allows publishers to produce and send a single digital publication file through distribution and offers consumers interoperability between software/hardware for unencrypted reflowable digital books and other publications. The Open eBook Publication Structure or "OEB", originally produced in 1999, is the precursor to OPS.