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  XML: not a silver bullet, but a great pipe wrench
Usdin T., Graham T. StandardView 6(3): 125-132, 1998.  Type: Article

This eight-page paper does a good job of explaining what XML is and is not, and what it can be used for. The relationship between XML and HTML is described, as is its connection to SGML. The paper provides several Web URLs for sites wo...

Jan 1 2000
  E-commerce: a market analysis and prognostication
Bolin S. StandardView 6(3): 97-105, 1998.  Type: Article

Bolin’s article is a 1998 summary of the state of electronic commerce in both the United States and Europe, with some projections of the future. Naturally, at this point a 1998  article  is significantly dat...

Nov 1 1999
  User participation in standards setting--the panacea?
Jakobs K. (ed), Procter R., Williams R. StandardView 6(2): 85-89, 1998.  Type: Article

Contrary to the general trend of trying to increase user participation in the standards development process, the authors argue that “user participation at all costs does not achieve much; in fact, may be counterproductive due...

Aug 1 1999
  The business benefit of standards
Bird G. StandardView 6(2): 76-80, 1998.  Type: Article

Bird discusses “open standards” that can be implemented in products without encumbrances, royalties, or excessive charges. Buyers and users benefit from increased flexibility, freedom of choice, lower costs of integ...

Jul 1 1999
  Software reuse and standardization for SMEs: the CIM-EXP perspective
Kovács G. StandardView 5(2): 58-60, 1997.  Type: Article

The author reports on the benefits of reuse and standardization that have been detected in a small enterprise, a Hungarian software house working on telecommunications and networking problems, which has taken part in an Esprit project....

May 1 1998
  Standard reuse practices
Doublait S. StandardView 5(2): 84-91, 1997.  Type: Article

The author relates the experience of Sodalia, a company that has embraced reuse as a key strategy to reach its objectives of high-quality, rapidly deployed telecommunications software applications. Sodalia allocated funding for 12 anal...

May 1 1998
  Software reuse standards
James J., Moore J., Rine D. (ed) StandardView 5(2): 50-57, 1997.  Type: Article

Software engineering, a young and evolving art and science, does not enjoy the luxury and security of universally adopted standards. The need for standards to lower costs and ensure quality has long been felt by most organizations, bot...

Apr 1 1998
  World Wide Web distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV)
E. James J. StandardView 5(1): 3-8, 1997.  Type: Article

WebDAV is a working group within the Application Area of the Internet Engineering Task Force that works cooperatively with the WWW Consortium. This article presents the rationale for standards in Web distributed authoring and gives a d...

Mar 1 1998
  Distributed authoring on the Web with the BSCW shared workspace system
Horstmann T., Bentley R. (ed) StandardView 5(1): 9-16, 1997.  Type: Article

Most Web pages are static. They become outdated fairly quickly by failing to keep up with changes to the information they contain. The authors of this paper attempt to make Web pages dynamic. They describe the BSCW shared workspace sys...

Dec 1 1997
  Measurement-based standards for future information technology systems
Wakid S., Radack S. StandardView 5(1): 36-40, 1997.  Type: Article

The charter of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL), which operates within the US government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is outlined in this position paper. The goal of the ITL is to develo...

Nov 1 1997
 
 
 
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