That might not be the best analogy. The most commonly-cited reason for
Beta losing out to VHS seems to be the initial limitation of Beta to
1-hour tapes, which wasn't enough to record a movie from TV, or to play
back a rented one without switching tapes partway through. By the time
Beta
William Wueppelmann wrote:
[snip]
I'm not entirely sure that TCP/IP and the other IETF RFCs became
established because of restrictions placed on OSI. I was under the
impression that OSI was also insanely complicated and that the IETF
standards were much cheaper to implement from a technical
The closest thing I'm aware of is the EAD Toolkit.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/oac/toolkit/
ewg4x...@gmail.com 07/06/09 05:33AM
Hi,
I'm curious as to whether anyone on the list has worked on or knows about
any web-based XForms application for creating and editing EAD Finding Aids.
Dear All,
Apologies for the cross-posting.
The following survey is being distributed on behalf of the Dublin Core
Metadata Initiative's Registries Task Group, the Joint Information
Steering Committe (JISC) and UKOLN.
The goal of the survey is to collect information from Metadata Registry
Well, it's not a great example, because I don't have a
'counter-example', but I think it will remain to be seen if ISO 20775
goes anywhere if it, too, remains behind a pay wall. If an open spec
were to come along that allowed the transfer of holdings and
availability information that was decent
