...vital for seamless global communication. Thus the textual content of HTML and XML is defined in terms of Unicode-every program handling XML must use Unicode internally. The search engines all...
...errors, and facilitate research. At the technical level, EHRs comprise multiple component specification frameworks intended to address identified “use cases,” such as ordering lab tests, securely archiving the test results,...
Standards organizations and governments have been working on Electronic Health Records for many years. In this article I describe the complexities that make the creation of EHRs difficult, survey the...
...accurate, what the sources are, and any associated comments (mostly from Pamela's articles at Groklaw, the most recent of which is being updated with new votes as news comes in...
...the Web as examples of a new global standards paradigm in action would not come out in favor of free standards, since much of the success of these same networks...
The U.K. has become the latest country to conclude that for information and communications technology (ICT) procurement purposes, “open standards” means “royalty free standards.” While apparently falling short of a...
In principle, every author (self published or otherwise) should be in favor of diversity and competition in the book distribution marketplace. The reason? Because competition in any area of commerce...
How do you measure the value of free and open source software (FOSS)? That's a puzzler, because it's, well, free. Moreover, a popular distribution like Linux can incorporate the...
...comments, and one to abstain, again with comments. The votes have now been received back. and are as follows: Abstain, with comments: Unanimous Approve, with comments: 12 for, 3 against,...
...words, a non-fiction book that shows up on a topical word search at Amazon can sell itself through the “look inside” feature at Amazon. You’ve got to come up with...