GMPG – Connecting people through incremental simplicity

Global Multimedia Protocols Group

The GMPG can be explained as an experiment in Metamemetics. The first aim of Metamemetics is to create a structure of principles that foster the construction and propagation of elemental ideas. The GMPG attempts to stimulate simplification of virtual substructures and bring people to question established structures and their relationships. Because people are not used to seeing elemental technologies or concepts which are powerful and immediately usable, frequent and novel encounters with GMPG efforts provoke optimism and empowerment, nevertheless reawakening criticism of complexity and a desire for simplicity.

Via Marc

XML Best Practices (eCH)

eCH-0018: XML Best Practices (L.C.)

Via eCH. Der Verein eCH fördert und verabschiedet E-Government-Standards in der Schweiz.

RDF Calendar

Marc Laporte from Tiki CMS/Groupware, Gregor from OSCOM had an interesting IRC discussion on Calendar data sharing (RSS feeds for calendars). They posted the transcript on the OSCOM Mailinglist.

As a comment a posteriori, Edd Dumbill sent an email about the RDF Calendar taskforce headed by Libby Miller. He also mentioned:
http://eventsherpa.com/ and http://www.sherpafind.com/

SVG OPEN 2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Announcing SVG Open 2004, the 3rd Annual Conference on Scalable Vector
Graphics! The conference will be held September 7-10, 2004 at Keio
University, Japan, on the Mita Campus in Tokyo. For full details on the
conference, tune your Browser to the conference Web site:

SVG Open 2004

Via Jun Fujisawa

Googling for XML

Googling for XML

Just went quickly over it, have to read it more thoroughfully.

XSLT as an analysis tool

Chuck White’s tutorial reminded me of Jon Udell’s Weblog Search

XSLT is meant to change the form of XML, but you can also use it to perform analysis. In this tutorial, the second in a series, the MindMap team creates a system that enables them to pass parameters that not only determine the properties to analyze but also change the desired criteria using Web-based forms. And because it’s all in an XSLT stylesheet, the team can change the algorithm or output without recompiling the application.

XML Family Picture

After the RSS Family Picture here now the even bigger picture of the:

XML Family of Specifications by Ken Sall.