The British Library is one of three copyright libraries in the UK (the other two are the Cambridge and Oxford University Libraries). So UK publishers are obliged to send them a (free) copy of every book they publish. It has amassed a vast collection of material, some of it stored in its main building next […]
Of course, full marks to Microsoft for getting the British Library to support them so vigorously.
When I first got interested in OpenXML, I contacted Andrew Miller, MP. He has a website, although I do not recommend visiting it with a standards-compliant browser such as Firefox, because it does not display properly (I assume it works […]
Good question.
I subscribed to my first blog about a month ago - rather late in the day! I now have a feed viewer (after playing with freeware and shareware, I finally settled for Vienna, running on OS X) and subscriptions to around 150 feeds. So for the price of about 1 hour a day (which […]
To the casual onlooker, the British Library is solidly behind OpenXML and indeed believes that its adoption as an ISO/IEC standard is essential.
One of the first documents I ran into when I got interested in OpenXML was this powerpoint presentation (it is also available as a pdf if you look on the directory) […]
There is another issue to consider: the re-use of existing standards. Another part of general standards lore is that one should not constantly reinvent the wheel. So if documents can involve maths, and there is an existing standard for representing maths, then you should re-use that, not re-invent your own variant of it. There are […]