Five questions to ask a potential consultant

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Google’s Library Project: Questions,
Questions, Questions

Google’s Library Project: Questions,
Questions, Questions 01/03/2005 07:10 PM

Internet Consultant

Internet Consultant 07/20/2004 06:00 AM
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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. - Internet Consultant
http://InternetConsulta nt.BlogSpot.com/

Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. is an international Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert in the area of information retrieval, knowledge discovery, knowledge harvesting, artificial intelligence and bots/intelligent agents. Internet Consultant Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. lists his professional Internet consulting services that are available to public and private businesses and organizations.

Color Consultant Pro 1.1.1

Color Consultant Pro 1.1.1 02/10/2004 02:54 AM
Interactive color wheel that supports multiple color schemes and spaces.

Web Development Consultant

Web Development Consultant 02/01/2005 09:51 PM
Radio Free Asia - United States, DC, Washington (2005-02-01)

How to be a successful consultant

How to be a successful consultant 01/07/2004 06:18 PM

Jeff Nichols is running a series on how to be successful as a consultant, based on his knowledge and expertise gained from years in various roles in IT and business. Entries one—the hidden job description—and two—you are a project manager—are up now, as well as an introduction to the series.

Keep an eye on this series. I’ve already read the outline for the whole thing and it’s good stuff.

Web Developer Consultant

Web Developer Consultant 12/15/2003 05:40 PM
Performance Resources Corp - United States, NY, New York (2003-12-15)

No Consultant Left Behind

No Consultant Left Behind 02/05/2005 09:57 PM
Business book authors don`t necessarily write at the level of their peers.

Are you a VoIP security consultant? Want
a job?

Are you a VoIP security consultant? Want
a job? 03/31/2005 11:46 AM
ZDNet Mar 31 2005 3:33PM GMT

Search algorithm consultant

Search algorithm consultant 04/13/2004 05:04 PM
1-800-Save-A-Pet.com - United States, IN, Richmond (2004-04-13)

How to hire an IT security consultant

How to hire an IT security consultant 03/25/2005 11:42 PM

Consultant, Heal Thyself

Consultant, Heal Thyself 04/18/2005 07:33 AM

Perl Application Consultant

Perl Application Consultant 12/03/2003 04:54 PM
eNamix Inc. - United States, CA, Aliso Viejo (2003-12-03)

William W. Maslin Jr. | Computer
consultant, 60

William W. Maslin Jr. | Computer
consultant, 60 05/04/2004 05:11 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer May 4 2004 9:45AM GMT

Shark Tank: Guess they just like him
better as a consultant

Shark Tank: Guess they just like him
better as a consultant 06/05/2005 10:55 PM
Consultant pilot fish spots the need for personalized service to one of his firms biggest clients, and that lands all of their business -- and a new job opportunity for fish.

"G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male
Partner."

"G.O.P. Consultant Weds His Male
Partner." 04/10/2005 03:32 AM

Amy Wohl, Consultant, Futurist, Gourmand

Amy Wohl, Consultant, Futurist, Gourmand 06/04/2004 05:05 PM
Amy Wohl, whose newsletter is required reading, has started a blog on food. (From Wohl's Opinions to Wohl's Onions?)...

MySQL/Perl Senior Consultant

MySQL/Perl Senior Consultant 01/06/2005 08:10 PM
MySQL - United States, California, Cupertino (2005-01-06)

Patience is key when dealing with a
difficult consultant

Patience is key when dealing with a
difficult consultant 01/10/2003 02:45 AM
CNET Jan 10 2003 1:54AM ET

Consultant market on the upswing in
Europe

Consultant market on the upswing in
Europe 09/17/2004 03:51 PM
ZDNet Sep 17 2004 7:47PM GMT

ADV: Legal Nurse Consultant
Certification

ADV: Legal Nurse Consultant
Certification 08/13/2004 12:18 AM
Become a certified legal nurse consultant to enhance your nursing career. Register with the Vickie Milazzo CLNC institute. Locations across the U.S.. Financing available.

New ACT! Certified Consultant in South
Florida - Welcome Rey Nunez

New ACT! Certified Consultant in South
Florida - Welcome Rey Nunez 08/05/2004 03:40 AM
Lady Entrepreneurs, Inc. is pleased to announce our newest ACT! Certified Consultant, Rey Nunez. Rey successfully passed the online and classroom training by Best Software. Rey joins the office of Lady Entrepreneurs, Inc. located in Hollywood, Florida. [PRWEB Aug 5, 2004]

Consultant recommends Macs as more cost
effective

Consultant recommends Macs as more cost
effective 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
With a recent study by the Yankee Group stating that many small to medium sized businesses are wary of Microsoft's motives, consultant Kevin Ledgister is encouraging small businesses to consider Macs running Mac OS X as an alternative...

MySQL/Perl Senior Consultant in
Scandinavia/Germany

MySQL/Perl Senior Consultant in
Scandinavia/Germany 04/13/2005 05:30 PM
MySQL AB - Sweden, Uppsala (2005-04-13)

Software Developer/Consultant
(Perl/Unix/Sybase)

Software Developer/Consultant
(Perl/Unix/Sybase) 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
Softagon Corporation - United States, NY, New York City (2004-01-13)

Lotus Notes HTML Email Consultant Needed

Lotus Notes HTML Email Consultant Needed 03/14/2005 06:09 PM
GlobalEnglish Corp, a leading eLearning company, is looking for a consultant with significant experience creating HTML emails that are compatible with the Lotus Notes email client. Ideally, you are familiar with how HTML support differs between versions of Lotus Notes, and also about Lotus Notes email server configuration issues.

Review: Start to Finish Guide to
Becoming a Consultant ebook

Review: Start to Finish Guide to
Becoming a Consultant ebook 02/10/2004 02:50 AM

Departing Motorola CEO Galvin to stay
with company as consultant for two years

Departing Motorola CEO Galvin to stay
with company as consultant for two years 11/07/2003 12:58 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 6 2003 11:55PM ET

Tsunami Aid Donations from an
Independent Software and Internet
Marketing Consultant

Tsunami Aid Donations from an
Independent Software and Internet
Marketing Consultant 01/06/2005 04:07 AM
Small town internet marketing consultant promises to donate $15,000 within 3 weeks to the victims in the tsunami tragedy by selling a search engine marketing software and giving away the proceeds to tsunami relief efforts. [PRWEB Jan 6, 2005]

Computer Consultant granted 40 Million
cedis bail for fraud

Computer Consultant granted 40 Million
cedis bail for fraud 04/16/2005 07:34 PM
GhanaHomePage Apr 16 2005 9:45PM GMT

Act! Consultant Will Hold Next Meeting
Of The Act! Users Group Of South Florida
On October 5, 2004

Act! Consultant Will Hold Next Meeting
Of The Act! Users Group Of South Florida
On October 5, 2004 09/21/2004 02:49 AM
Local ACT! Consultant Will Demonstrate New ACT! Version 2005! [PRWEB Sep 21, 2004]

Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. Joins SurfNet as
Consultant and Business Advisory Board
Member

Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. Joins SurfNet as
Consultant and Business Advisory Board
Member 08/30/2004 02:34 AM
Former congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. has joined Surfnet Media Group, Inc. as a consultant and member of its Business Advisory Board. [PRWEB Aug 30, 2004]

Web forum shapes political thinking:
Dean consultant in Berkeley builds
'bl0g' into influential tool

Web forum shapes political thinking:
Dean consultant in Berkeley builds
'bl0g' into influential tool 01/16/2004 01:04 PM
critique their work is gathering some momentum on the web .. deve ser lido com ateno .. very nice write-up .. another article .. quotes

sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/15/BAGR14A8Q71. DTL
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The APH Group Named as
Swainsboro/Emanuel County, Georgia Joint
Development Authorities’ Site Consultant
for UK Companies

The APH Group Named as
Swainsboro/Emanuel County, Georgia Joint
Development Authorities’ Site Consultant
for UK Companies 02/01/2005 08:46 PM
Through its alliance with the Swainsboro/Emanuel County Joint Development Authorities, The APH Group will be assisting UK companies setting up U.S. operations in hub of South Georgia. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

Mediabids, the Only Online Print Ad
Space Marketplace, Saves Client, The
Vacation Consultant 74 Percent On
Magazine Advertising Costs

Mediabids, the Only Online Print Ad
Space Marketplace, Saves Client, The
Vacation Consultant 74 Percent On
Magazine Advertising Costs 04/04/2005 02:25 AM
Print media broker saves client 74 percent on magazine advertising costs [PRWEB Apr 4, 2005]

Peter G. Balbus, Management Consultant
and Futurist, Sees Significant Growth
Opportunities for Companies with
Indirect Sales Channels

Peter G. Balbus, Management Consultant
and Futurist, Sees Significant Growth
Opportunities for Companies with
Indirect Sales Channels 12/28/2004 07:24 PM
Web-enabled marketing technologies make possible new business models and new strategic capabilities [PRWEB Dec 21, 2004]

THE
KNOWLEDGE CONSULTANT AS
STORY-GATHERER

THE
KNOWLEDGE CONSULTANT AS
STORY-GATHERER 07/26/2004 02:34 PM

Dave Snowden has a lot of nerve. The founder of the IBM Cynefin Centre doesn't stop at saying that collecting 'best practices' and most other accepted Knowledge Management activities are largely fruitless (he makes an exception for standard practices in highly prescriptive jobs, and proven, authorized practices in high-risk and high-security situations). He is almost as disdainful of many of the idealistic goals of Personal Knowledge Management -- helping front-line workers to do their jobs more simply and effectively and to find experts they can draw on and network with. If the tools to do PKM aren't adequate, he maintains, the answer is to create better tools, not show people how to use deficient ones (and creating tools is IT's job, not KM's). One of the things he thinks KM should be doing is helping management understand and lead their organizations more effectively. Management is, after all, the group paying for organizations' KM activities, and a group that is, in most organizations, far from happy with what KM has delivered. Snowden argues that the best way for KM to help management is to be a kind of 'cultural anthropologist' in the organization you are working in or advising. One of the ways anthropologists study and understand tribes is by listening to and gathering stories. Analogously, Snowden says, it's important that KM people get out and spend time on the front lines really understanding what the organization's real stories are -- not the ones that appear in the mission statement or the company newsletter, which say what management wishes the company culture was, but the peer-to-peer stories that truly define the organizational culture, drive what people really believe and do and how they act, and make the company, for better and for worse, what it truly is. To gather those stories, you must be as honest as an anthropologist, not try to do it surreptitiously, because people only tell the real stories to people who have gained and earned their trust. Snowden has developed very sophisticated and rigorous processes for doing so, which he details in his 'masterclass' called Using Narrative in Organisational Change,, which you can now buy on CD-ROM. In Thomas King's book The Truth About Stories, King argues that if you want to change a culture, you need to change its story, because that's all a culture is. I don't know that Snowden would disagree, but he would argue, I think, that changing an organization's real stories is not so easy. That's why mission statements don't work -- they're wishful thinking, myths that management would like to believe everyone buys and is motivated by, but really aren't. If you're in management, he says, you don't change the stories, he says, you understand them, then you act on them, and then you make them your own, retelling them in your own way so that you show the people in the front lines of the organization that you understand the real culture of the organization (and the real problems of front-line workers). In so doing you harness the astonishing power of 'true' stories. Snowden is acutely aware of the overt class distinctions in Britain that make trust, and hence collecting stories, hard to achieve. While some of us in Europe and North America might argue that our class distinctions are not as formidable barriers as they are in the UK, I think this would be a mistake. Americans, I have observed, make a great effort to pretend that class distinctions don't exist or are permeable, by allowing everyone to use first names, for example, when in fact the hierarchies are at least as strict as they are in the UK. The only real difference is that the determinants and clues of status are subtler -- a bit more tied to wealth and the circles you move in and a bit less pre-determined by heredity. But trust is still deepest peer-to-peer and extremely hard to earn and sustain between management (or their henchman consultants and head-office lackeys) and front-line people. That is perhaps why management is in a constant quandary over decentralizing -- it clearly improves productivity, innovativeness, morale and work effectiveness, but it allows people that management doesn't really trust more control and autonomy, and perhaps even allows them to develop -- heaven forbid -- their own organizational culture. The reality, as Snowden argues, is that management is never in charge of organizational culture, that people behave the way they do partly because they've learned it's the most effective way to do their unique job and partly in their own self-interest, and not because it's in the procedure manual or the role description or aligned with the mission statement or the strategic plan. Once you have collected the true stories in an unbiased manner (Snowden carefully explains how to remove bias, so you don't get 'fed' just what you want to hear or put your own personal 'spin' on the story), the next step is to act on them. Stories tell management important information about what works, and, more importantly, what doesn't work, in the organization. A lot of stories are about how people have solved problems that management hasn't addressed, or which management has in fact created. These are often very comical or very heroic stories that not only have important messages for management, but illustrate exemplary behaviour that management may not realize it's not rewarding, or actually inhibiting. It is critical, Snowden says, to make sure you understand the stories, and to collect and organize and ponder a lot of stories, before charging in and making changes that misconstrue the organizational culture, impede rather than help, and destroy forever the trust that the story-gatherer built up to capture this critical information. And finally, once management has acted carefully and conscientiously on the learnings from the stories, they can actually make these stories their own, not by retelling them in the same words and context as they heard them (that would be disingenuous, a form of intellectual property theft), and not by appropriating them and making models and heroes of their protagonists (that could make the poor protagonists look like head office plants), but by conveying the same messages and lessons with stories from their own personal work context. Crafting such stories is a complex, rigorous and skillful process, and explaining this process takes up much of Snowden's 'masterclass' time. There are different types of stories, like fables, myths and viruses, each with a different purpose and different construction (the course provides templates of each). Even more important is the testing of stories by telling and having others retell them until they are perfected. The impact of an executive telling employees a real story about the organization, credibly and powerfully, can be profound, even transformational. Just imagine -- instead of the boss telling his/her people what to do, and evaluating them on his/her perception of their 'performance' in doing so, picture the boss explaining that he/she understood exactly why his/her people were doing what they were doing, and offering constructive ideas on how management could make the employee's job easier and more effective. Management supporting the staff instead of the other way around. Hey, I know it's a 90s idea and is out of fashion again these days, but stories, properly collected and interpreted by trained KM practitioners, can make it possible. I hope Dave won't object to my sharing one of his stories to illustrate this -- it's hard to write about stories without at least one example. He describes a group of public service utility workers who are subjected to a consultant's efficiency review, which leads to them being given fewer work breaks and being given networked PCs to allow them to save time travelling into the office for paperwork between jobs. What the consultant didn't realize (and what the careful collection of stories finally revealed) was that these workers shared vital information about how to do their jobs properly during these work breaks and office visits, and this information either couldn't (because it's highly contextual and needs conversation to convey effectively) or wouldn't (because of the lack of trust of how stuff posted publicly might be used by management) be captured in databases or messages on their new PCs. So the workers found a surreptitious place for unofficial work breaks and a surreptitious place for 'offline' documentation of information they wanted to share with peers, 'working around' the consultant's well-meaning but wrong-headed and dysfunctional change proposals. [Dave makes this into a long and wonderful story with a brilliant punch line, a resolution in which management finally learns from this mistake and turns it to astonishing advantage, and since I'm not telling a story here, I won't spoil it -- get the CD-ROM to hear the story completely and properly.] But the point is that the organizational culture is what it is, and usually for a good reason, and it's vital to understand that culture by collecting the stories that reveal it, before you try to change processes or behaviour, or the change effort will inevitably fail, as almost every organizational change effort does. I got out of the KM business last December, and since then I've toyed with the idea of becoming a new-age KM or PKM consultant, but then decided I'd had enough of this well-intentioned but endlessly-struggling discipline. But I recognize that there's still important KM work that could and should be done. While I agree that PKM needs better tools much more than it needs process improvement consulting, I still think there is much promise in Personal Productivity Improvement as an offshoot of KM. And now Dave has convinced me that the exercise of capturing and interpreting and acting on an organization's real stories would be worthwhile, especially for large organizations. But I think calling it Cultural Anthropology or Story-Gathering is a non-starter -- try to sell CEOs something with that woolly a name these days and you'll starve. What could we call it that would be accurate and still compelling to CEOs who don't, yet, get what it's all about?

Design Firm Fashions Image Consultant’s
New Online Image

Design Firm Fashions Image Consultant’s
New Online Image 06/25/2004 02:08 AM
Creative Flavor, a full-service interaction architecture and design firm, launched a redesigned web site for Image Consultant Rachel Dee, viewable at www.racheldee.com. [PRWEB Jun 25, 2004]

Chinese Business Specialist and China
SEO Consultant Lonnie B. Hodge Will Join
Sinotrading.us As Full-time
International Search Engine Marketing
Coordinator and Director

Chinese Business Specialist and China
SEO Consultant Lonnie B. Hodge Will Join
Sinotrading.us As Full-time
International Search Engine Marketing
Coordinator and Director 06/17/2005 03:23 PM
Lonnie B. Hodge, a China SEO Specialist and Chinese Business Consultant, has joined forces with www.Sinotrading.us to provide translation, editing and cultural marketing services. [PRWEB Jun 17, 2005]

"Tech consultant discovers that Linksys
WRT54G allows remote, over-the-Internet
administration login even when remote
management is turned off"

"Tech consultant discovers that Linksys
WRT54G allows remote, over-the-Internet
administration login even when remote
management is turned off" 06/03/2004 12:21 PM

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UN/CEFACT releases ebXML Core Component
Technical Specification for second
public review (XML Cover Pages)

UN/CEFACT releases ebXML Core Component
Technical Specification for second
public review (XML Cover Pages) 10/03/2002 11:39 AM

Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery

Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery 04/11/2004 06:42 AM
Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.mont ague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm

The gaps between subject and functional boundaries are one of the best sources of breakthrough innovation. Yet for a variety of reasons — managerial, technical, and editorial — it's often difficult to exploit them. In this article they use an example from their own research and experience to show how linguistic tools such as thesauri, glossaries, and navigation schemes can promote knowledge discovery by exposing potential linkages between seemingly unrelated subjects. The full text of the article is free, but registration is required. The demo shows how parallel taxonomies can be created for two very different stakeholder groups and linked through cross references. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Technical Yahoo - SWE Tools

Technical Yahoo - SWE Tools 09/08/2004 08:29 PM
Yahoo! Inc. - United States, CA, Sunnyvale (2004-09-08)

MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype
Spoofing Vulnerability

MSIE Download Window Filename + Filetype
Spoofing Vulnerability 07/12/2004 02:15 PM
Paul (Jul 11 2004)

RE: MSIE Download Window Filename +
Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability

RE: MSIE Download Window Filename +
Filetype Spoofing Vulnerability 07/12/2004 03:58 PM
Drew Copley (Jul 12 2004)

Web Harvesting

Web Harvesting 07/05/2004 07:46 AM
Web Harvesting by Russell Kay, Computerworld
http://snipurl.com/7hjp

It's hard to argue with the proposition that the World Wide Web is the largest repository of information that has ever existed. In just over a decade, the Web has moved from a university curiosity to a fundamental research, marketing and communications vehicle that impinges upon the everyday life of most people in the developed world. But there's a catch, of course. As the amount of information on the Web grows, that information becomes ever harder to keep track of and use. This vast amount of freely available information is spread over billions of Web pages, each with its own independent structure and format. So how do you find the information you're looking for in a useful format -- and do it quickly and easily without breaking the bank? This has been added to Data Mining Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge
Workers' Productivity and Organisational
Knowledge Sharing with Webl0g-based
Personal Publishing (BlogTalk 2.0
Publication by Martin Rll)

Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge
Workers' Productivity and Organisational
Knowledge Sharing with Webl0g-based
Personal Publishing (BlogTalk 2.0
Publication by Martin Rll) 08/16/2004 06:25 AM
Distributed KM - Improving Knowledge Workers' Productivity and Organisational Knowledge Sharing with Weblog-based Personal Publishing .. written paper

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The Gurteen Knowledge Website -
Knowledge Management

The Gurteen Knowledge Website -
Knowledge Management 09/19/2004 06:22 AM
The Gurteen Knowledge Website - Knowledge Management
http://snipurl.com/8zi5

A very comprehensive resource for information on knowledge management. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Harvesting Different Fruit

Harvesting Different Fruit 04/17/2004 07:09 PM
Being shown the money isn't what drives Steve Wozniak, who retired from Apple after its initial public offering, having engineered Apple I and Apple II.

Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH
Framework

Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH
Framework 01/04/2005 06:53 AM
Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework by Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/vandesompel/12vandesompel.html

Abstract:
Motivated by preservation and resource discovery, we examine how digital resources, and not just metadata about resources, can be harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). We review and critique existing techniques for identifying and gathering digital resources using metadata harvested through the OAI-PMH. We introduce an alternative solution that builds on the introduction of complex object formats that provide a more accurate way to describe digital resources. We argue that the use of complex object formats as OAI-PMH metadata formats results in a reliable and attractive approach for incremental harvesting of resources using the OAI-PMH.

UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project

UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project 05/10/2004 01:04 PM
ASP OAI 2.0 Data Providers 1.5 Released

Ethically Harvesting Emails of People
Who Wish to Be Contacted

Ethically Harvesting Emails of People
Who Wish to Be Contacted 06/29/2004 10:19 AM
Bob asked to swap links on his website. Is there an easy and ethical way to harvest those emails for link exchanges?

Email harvesting virus crashes Google

Email harvesting virus crashes Google 07/27/2004 05:58 AM
New Scientist Jul 27 2004 10:18AM GMT

RTSP Specification

RTSP Specification 07/26/2004 10:37 AM
New version available (07)

Midas Specification

Midas Specification 03/14/2003 12:58 PM
rich-text editing within Web pages .. Midas

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New specification will aid Bluetooth

New specification will aid Bluetooth 06/14/2004 12:26 AM
Sydney Morning Herald Jun 14 2004 5:01AM GMT

An overview of the new XPointer
specification

An overview of the new XPointer
specification 02/21/2003 02:11 AM
CNET Feb 21 2003 1:25AM ET

Final 802.11i specification set for
approval

Final 802.11i specification set for
approval 06/24/2004 06:22 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 24 2004 11:07AM GMT

Blu-ray Disc specification approved

Blu-ray Disc specification approved 08/11/2004 03:16 PM
Next-generation DVD specification approved, clearing way for manufacturers to produce read-only disks.

C++/CLI Language Specification Standard

C++/CLI Language Specification Standard 08/12/2004 02:34 AM
When TG5 has completed this specification, it will be submitted to the Ecma General Assembly (GA) for consideration as an Ecma standard. Once it has been adopted as such, the specification will be submitted to ISO/IEC JTC 1 via the latter's Fast-Track process. The ISO/IEC standard and TR for CLI were published in April, 2003, and are known formally as ISO/IEC 23271 (CLI) and ISO/IEC 23272 (CLI TR). Equivalent specifications were adopted as 2nd edition standards and TR by ECMA at its December, 2002, General Assembly. Work on the next edition of this standard and TR began in January, 2003.

FOAF Vocabulary Specification

FOAF Vocabulary Specification 02/01/2005 09:20 PM
FOAF Vocabulary Specification
http://xmlns.com/foaf/ 0.1/#sec-foafvocab

The FOAF project is based around the use of machine readable Web homepages for people, groups, companies and other kinds of thing. To achieve this they use the "FOAF vocabulary" to provide a collection of basic terms that can be used in these Web pages. At the heart of the FOAF project is a set of definitions designed to serve as a dictionary of terms that can be used to express claims about the world. The initial focus of FOAF has been on the description of people, since people are the things that link together most of the other kinds of things they describe in the Web: they make documents, attend meetings, are depicted in photos, and so on. The FOAF Vocabulary definitions presented here are written using a computer language (RDF/OWL) that makes it easy for software to process some basic facts about the terms in the FOAF vocabulary, and consequently about the things described in FOAF documents. A FOAF document, unlike a traditional Web page, can be combined with other FOAF documents to create a unified database of information. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

WS-Addressing specification submitted to
W3C

WS-Addressing specification submitted to
W3C 08/10/2004 04:20 PM
BEA Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., SAP AG and Sun Microsystems Inc. have submitted the WS-Addressing Web services specification to the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) for consideration as a standard, the companies said Tuesday.

WS-Eventing Specification Released

WS-Eventing Specification Released 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
The new WS-Eventing specification defines an event-oriented message exchange pattern using the Web services architecture, which constitutes the basis for a range of applications - from simple device eventing to enterprise publish/subscribe systems.

DomainKeys draft specification

DomainKeys draft specification 05/19/2004 10:38 AM
Jeremy Zawodny notes that Yahoo's DomainKeys proposal is now public. Here's the Internet-Draft; here's the blog chatter as seen by Technorati. ...

NVidia Unveils MXM Specification

NVidia Unveils MXM Specification 05/17/2004 10:30 AM
Breaking News: NVidia wants a standard form factor for mobile PCI Express graphics connectors. The laptop manufacturers like it, but will ATI bite?

XML-Deviant: Specification Proliferation

XML-Deviant: Specification Proliferation 06/17/2005 04:28 PM
Micah Dubinko examines the problem of specification proliferation and looks to a similar area — open source software licensing — for possible solutions.

JavaServer Faces specification is
approved

JavaServer Faces specification is
approved 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Technology provides for standardized Web apps development

IBM BladeCenter specification picks up
speed

IBM BladeCenter specification picks up
speed 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
IBM on Friday announced it has signed up 115 companies since early September to develop for its eServer BladeCenter open specification it co-authored with Intel.

Group proposes faster Wi-Fi
specification

Group proposes faster Wi-Fi
specification 08/12/2004 01:23 PM
Networking consortium submits proposal for faster Wi-Fi as battle lines are drawn between rival groups.

Working Draft: QA Specification
Guidelines

Working Draft: QA Specification
Guidelines 06/03/2004 06:42 PM
2004-06-03: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released QA Specification Guidelines as a Working Draft. The document is designed to help W3C Working Groups write technical reports. Reflecting major changes in the W3C QA Framework, these newly rewritten guidelines are lightweight and more user-friendly. Comments are welcome. Learn more about Quality Assurance (QA) at W3C. (News archive)

Five questions to ask a potential consultant

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