Making news understandable to computers
Computers and devices are largely unaware of events taking place in the world. This could be changed if news were made available in a computer-understandable form. In this paper we present XML documents called NewsForms that represent the key points of 17 types of news events. We discuss the benefits of computer-understandable news and present the NewsExtract program for converting text news stories into NewsForms.
Dan rants: XML for Calendars
Presents a proposal for XML encoding of calendars of events.
Creating XML Applications With Zope
Zope is an open source application server that enables you to rapidly develop applications for the Web. Zope’s unique object-oriented flavor make it an interesting choice for developing XML applications: Firstly, it allows you to treat XML content as objects. Then it allows you to write applications by creating methods for your XML objects.
NewsML is an XML encoding for news which is intended to be used for the creation, transfer and delivery of news.
NewsML is media independent, and allows equally for the representation of the evening TV news and a simple textual story.
Specifically, NewsML provides the following features:
This one looks intresting, a media independent news format in XML.
The First-Cut Manifesto proposing an alternative to XMLing all the text on the internet. Intresting idea that would like to see in a spec.
Data Management for XML Research Directions by Jennifer Widom
XML Server list is discussion XML server dream or *SML* server dream? Intresting discussion.