Publications beginning with 'B'

At the Tools & Trends conference at National Library of the Netherlands on 1-2 November 2007 Remco Verdegem, Nationaal Archief of the Netherlands, presented Dioscuri, which is a modular emulator. He also discussed the differences, pros and cons of the emulation and migration strategies, respectively. [PDF, 579KB]

This document contains the first description of the overall architecture of the two XML based languages for describing and extracting characteristics of digital objects: the Extensible Characterisation Description Language (XCDL) and the Extensible Characterisation Extraction Language (XCEL). It starts with some conceptual clarifications reflecting discussions at contact meetings with various partners during the first project months. The bulk of the document consists of XML schema definitions for the two languages and sample documents showing their practical application. [PDF, 503KB]