I was a little amazed and very amused to see that one of the new features of Unicode 6.0, released just last month, is the Emoji symbol set, which is reported to be widely used on Japanese cell phones. These whimsical symbols must open all kinds of possibilities for text messaging.
Unicode may not officially include Klingon characters, but it can still allow for fun.
PDF/A-2, according to a news item from Luratech, has been finalized and will be published as a standard in early 2011. (But see the comments.) Some more information (PDF) is available from the PDF/A Competence Center. PDF/A-1, which is based on PDF 1.4, will continue to remain a valid standard. PDF/A-2 is based on ISO 32000-1, aka PDF 1.7.
W3C now has a press release on WOFF, which I discussed in an earlier post. The abbreviation WOFF has now acquired a name (the rather feeble “Web Open File Format”), and there’s a FAQ.
Previously it sounded like an interchange format to me. Now apparently it’s a format for use by Web browsers.
My RSS feed for the Ten Thousand Year Blog went invalid, so I went searching and found it had moved to Blogspot. I really don’t know why anyone would voluntarily switch to Blogspot, but it’s David’s choice, and I suspect there’s a fair amount of overlap in the readership of our blogs (and if you’ve never read it, I suggest giving it a try), so spreading the word about the CoA is a reasonable thing to do.
W3C’s WebFonts Working Group has announced WOFF 1.0 (working draft), a format for encapsulating and compressing font data. The name WOFF apparently doesn’t stand for anything in particular. WOFF isn’t a font format apart from existing formats, but a way to package fonts on the Web. Additional metadata can be attached to a WOFF file to identify the font’s origin and restrictions.
Percy Willett has announced:
The JHOVE2 project team is holding a full day tutorial on the use of JHOVE2 on September 19, 2010, in conjunction with the iPRES 2010 conference in Vienna, Austria.
The main topics covered during the tutorial will be:
- The role of characterization in digital curation and preservation workflows.
- An overview of the JHOVE2 project: requirements, methodology, and deliverables.
- Demonstration of the JHOVE2 application.
- Architectural review of the JHOVE2 framework and Java APIs.
- Integration of JHOVE2 technology into existing or planned systems, services, and workflows.
- Third-party development of conformant JHOVE2 modules.
- Building and sustaining the JHOVE2 user community.
This tutorial is an updated and expanded version of the workshop presented at iPRES 2009 in San Francisco. This tutorial will closely follow the production release of JHOVE2 and will incorporate significant new material arising from the second year of project work.
The targeted audience for the tutorial includes digital curation, preservation, and repository managers, analysts, tool users and developers, and other practitioners and technologists whose work is dependent on an understanding of the format and pertinent characteristics of digital assets.
For more information on JHOVE2, see the project wiki at: http://jhove2.org
For more information on iPRES 2010, and to register for the workshop and conference, see the conference website: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/dp/ipres2010/
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Is the ZIP format in the public domain? Partly? Completely? Not at all? See an interesting discussion by Rick Jelliffe.
W3C has announced Rule Interchange Format (RIF) as a new Recommendation. RIF is intended for porting rules (e.g., for filtering, categorization, business processes, etc.) among heterogeneous rule systems. It’s particularly aimed at the Semantic Web, as discussed here and here.
Seeing Standards, the result of a project supported by the Indiana University Libraries, provides a visual arrangement of metadata standards used with cultural heritage work. There are lots of relevant standards! Jenn Riley, Metadata Librarian in the Indiana University Digital Library Program, developed the content. Design work was performed by Devin Becker of the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science.
Files that Last: Digital Preservation for Everygeek, an e-book to bring the message of digital preservation to the broader geek world.
Mad File Format Science 