You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
This section contains XML vocabularies that can be
shared among multiple industries or disciplines.
There are nearly 400 pages of articles on this site with over 100 pages on XML background, specifications, and vocabularies.
Search this site for more articles
Custom Search
Browse this site for more articles
Click on the topics below to browse the articles on this site. You can see more detail by clicking on the arrows. This highlights the location of the current
article: Common XML vocabularies.
Related recent articles from Google News
Pentagon Disbands Network Warfare Shop Wired News “They attempted to break the logjam of services arguing over XML vocabularies ('your tank is not the same as my tank') – and were marginally effective. ... and more » 10 Aug 2010 at 1:00pm
Vocab Lessons EContent (press release) For instance, take the move toward controlled vocabularies such as Simplified English, a standardized language that provides a general dictionary and a set ... 31 Aug 2010 at 11:05pm
Smart Buildings share schedules with Business and Smart Grids AutomatedBuildings.com (press release) WS-Calendar builds on this work, and consists of extensions to the vocabulary of iCalendar, along with standard services to extend calendaring and ... 1 Sep 2010 at 2:23pm
With info sharing, context is as important as content GCN.com The problem is that a narrow, project-only perspective fails to capture the semantics needed for a larger audience. A simple example would be to think only ... 9 Aug 2010 at 2:43pm
XML Databases and the Semantic Web by Bhavani Thuraisingham Average Customer Review: based on 10 reviews. Customer Review: I am new to the field of web and databases and found this to be an excellent book. It is very well written and very easy to read. It does not hype up the area like some other books do and provides a very realistic picture. I am now eager to learn more about the field.
based on 16 reviews.
based on 5 reviews.
