In the #code4lib IRC channel today Ed Summers asked me some good questions about storing metadata in a native XML database. The gist of his questions was that he wasn’t sure he saw any advantages that a native XML database might have over a relational database (yes, I’m simplifying a bit I’m sure). As we [...]
Archives for XML
The Renesis of SVG
Just heard a very interesting presentation and (amusing) question and answer period on Renesis, the soon to be released SVG viewer and development platform from EvolGrafix. It was one of the parts of the conference I was most looking forward to (for practical reasons) and I was not disappointed (though it would have been nicer [...]
SVG Open 2005
Hooray! I’ve been approved to attend SVG Open this year. It looks like a very interesting conference. We are not currently doing anything with SVG (I’d be interested to hear from libraries who are), but are very interested by many of the possibilities that it offers. We currently have an image navigator/page-turning site, but there [...]
Posts