YEARS OF EUROPEAN ONLINE ANNÉES DE EN LIGNE ...

WORKSHOP
• publishing technologies which are based on, or proit from, the use of
XmL-based markup, and
• technical and organisational work with XmL, which includes experience
in the use and coniguration of tools.
four meetings were organised (see Section 2.1.). the minutes of them are
available in the ‘members area’ (‘Ongoing projects’ section) of the forum website
(http://circa.europa.eu/irc/opoce/ojf/info/data/prod/html/index.htm).
the report is structured in different parts. After some information on the
use of XmL in the production of oficial gazettes in the various countries, a
description of the work undertaken gives detailed information on the meetings,
the subjects discussed and their interests. Contacts with other working
groups are summarised afterwards.
Chapter 3 gives a general overview of the discussions which led to limitations
of the initial mission and the deinition of the work to be executed by the
working group. Chapters 4 and 5 describe the results of the work, a glossary of
common metadata and details of its technical implementation as a w3C XmL
schema and a DtD. the last chapter underlines the beneits of the use of a set
of common metadata.
the report is completed by the metadata vocabulary, the schema, the
DtD, and instructions on how to integrate the grammars and where to access
them. the last annex contains a list of all members taking part in the working
group meetings.
In the very irst meeting, representatives of the countries, when talking
about their different experiences in the work with XmL, made it clear that they
all could proit from the exchange of experiences. the lack of intuitive and user
friendly interfaces to the XmL authoring tools was identiied as one of the
most serious problems for XmL projects.
Countries
EU
Italy
XML
from 1 may 2004, the Official Journal of the European Union
will be composed using XmL markup (‘formex v.4’,
formex being ‘formalised Exchange of Electronic Publications’;
the ofice previously used SGmL (since 1985:
formex V.1, V.2, V.3).
the NORmA editor and the NiR editor were developed in
the context of the Norme-in-rete project. the two editors
thus became the main editing tools in the Italian legislative
process. the NORmA editor is an add-on to microsoft
word, and the NiR editor is based on Java and XmL technology.
has good expertise on use of XmL.
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