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Tables of Contents for Scaffolding the New Web
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
iii
Figures and Tables
ix
Summary
xi
Acknowledgments
xv
Glossary
xvii
Introduction
1
2
The Place of Standards
3
8
What Makes a Standard Standard?
4
3
The Potential Importance of Standards
7
4
Lessons From Five Case Studies
11
4
Standards Foster Openness
11
1
But Standards Have to Solve Problems, Both Technical and Social, to Succeed
12
1
The Internet and World Wide Web Have Shifted the Focus of Interoperability
12
1
Light Standards Continue to Do Better
13
1
But the Encapsulation of the Real World into Standard Semantics Is Likely to Be Difficult
13
2
The Emerging Challenge of Common Semantics
15
6
Let the Market Decide
15
1
Have Different Communities Each Decide
16
1
Assume Intelligent Software Will Mediate Among Various Vocabularies
17
1
Develop Standard Ontologies into Which Standard Terms Are Mapped
18
1
Concentrate on the Key Words
19
1
Coda
19
2
Standards Development Institutions
21
8
The IETF
21
3
ISO, ITU, and ECMA
24
1
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
24
1
The Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) Forum
25
1
Open-Source Software
25
1
A Typology
26
3
The Place of Standards
29
8
The Patent Trap
30
2
Standards as a Policy Tool
32
2
NIST's Evolving Role
34
2
For Further Research
36
1
Conclusions
37
2
Appendix A The Web as We Know It
39
16
Appendix B The Extensible Markup Language
55
20
Appendix C Knowledge Organization and Digital Libraries
75
16
Appendix D Payments, Property, and Privacy
91
14
Appendix E Standards and the Future Value Chain
105
8
Appendix F On the Meaning of Standard
113
2
Bibliography
115