Article:		Dynamic News Stories
Subject:		Prism Standard
Date:		2006-05-27 08:45:30
From:		Joe Germuska
Are you familiar with PRISM? [1,2] It's an acronym for "Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata" and a lot of big players have signed on to it. Its section on "inline markup" shoots for some of the things you describe. (It also has a section on rights designations and another on controlled vocabularies.) It's an enormous spec, extremely complicated, and possibly too big for its own good. I wonder if anyone has actually built anything upon it. (Maybe XML.com can assign someone to investigate and report back?) Of course, the key to making something like this work would be automating the tagging. It wouldn't have to be perfect, as news institutions already have proofing and fact checking processes -- those same checks could validate a tagging pass by an automated process. [1] http://www.prismstandard.org/ [2] http://xml.coverpages.org/prism.html

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