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PRISM Metadata Specification
Modularized
PRISM Specification is
Made Available as a Modularized Set
Alexandria, VA - February 1,
2005 - PRISM (Publishing Requirements for
Industry Standard Metadata), an IDEAlliance Working
Group, today announces the availability of a modularized
version of the PRISM 1.2 Specification. PRISM
Specifications are available at http://www.prismstandard.org/specifications/.
Since the founding of the PRISM Working Group
in 1999, this working group single-handedly developed
the PRISM metadata framework and all metadata
vocabularies for publishers. Now that the framework
has been established and the value of standardized
metadata for publishing has been recognized and
is being broadly implemented, a call has come
from publishers to expand the PRISM umbrella,
defining more metadata vocabularies built upon
the established PRISM architecture. In the fall
of 2004, IDEAlliance designated PRISM as the architecture
for all publishing metadata specifications within
IDEAlliance moving forward. It also recognized
that the growing requirement for additional metadata
vocabularies would outpace the capabilities of
a single PRISM Working Group. IDEAlliance recognized
that they needed to organize so that several working
groups could advance PRISM in a coordinated manner.
A first step in this process is to separate the
PRISM Specification into separate modules that can
be maintained and extended individually.
The aggressive effort to modularize PRISM began
in the fall of 2004 while the newest version of
PRISM was awaiting final approval by the IDEAlliance
Board of Directors. An expedited effort to modularize
the new specification was required so that PRISM
metadata sets could be advanced in 2005. IDEAlliance
contracted with Joe McConnell, the current PRISM
Specification Editor, to expedite the modularization
effort. Joe began by proposing a modular breakdown
of the specification, which was approved by the
Working Group. Next he developed detailed outlines
for each module. Finally McConnell developed the
copy for each module, derived from the existing
PRISM Specification.
The modularization effort proceeded employing
the IDEAlliance specification change control mechanism
to review the new PRISM modules and track changes
that resulted from the review process. In addition,
IDEAlliance editorial staff provided final copy
edits to the specification package. As of this
release, PRISM is described in a set of formal,
modularized documents that, taken together, represent
“the PRISM Specification.” Together
these documents comprise the PRISM Documentation
Package.
The initial release of the modularized PRISM
Documentation Package, is the equivalent of the
single document PRISM 1.2 Specification that was
approved in December 2004. Moving forward, the
monolithic PRISM Specification will no longer
be maintained. All revisions will be made to individual
documents in the PRISM Documentation Package,
with each being versioned separately. Over time,
new documents may also be added to the documentation
set that makes up the PRISM Specification.
According to Dianne Kennedy, IDEAlliance Vice
President of Publishing Technologies, "Over
the past year, the PRISM standard has gained traction
as companies have begun to use it in actual production
environments. We have taken this opportunity to
modularize the PRISM Specification so that it
can more easily serve as the basis for extending
IDEAlliance publishing content metadata standardization
efforts on several fronts. We welcome any publishers
who are learning more about the value of metadata
for asset management to participate in upcoming
PRISM standardization efforts."
The PRISM 1.2 Documentation Package consists
of 7 PRISM Documents. These documents are organized
into an introduction and 6 PRISM namespace-based
documents. The PRISM Documentation Package is
made up of:
| Document |
Description |
| PRISM Introduction [PRISMINT] |
Overview, background, purpose
and scope of PRISM; examples; contains no
normative material. |
| PRISM Compliance [PRISMCOMP] |
Describes two profiles of PRISM
compliance for content and systems; includes
normative material. |
| The PRISM Namespace [PRISMPRISMNS] |
Describes the elements contained
in the PRISM namespace; includes normative
material. |
| The PRISM Subset of the Dublin
Core Namespace [PRISMDCNS] |
Describes the elements from
the Dublin Core namespace that are included
in PRISM; includes normative material. |
| The PRISM Rights Language Namespace
[PRISMRLNS] |
Describes the elements contained
in the PRISM Rights Language Namespace; includes
normative material. |
| The PRISM Inline Markup Namespace
[PRISMIMNS] |
Describes the elements contained
in the PRISM Inline Markup Namespace; includes
normative material. |
| The PRISM Controlled Vocabulary
Namespace [PRISMCVNS] |
Describes the elements contained
in the PRISM Controlled Vocabulary Namespace;
includes normative material. |
| The PRISM Aggregator Message
Namespace [PRISMAMNS] |
Describes the elements contained
in the PRISM Aggregator Message Namespace;
includes normative material. |
New in this modularized version of the PRISM
Specification is formal documentation of the new
PAM Namespace of PRISM. This document provides
normative material describing the new elements
created in the PRISM Aggregator Message Namespace.
As a result of this modularization effort, a PAM
Controlled Vocabulary has been developed and is
available with other PRISM Controlled Vocabularies
at http://www.prismstandard.org/vocabularies/1.2/
. The structure and use of PAM are described separately
in Guide to the PRISM Aggregator Document Type
Definition (DTD) V. 1.1. [PAMGUIDE]
About the PRISM Working Group
PRISM, (Publishing Requirements
for Industry Standard Metadata) is an IDEAlliance
(International Digital Enterprise Alliance) Working
Group. The member companies are involved in content
- creation, categorization, management, aggregation
and distribution - both commercially and within
intranet and extranet frameworks. Their interest
in PRISM comes from the need for a common metadata
standard as a basic part of the content infrastructure.
The PRISM Working Group is open to all IDEAlliance
members and includes: Adobe Systems, Inc., Cadmus
Professional Communications, CMP Media, LLC, ,
Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing, Hachette Filipacchi
Media U.S., (HFM), Hearst Magazines, L A Burman
Associates Inc., LexisNexis™, a division of Reed
Elsevier plc., Wolters Kluwer Health a division
of Wolters Kluwer North America, The McGraw-Hill
Companies, Inc., Oracle Corporation, OverDrive,
Inc. Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Inc., Publishing Connections Inc.(PCI), Sheridan
Press, Taxonomy Strategies, Time Inc., and Vodafone
Global Products. To learn more, go to www.prismstandard.org
or www.idealliance.org.
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital
Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership
organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven,
cross-industry solutions for all publishing and
content-related processes by developing standards,
fostering business alliances, and identifying
best practices. IDEAlliance has been a leader
in information technology since 1966 (founded
as Graphic Communications Association) having
fostered the development and adoption of standards
such as ADIS, DISC, GRACoL, ICE, JIFFI, Mail.dat,
papiNet, PRISM, PROSE XML, SPACE XML, SGML, and
XML. Learn more about IDEAlliance at www.idealliance.org.
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