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PRISM V1.3 Released for Comment
Updated PRISM Specification
Keeps Pace with New Information Technologies
Alexandria, VA - July 18, 2005
- PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry
Standard Metadata), an IDEAlliance Working Group,
today announces the availability of the Draft
PRISM 1.3 Specifications and requests your comments.
In 1999, IDEAlliance founded the PRISM Working
Group. Since that time the PRISM metadata framework
has been established and today is being broadly
implemented. In the fall of 2004, IDEAlliance
designated PRISM as the architecture for all of
its new publishing metadata specifications. In
the fall of 2004, an expedited effort to modularize
the specification began so that the development
of new PRISM metadata sets could be more easily
advanced in 2005. The initial release of the modularized
PRISM Documentation Package, the PRISM 1.2 Specification,
was released in February 2005.
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. Because we anticipate the development
of new metadata vocabularies to be built upon
the PRISM foundation, we have updated PRISM to
reflect the newest version of XML and advances
in Dublin Core, strengthened the documentation
and examples of RDF/XML and reviewed the specification
to assure the compatibility of PRISM with Adobe
System's Extensible Metadata Platform, XMP, a
leading toolset for embedding metadata in digital
assets.
The PRISM Working Group encourages all interested
parties to download the new PRISM 1.3 Documentation
Set, review it, and provide comments during the
45 day industry review period. The PRISM 1.3 Specifications
are available at:
http://www.prismstandard.org/specifications/13comment/PRISMV13comment.zip
Comments may be sent to info@prismstandard.org.
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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