Standards Through Interoperability? Really?

Thinking The Unthinkable Interoperability Through Open Standards! Really? Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath Email [email_address] UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/cetis-2006/ Acceptable Use Policy Recording/broadcasting of this talk, taking photographs, discussing the content using Blogs, IM, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Resources related to this talk are bookmarked in del.icio.us using the ‘ cetis-2006-conference-unthinkable ' tag

Contents ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why Do We Need Standards? Open Standards Standards Application- Independence Device Independence Avoidance of vendor lock-in Minimise costs Interoperability Long-term preservation Architectural integrity

Open Standards Are Great  … ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Open Standards

… But Don't Always Work  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Open Standards ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Open Standards: an EU View ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Open Standards

What is an Open Standard? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Open Standards ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Note these characteristics do not apply equally to all standards bodies e.g. costs of BSI standards; W3C membership requirements; …

Compliance Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],There is a need to clarify the meaning of must and for an understandable, realistic and reasonable compliance regime Compliance JISC 5/99 programme ~80% of project home pages were not HTML compliant

Is RSS An Open Standard? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],RSS Example

RSS – Governance Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],RSS Example

RSS 1.0 – Roadmap Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],RSS Example

RSS 2.0 – Roadmap Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Note Wikipedia has useful links to the history and politics of RSS "Winer has now decided that the board doesn't exist and never had authority over the RSS specification, even though it has published six revisions from July 2003 to the present. I don't agree, but now that the board's fully public, we're in a position to make his wish a reality." RSS Example

Podcasting ,[object Object],[object Object],<itunes:author>Henry Rzepa</itunes:author> <description>Wiki Workshop</description> … <itunes:category text="Education"> <itunes:category text="Higher Education"/> </itunes:category> <itunes:keywords>Chemistry, … </itunes:keywords> <itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit> ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],RSS Example

RSS – Summary ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],RSS Example

Isn’t Slideshare Good Enough? ,[object Object],[object Object],http://slideshare.net/lisbk/profile ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/ workshops/webmaster-2006/talks/metcalfe/

VRVS vs Skype ,[object Object],[object Object],AP : You should use/promote VRVS: its standards-based, Access Grid, JISC-approved BK : Terrible Interface; users love Skype; … 24 Oct 2006: “At the time, Brian Kelly at UKOLN asked me why I was promoting a tool with such a poor user-interface. Looking back, he was absolutely right”

IT Development vs IT as a Commodity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.amazon.com/ … Note that Slideshare.net uses Amazon CPUs – see the URL when uploading

Standardistas – Good or Bad? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],http://www.molly.com/2006/02/23/ how-to-sniff-out-a-rotten-standardista/ Are standards like New Labour? We thought it was all great in 1997, but we’re now disillusioned – although we sometimes recognise it’s better than the alternative!

Issues For Discussion ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Questions? ,[object Object],What Next?

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