[NTG-context] OT: specifications and reality

[NTG-context] OT: specifications and reality

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Hi,

since Hans often refers to bad and changing “standards” (e.g. PDF, 
MathML, ePub…) and Taco told us about the mess of RTF: You’re not alone.

There’s the ONIX[1] XML standard for publication data, prominently used 
by the monopolist VLB (Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher, German catalogue 
of books in print).

A friend and I had the idea of an open book catalogue (for all 
publishers and bookshops that want to participate), and they’re setting 
up a proof of concept. Just got a message:

* The examples from the ONIX homepage have errors if you check against 
their “strict” schemas.
* The catalogue of our publishing house, exported as ONIX from VLB, has 
errors when checked against the “not strict” schema, i.e. VLB generates 
faulty data.

Beautiful standards…

Hraban

[1] https://www.editeur.org/83/Overview/
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