How Do We Do It
Common Data Format
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Choice used to be SGML
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Allows data to be linked
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Allows same data pool to be used for multiple outputs--web, various forms
of print, etc.
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Very successful with large companies-- DOD, Lexis, Boeing, Time, many publishers
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Expensive, complicated
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XML
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successor to HTML
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provides most benefits of SGML without expense
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huge momentum, tools cheap
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LegalXML
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DTD's for case law
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direction all non-profits have decided on
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open standards if careful on version