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2. Description of Web resources
Without going into a detailed description of the Web, it may be useful, for the understanding of what follows, to recall how the Web works. The Web can be seen as a network enabling the exchange of information based on :
a resource identification mechanism (URIs): a "resource" refers to all or part of a Web page, whether text, image or sound;
resource representation formats (XHTML, XML) and encoding formats (Unicode): the universality of the Web, open to all languages and cultures, requires support for different character encodings, leading to the adoption of Unicode;
a resource exchange mechanism: several communication protocols can be used, depending on whether HTML documents (HTTP: HypertText Transfer Protocol), files (FTP: File Transfer Protocol) or messages (SMTP: Simple...
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References
Standardization
- Information et documentation. Format pour l'échange d'information. (MARC) - ISO 2709:1996 - 8-96
- Traitement de l'information. Systèmes bureautiques. Langage normalisé de balisage généralisé (SGML) (rectificatifs en 1996 et 1999) - ISO 8879:1986 - 10-86
- Systèmes de transfert des informations et données spatiales. Système ouvert d'archivage d'information. Modèle de référence (OAI-PMH) - ISO 14721:2003 - 3-03 ...
Organizations
American Memory
DAML http://www.daml.org
DC, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
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