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- Some information was recently sent to the IETF list re Teledoc - which
- is the International Telecommunication Union's Document Delivery
- Project.
-
- The following taken from a doc. on their project may be of interest
- to this group:
-
-
- " Fortuitously, after the project was started in the beginning of
- 1992, a new International Standard was published that provided a
- conceptual model for the document reference system. This was the
- International Organization for Standardization's (ISO)) Document
- Filing and Retrieval Standard (ISO 10166) more commonly known as
- DFR. To quote from the introduction of this standard:
-
- "The Document Filing and Retrieval (DFR) application
- provides the capability for large capacity non-volatile
- document storage to multiple users in a distributed office
- system..
-
- Documents have associated attributes, to facilitate and
- control retrieval. Use of these attributes according to
- given algorithms will enable documents in the document
- storage to be browsed, retrieved, managed and deleted in a
- variety of ways. Access control protects documents from
- unauthorized operations. Documents can be stored in nested
- groups. With specific attributes a document can be
- designated a version of another document. Single documents,
- references or groups can be moved from one group into
- another group. Enumeration of groups, identification by
- other attributes besides names, identification by conditions
- over attributes, search for documents meeting search
- criteria, concurrent access to the same documents, reference
- or group of documents are further functions provided by this
- standard for the user requirements in an office
- environment."
- "
-
- Then later:
-
-
- " Support for "conceptual document" which links together multiple
- stored format versions of the same document. For example, one
- conceptual document may have Word for Windows, Rich Text Format,
- ODIF, and Postscript stored representations.
-
- DFR Unique Permanent Identifiers (UPIs) for groups and documents
- is key value generated by the SQL database. The project team
- will follow evolution in this area (discussions by Internet
- Engineering Task Force group on Network Information Resources,
- ISBN's - ISO DIS 2018)."
-
-
- (Circular reference there......!)
-
- --Jill
-
-