This chapter deals with the fundamental elements of a digital library known as markup and metadata.
The concept is presented in general terms in UML and an implementation is provided in a 3D simulation environment using Automation Markup Language for digital product descriptions.
A web page is a digital document created using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).
If documents are the digital library's basic building blocks, markup and metadata are referred as the basic elements.
This discussion takes the Orlando Project as an example of what can be gained by the customized application of semantic markup language to originally digital materials in order to address some crucial issues raised by large-scale humanities computing work.
The digital media was then assembled into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files and placed on the University of Iowa's Virtual Hospital® digital library at:.
As a control measure they suggest digital signature as used in SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), security gateways, SSL, encryption, hashing.
The Web-to-phone trick works, thanks to Unwired Planet, of Redwood Shores, Calif., whose Up.link program translates data into a form digital phones can understand: HDML, or Handheld Device Markup Language.
These standards include the News Industry Text Format (NITF), the News Markup Language (NewsML), and the venerable Photo Metadata standard (found in digital cameras the world over).
There are several security standard specifications [79] such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), WS-Security, Extensible Access Control Markup (XACML), XML Digital Signature, XML Encryption, Key Management Specification (XKMS), WS-Federation, WS-Secure Conversation, WS-Security Policy and WS-Trust.
