At 02:37 +0100 on 02-10-1996, John Williams wrote:
> In article <[log in to unmask]>, Rob Tweed
> <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >>
> >>The WEB/HTML is a technology to view information only.
> >
> >Not true. Whilst it may be true that this was its original intention,
> >high performance fully transactional (read + write) systems are now
> >being developed using web technologies. This is happening very
> >largely because of the dominance of the technology and its cost
> >effectiveness as an architecture for information system development.
> >If you are going to Mednet96 in Brighton in a few weeks time, I think
> >you are going to hear and see quite a lot about this.
>
> Very interesting. Can you enlarge on 'fully transactional (read +
> write) systems'? Are there any accessible sites running this kind of
> system and what SW would one need to access them? I find it difficult
> to picture what exactly would be exchanged in this way and how it would
> be treated by the receiving system. There are all kinds of issues to
> consider when 'trading' information many of which I would have thought
> were independent of the technology. EDI messaging has to do with
> exchanging structured information in such a form that it can be
> incorporated in the receiving system in a way that enables it to keep
> its original (concept plus context) meaning. Am I missing something
> here? How would that be achieved unless, for example, we had universal
> HTML record structures?
The universal HTML record structures are known as SGML - ISO certified,
etc, etc-.
The way many are thinking about the uses of the Internet are promising.
They are on a course which is fundamentally different from the data base
centered way of thinking. It is a static view of the world.
The primary object will become: how can we communicate data with the
attached concepts/meaning? This is a much more active view of the world,
where data bases one way of an other will be neccessary.
Gerard Freriks,huisarts, MD
C. Sterrenburgstr 54
3151JG Hoek van Holland
the Netherlands (31) 174-384296/ Fax: -386249
ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS
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