Five years that formed the digital library as we know it: 1997-2001
Sigfrid Lundberg's Stuff 2009-08-24
I sat there looking up references for a text. Then I realized that there were these five years, 1997-2001. They were decisive for the coming nine to ten years digital library development. For the fun of I looked up some events that occured during these five years
| year | event |
| February 1998 | XML became recommendation |
| 1998 | Dublin Core Metadata for Resource Discovery published as RFC 2413 |
| 1998 | Encoded Archival Description tag lib published |
| January 1999 | the University of Virginia and the University of Bergen (Norway) proposes the formation of TEI consortium. |
| 22 February 1999 | RDF model and Syntax specification appeared |
| 16 November 1999 | XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation |
| January 2001 | OAI-PMH version 1.0 |
| February, 2001 | The development of METS starts |
Almost all of these events were triggered by XML. If I remember correctly, We released S:t Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library 2001 which included my first serious XSLT scripting, but before that I made some serious work using perl and the expat XML parser.
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