New and Emerging Specs & Standards (January 2025)
ISO/IEC 19566-10:2024 – Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information
— Information technology — JPEG Systems Part 10: Reference software
Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29
“This document specifies a reference software implementation of ISO/IEC 19566-5. The reference software is accompanied with a reference dataset which provides an extensive list of the various JUMBF data structures specified in ISO/IEC 19566-5.”
ISO 14199:2024 – Health informatics — Information models — Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Model
Technical Committee: ISO/TC 215
“The Biomedical Research Integrated Domain Group (BRIDG) Model is a collaborative effort engaging stakeholders from the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), the HL7 BRIDG Work Group, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Technical Committee on health informatics, TC 215. The BRIDG model was developed to closely integrate medical research information with healthcare, as well as integrate information within medical research. Clinical research data processes use a variety of meanings, formats, and data types that inhibit the ability and potential to share, integrate, and disseminate clinical research data, thus slowing and, in many cases, ending promising drug discovery and development processes. Vast bodies of medical knowledge data either do not exist in an electronic format that is useful for today's dynamic decision support systems or are electronic but are locked into discrete proprietary systems. Once freed, information that is locked away in static documents and discrete databases can flow through the processes of medical research. In an ideal world, critical data can be accessed, read, and aggregated by any tool at any point in the process. The tools would become the effective means of communication crossing all the existing boundaries and would enable automation of many procedures that currently take place manually. Removing the time-consuming procedure of translating and transcribing data contained in dissimilar and proprietary information stores would allow scientists to focus on science and innovation. For this to become reality, medical research data must be machine-readable and semantically interoperable.”
XLIFF v2.2 CSD02 is Now Available for Public Review [OASIS]
“Comment Period Ends - January 27th. OASIS and the XLIFF TC are pleased to announce that XLIFF v2.2 CSD02 is now available for public review and comment. This is a 2 part specification which defines Version 2.2 of the XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF). The purpose of this vocabulary is to store localizable data and carry it from one step of the localization process to the other, while allowing interoperability between and among tools.”
W3C Receives Ford Foundation Core Funding toward Development of Web Accessibility Work [W3C]
“The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has received US$ 660,037 in core funding from the Ford Foundation via their Technology and Society program, to provide core support through July 2026 to W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) work developing web accessibility standards, guidelines, and implementation resources to support access for people with disabilities.”
Updated Drafts for Review: W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 [W3C]
“The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group updated the following drafts: Explainer for WCAG 3 Draft provides background information and describes the structure of the WCAG 3 Draft. We suggest reading the Explainer before reading WCAG 3; W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3.0 Working Draft includes potential guidelines and requirements that we are exploring. This document will explain how to make the web more accessible to people with disabilities. WCAG 3 applies to web content, apps, tools, publishing, and emerging technologies on the web.”
Metadata Schema Assessment Framework Now Available [ALA Core]
“The ALA Core Metadata Standards Committee has developed a rubric to help information professionals evaluate metadata schemas in order to select one that would best fit the needs of a given project. The first official version of the Metadata Schema Assessment Framework is now available via the ALA Institutional Repository.”
