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Press Releases Lumeria
Announces DTD.com, a Powerful New Site and Tool for XML Developer November 5, 1999 (Berkeley, CA) - Lumeria Inc., the world's first infomediary incubator, today announced the launch of DTD.com, a ground-breaking site for web software developers that combines a web repository for DTDs (document type definitions) based on XML with a web-based tool for editing and creating DTDs. XML is the cutting-edge successor that is expected to eventually supplant HTML as the lingua franca of the web. Although XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, offers many advantages over the more commonly used HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, there is no standard way for identifying the kind of information contained in XML applications. DTDs provide information about the specific tags used for identifying particular information in an XML application, such as fare and departure times in an airline schedule. DTD.com provides the XML community with a free knowledge repository -- called the DTDWarehouse™ -- for storing and sharing DTDs and information about each DTD. DTD.com also provides developers a free web-based application, called the DTDFactory™, which lets XML developers mine the data in the DTDWarehouse and then create their own DTDs. Developers can upload their own DTDs to the DTDWarehouse for use in the system and can also submit either entire DTDs or suggested tags for DTDs. DTD.com will then aggregate these DTDs or tags and submit them for approval by the appropriate standards committees. DTD.com addresses the potential fragmentation of XML that is likely to occur if there is a lack of coordination or standardization of tags in XML. DTD.com resolves this problem by creating a repository for developers to share DTDs and their knowledge about them. DTD.com has stocked the DTDWarehouse by compiling over 152 DTDs for XML applications, covering a wide range of subjects, from mathematics to science, government, education, and personal profiling. In fact, Lumeria is the creator of a new proposed standard for personal profiling called the Profile Markup Language (PML) -- an extremely rich profile description and exchange platform, which is based on XML. Setting a New Internet Profiling Standard PML is an open source, industry-driven, XML-based collection of standards for defining profile data. At the heart of PML is the PML DTD – the set of rules by which PML documents are created and interpreted. Lumeria created PML in a drive to initiate an industry-wide movement to enable the flow of profile information across platforms and applications, and thereby save both consumers and businesses time and money. By freely giving away PML to all developers and by setting up a database of XML DTDs by subject, Lumeria hopes to encourage the adoption of XML, as well as PML. PML is compatible with Lumeria's SuperProfile™ Identity Management system. Lumeria's goal in this initiative is to provide a next-generation profiling standard for the Internet that can help create a more personal, custom, and trusted web environment. About Lumeria Lumeria is an Internet incubator focused on the emerging infomediary market. Lumeria provides core technologies, business strategies, marketing services, and other incubation services for the companies it spins off. Lumeria's other spin-offs are Bookmark City (identity-based sharing of people's knowledge of the web) and SafeDisk (identity-based sharing of non-web materials, such as files, content, and software). Privately financed, Lumeria was founded in January 1998 by veteran computer magazine editor, author, and consultant Fred Davis and is based in Berkeley, California. Lumeria's investors include Ted Waitt, founder and chairman of Gateway; Louis Rossetto, founder of Wired; Dick Fredericks, who has recently been nominated to the post of U. S. Ambassador to Switzerland; and Altamira, a major Canadian investment firm. The company can be reached via its Web site at www.lumeria.com. If you are interested in receiving additional press materials, please contact press@dtd.com. If you would like to contribute, host or partner with dtd.com, please contact administrator@dtd.com. |
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