The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Web Services and Practices working group has completed NISO RP 2006-01, Best Practices for Designing Web Services in the Library Context. This new Recommend Practice publication covers the following areas: HTTP caching, filtering of user input, reuse of output formats, security, and throttling. The document also describes typical output formats used in web services DTD, XML schema, RDF, Relax NG, and DSD...This Recommended Practice publication is the first to be released under NISO's new RP designation. These documents are intended to provide guidance in emerging areas where formalized standards may inhibit innovation. "The creation of the RP Series is part of NISO's larger strategy to develop a more robust and flexible standards development process," said Todd Carpenter, NISO's Managing Director. NISO will also be reassigning several existing documents to this new designation.
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