Web Services Directory

In 1997, PureEdge released ICS and in 1998, published XFDL (Extensible Forms Description Language), the first XML protocol for enforceable documents on the Internet. Co-authored by PureEdge and Tim Bray, XFDL was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the first to be acknowledged by the W3C for enforceable XML documents. Since its submission, XFDL has played an important role in the W3C's ongoing work on secure XML and XHTML.

The XML Résumé Library is an XML and XSL based system for marking up, adding metadata to, and formatting résumés and curricula vitae.

The Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML encoding for the transport and storage of geographic information, including both the geometry and properties of geographic features. This specification defines the mechanisms and syntax that GML uses to encode geographic information in XML. It is anticipated that GML will make a significant impact on the ability of organizations to share geographic information with one another, and to enable linked geographic datasets.

XML Rule Interlingua for Agent Communication, based on Courteous/Ordinary Logic Programs

VIML (Virtual Instruments Markup Language) is DTD for describing location, protocol and device information for a network of virtual instrumentation devices and/or systems. It has been submitted to xml.org and is currently under development.

The Business Process Management Initiative aims to drive standards which will create better integration of business processes that span multiple applications, corporate departments, and business partners, behind the firewall and over the Internet.

cXML is a streamlined protocol intended for consistent communication of business documents between procurement applications, e-commerce hubs and suppliers. Claimed to be the most widely adopted B2B protocol cXML supports catalogue content and supplier descriptions, PunchOut (of a few varieties), Master Agreement, Purchase Order (create, edit and delete), Order Confirmation, Ship Notice, Invoice and various additional synchronization and integration transactions.

VCML is a set of industry-specific vocabularies, transactions, elements, and guidelines that support supply and demand chain collaboration within and across vertical industries. VCML is based-upon a centralized library of reusable components used to build industry-specific vocabularies. Specialized, industry-specific markup language vocabularies are not separate vocabularies, but are instead subsets of the VCML superset. The vocabulary approach aims to support greater collaboration within industries regardless of national boundaries and languages.

PetroXML is a set of XML schemas developed by Transzap, Inc. This is the oil industry's first set of XML schemas specifically designed to empower industry participants in end-to-end automation of oil field operations. The new set of schemas represent a starting point for the building of a business-to-business e-commerce community that spans many oil companies and their vendors.

GEML, an Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based tag set, was developed by Rosetta Inpharmatics and others in the GEML community to provide a standard method of exchanging gene expression data along with the associated gene and experiment annotation. The GEML community consists of a group of organizations dedicated to guiding the future development of GEML and integrating support for this format into their products and services

papiNet is the global initiative to develop, maintain and promote the implementation of standard electronic transaction standards to facilitate the flow of information and facilitate computer to computer communications among all parties engaged in the buying, selling, and distribution of forest, paper and wood products. papiNet have developed a DTD for the exchange of information in the paper supply chain.

JDF is a comprehensive XML-based file format/proposed industry standard for end-to-end job ticket specifications combined with a message description standard and message interchange protocol. Job Definition Format supplies a means for printing businesses to streamline the process of producing printed material.

A US Government initiative to facilitate the efficient and effective use of XML through cooperative efforts among government agencies, including partnerships with commercial and industrial organizations. Applies to the US Government only.

OASIS home page for the Universal Business Language project. UBL aims to provide a standard library of XML business documents (purchase orders, invoices, etc) by modifying an already existing library of XML schemas to incorporate the best features of other existing XML business libraries. UBL is intended to become an international standard for electronic commerce freely available to everyone without licensing or other fees.

The Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol is a messaging standard developed specifically for the real-time electronic exchange of securities transactions.

BannerML stands for Banner Mark-up Language. BannerML is a new XML-based language, proposed by Cogitum LC, for attaching additional text information to Internet banners. This language would mesh perfectly with Cogitum’s Image Co-Tracker, a personal software product for clipping and storing banners on the user’s computer.

Central resource site for the WebDAV community. WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

You guessed it. An XML schema for recipes, RecipeML. Definition, downloads and examples.

PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) is an extensible XML metadata standard for syndicating, aggregating, post-processing and multi-purposing content from magazines, news, catalogs, books and mainstream journals.

CGM Open developed and currently maintains WebCGM, an application of the ISO-standard Computer Graphics Metafile for electronic documents. WebCGM was developed in collaboration with the W3C, with support from the European Commission Esprit project. An "intelligent graphics" profile, WebCGM includes both graphical and non-graphical content, allowing object hierarchies, link specifications and layer definitions.

XML Schemas express shared vocabularies and allow machines to carry out rules made by people. They provide a means for defining the structure, content and semantics of XML documents.

The Astronomical Instrument Markup Language (AIML) is a domain-specific implementation of the more generalized Instrument Markup Language (IML). Both AIML and IML are vocabularies based on the W3C standard, the Extensible Markup Language (XML). NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Century Computing, a division of AppNet, Inc., are developing AIML to command and control astronomical instruments. Our software architecture combines the platform-independent processing capabilities of Java with the power of XML. A key aspect of the object-oriented architecture, implemented in Java, involves software that is driven by the AIML instrument description. The initial effort is targeted at the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne observatory aboard a Boeing 747. Eventually our techniques will enable trusted astronomers from around the world to easily access infrared instruments (e.g., telescopes, cameras, and spectrometers) located in a variety of remote, inhospitable environments.

FpML (Financial products Markup Language) is a new protocol to enable e-commerce activities in the field of financial derivatives. The FpML.org web site serves as the focal point for all aspects of the FpML standard development effort, including a repository for all specification documents.

Guideline XML (gXML) is an open specification designed to facilitate the exchange of e-commerce guidelines using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Guidelines are used to define business documents such as purchase orders, catalog requests and invoices.

Home site of eXtensible Business Reporting Language, formerly XFRML, is an open specification which uses XML-based data tags to describe financial statements for both public and private companies.