[RP TownTalk] Electronic Documents resolutions

[Lou King]

In addition to adding my Hear! Hear! to Dwight's, let me put on my Nerd hat.

In "Publishing and Archiving Electronic Documents" I suggest that when 
documents are published and archived in HTML format that the HTML 
standards of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) be required (directed).

The objective would be the same as requirements to us standard English.  
By following the standards published by the W3C it assures that HTML 
documents will be correctly interpreted by the largest number of tools 
(browsers).  This would also preclude using proprietary additions to the 
standards, that are only "understood" by one browser and would assure 
that archived documents would be correctly interpreted in the future.

An example from my Ozark past would be "My brother, who is a /flar/ for 
the Army Air Core, gave the /purtiest/ /raid/ /flar/ to Anna May when he 
comed home. She was /fixin'/ biscuits and got /flar/ all over him when 
she kissed him /rail/ hard."

By not following standards, there are some that may not understand why 
Anna May's pa gave her a /whupin /with a /willer/ switch for goin' back 
on her /raisin. /He was afeard when my brother left he would leave a 
/wood's colt/.

Lou

Alice Ewen Walker wrote:
> TownTalkers,
>
> Following up on my earlier post, attached are drafts of two
> resolutions regarding electronic documents that I plan to introduce at
> the council meeting tomorrow.
>
> There could be changes between these and the final versions that I
> introduce, as I may incorporate some incoming suggestions.
>
> The executive summary is:
>
>    1 If a document is produced for a group of citizens at least equal
> to the size of one ward, it should be made available in electronic
> form and archived in electronic form.
>
>    2 Likewise for any documents produced for members of the council.
>
>    3 PDF/A is the town's preferred archival format
>
>    4 None of this applies unless the document is created directly by the town.
>
> The second resolution seeks to make a few key documents available in
> electronic format retroactively to 2000.
>
> Cheers and Happy Labor Day!
>
> Alice
>
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