VisualSchemas For papiNet

papiNet has standards for paper and forest industry. VisualSchema is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Schemas for papiNet XML Schema standards.
I am going to soon write up how exactly the Visual Schema are created in more detail later on. But the thing to note is that the UI is all pre-generated static html [...]

Visual Schemas For NewsML

NewsML is “an XML-based standard to represent and manage news throughout its lifecycle, including production, interchange, and consumer use”.
VisualSchema is pleased to announce Visual Schemas For NewsML.

WordPress Blog Sidebar Widgets Arrangement

I just changed the layout of this blog and it was quite a bit of dilemma as to how to organize the various widgets. Finally, came up with the following layout strategy.

The idea is, the widgets have been separated into two categories, one that present timeline of the blog posts and the other that presents [...]

Visual Schemas For eBay Web Services

eBay claims 5.7 billion web service calls a month! I wouldn’t be surprised that in the future, the number of total web service calls to be more than the number of manual page views.
While people visit the web and create the web traffic to mostly view content (including email which is a major contributor), using [...]

Visual Schemas For E-Government Standards

Who knew that even whitehouse had xml standards! At
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/e-5-documents.html
I found
“Exhibit 300 Schema, Version 3.02 (for FY08)
This document is used to describe and define the type of content including the entities, attributes, elements and notation used for the submission of Exhibit 300s for the FY08 budget cycle.”
The schema definition is published for every year’s budget [...]

Visual Schemas For PBCore

The Public Broadcast Metadata Dictionary Project has a schema defined for exchanging the data related to the Public Broadcast industry. VisualSchema.com is pleased to offer Visual Schemas for PBCore.

Visual Schemas For EDGAR (SEC Filings)

EDGAR, which stands for Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, is from sec.gov and provides XML standards for the SEC filing documents.
VisualSchema is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Schemas for EDGAR SEC filing XML Schemas.
Unlike most standards published as Visual Schemas so far, each of the EDGAR schemas have a separate version. In [...]

Visual Schemas For HR-XML

HR-XML is creating open standards in the area of HCM (Human Capital Management) similar to what OAGIS did for SCM (Supply Chain Management), creating XML Schema based open standards for BODs (Business Object Documents). What’s more, in their 3.0 draft version, they have started to structure their schemas inline with OAGIS, by arranging them as [...]

Visual Schemas For PIDX

Looking at api.org, it made me think it’s a website meant for developers and focused on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Then, I came to know it’s actually “American Petroleum Institute”. They have XML Standards called PIDX (Petroleum Industry Data Exchange). VisualSchema.com is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Schemas For PIDX XML Schemas.
The fact [...]

One Specification, Many Standards, Different Designs

A single XML Schema specification is used in many open standards using different design choices. In this VisualSchema.com blog, along with announcing the availability of a specific standard as a Visual Schema, any design choice specific to the particular standard will be briefly discussed. So far two such choices have been discussed, XML Schema: Is [...]