Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of ISO15926Primer_Metaphor_Web_Browser

Timestamp:

12/29/11 01:32:20 (12 years ago)

Author:

gordonrachar (IP: 75.156.216.35)

Comment:

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ISO15926Primer_Metaphor_Web_Browser

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-In case you don't know what Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is, you can rest assured that you are a part of a very large majority. HTML is the common language of the World Wide Web. Every web page you have seen is written with some variant of it. If everyone involved in plant design, construction, and operations were to use ISO 15926 to exchange information about plant objects, we would have an equivalent to the HTML experience-but between machines.
+In case you don't know what Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is, you can rest assured that you are a part of a very large majority. HTML is the common language of the World Wide Web. Every web page you have seen is written with some variant of it. If everyone involved in plant design, construction, and operations were to use ISO 15926 to exchange information about plant objects, we would have an equivalent to the HTML experience—but between machines.
 
-For instance, if you want to look at the web page of a pump manufacturer you don't need to know anything beyond the web site address of the company. When your browser connects to the web site, it assumes that what it finds will be encoded in HTML. Of course, it will be-if the manufacturer wants to get any business through the web page-because HTML is the standard format of the World Wide Web. In addition, it does not matter which browser you use. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Netscape are all written to understand HTML.
+For instance, if you want to look at the web page of a pump manufacturer you don't need to know anything beyond the web site address of the company. When your browser connects to the web site, it assumes that what it finds will be encoded in HTML. Of course, it will be—if the manufacturer wants to get any business through the web page-because HTML is the standard format of the World Wide Web. In addition, it does not matter which browser you use. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Netscape are all written to understand HTML.
 
 Imagine the hassle if you first had to contact the pump manufacturer and ask for the encoding format, and then instruct your IT folks to write a translator program, before you could access the web site? Of course, you would not do it. And of course the pump manufacturer would not make a web page like this in the first place because no one else would do it either.
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 There is another similarity that may appeal to your geeky side. HTML and ISO 15926 are standards that were developed along similar trajectories. Although the underlying infrastructure that enabled the Web started to form in the last quarter of the twentieth century, most of us only discovered it 20 years ago. At first there was some controversy as we speculated about its possibilities. Some of the ideas caught on and some didn't, but over time "surfing the web" just became part of our lives. Now many of our young people cannot imagine life without it.
 
-Similarly, many people are just now finding out about ISO 15926-even though the standards that led to it first started to appear in the mid twentieth century. As with any new technology, there is some controversy and speculation on its future. However, the demand for the interoperability of information is strong and over time ISO 15926 will work its way into the way we do business.
+Similarly, many people are just now finding out about ISO 15926—even though the standards that led to it first started to appear in the mid twentieth century. As with any new technology, there is some controversy and speculation on its future. However, the demand for the interoperability of information is strong and over time ISO 15926 will work its way into the way we do business.