Electronic revolution and standardization

The future electronic information market is arising based on publishing, electronics and communications industries merging together. Multimedia is supported by a very active standardization in the arena of information content coding and information structure coding for the purpose of electronic data interchange. In order to cope with the dramatic changes in the information industry, traditional standardization is moving to a more top-down, generic, and crossfields approach. The Automation in Information and documentation standardization is still specific adaptation of new ideas to classical librarianship and information retrieval services.
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