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Thursday, 17 May 2007

The strategic ACAP project (Automated Content Access Protocol)

Notes on a talk by Mark Bide from the E-Books & E-Content 2007 held at University Central London, 8th May 2007

It is hard to make information available without rules. It is also hard to follow rules if you don't know what they are. No-one tends to read terms and conditions on every website.


Web search technology has had a significant impact society. Partnerships now exist between publishers and search engines, but there are discrepancies in attitude. ACAP aims to help stardardise access.

It is a protocol aimed ar running behind the webpage which will function as bridge in standardising access to e-content.
  • For consumer it means more content as publishers are happy with securities
  • For publishers it means they can deliver more content online
  • Intermediataries - it will do away with different industry hosting platforms

Further information on ACAP

1 comment:

hl67 said...

I wonder how this effects automated content programs like WP Robot. Any ideas?