After two decades of repository development, some conclusions may be drawn as
to which type of repository and what kind of service best supports digital
scholarly communication, and thus the production of new knowledge. Four types
of publication repository may be distinguished, namely the subject-based
repository, research repository, national repository system and institutional
repository. Two important shifts in the role of repositories may be noted. With
regard to content, a well-defined and high quality corpus is essential.

In this chapter we present the main issues in representing machine readable
dictionaries in XML, and in particular according to the Text Encoding
Dictionary (TEI) guidelines.

The goal of this paper is two-fold: to present an abstract data model for
linguistic annotations and its implementation using XML, RDF and related
standards; and to outline the work of a newly formed committee of the
International Standards Organization (ISO), ISO/TC 37/SC 4 Language Resource
Management, which will use this work as its starting point.

Multimodal interfaces, combining the use of speech, graphics, gestures, and
facial expressions in input and output, promise to provide new possibilities to
deal with information in more effective and efficient ways, supporting for
instance: - the understanding of possibly imprecise, partial or ambiguous
multimodal input; - the generation of coordinated, cohesive, and coherent
multimodal presentations; - the management of multimodal interaction (e.g.,
task completion, adapting the interface, error prevention) by representing and
exploiting models of the user, the domain, the task, the intera

It is widely recognized that the proliferation of annotation schemes runs
counter to the need to re-use language resources, and that standards for
linguistic annotation are becoming increasingly mandatory. To answer this need,
we have developed a framework comprised of an abstract model for a variety of
different annotation types (e.g., morpho-syntactic tagging, syntactic
annotation, co-reference annotation, etc.), which can be instantiated in
different ways depending on the annotator's approach and goals.

Providing on-line services on the Internet will require the definition of
flexible interfaces that are capable of adapting to the user's characteristics.
This is all the more important in the context of medical applications like home
monitoring, where no two patients have the same medical profile. Still, the
problem is not limited to the capacity of defining generic interfaces, as has
been made possible by UIML, but also to define the underlying information
structures from which these may be generated.

This paper presents a general xml-based distributed software architecture in
the aim of accessing and sharing resources in an opened client/server
environment. The paper is organized as follows : First, we introduce the idea
of a "General Distributed Software Architecture". Second, we describe the
general framework in which this architecture is used. Third, we describe the
process of information exchange and we introduce some technical issues involved
in the implementation of the proposed architecture.