In the past, sponsors submitting to FDA were required to submit a PDF describing their submission datasets. As we all know PDF is great for viewing on-screen or printing, but the information inside ...

Define-XML is the metadata that describes the content and formatting of submission datasets and the case report tabulation data. It’s needed to help reviewers understand the data they are reviewing.

Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation and efficiencies in information systems, spawning a powerful new service-driven computer industry. For example, software might be written ...

What if every bit of data in every computer included instructions about its content that would allow any other computer to interact with it? Such interoperability could unleash amazing new automation ...

I hear it’s going to cure cancer,” says Tim Bray, its cocreator. “It’s going to do my dishes, I hear,” says Anne-Marie Keane, Staples’ vice president of B2B e-commerce. Behind the flip jokes lies ...