Standards Activities & Benchmarks

Standards

Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), MPEG-7 (Multimedia content description) and MPEG-21 (multimedia framework), John R. Smith



Extensible Markup Language (XML), Berthold Reinwaldi



Structured Query Language (SQL), Don Chamberlin



The Rule Markup Initiative (RuleML), Asaf Adi



XML XQuery, Don Chamberlin

Benchmarks

NIST TREC Retrieval Evaluation



Transaction Processing Performance Council