RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Request for approval of CS and OS processing

["Mary McRae" <marypmcrae@gmail.com>]

Hi Dave,

  The ballot is now set up and will open shortly:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/cgmo-webcgm/ballot.php?id=1143 

Regards,

Mary


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cruikshank, David W [mailto:david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com] 
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 4:37 PM
> To: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
> Cc: CGM Open WebCGM TC
> Subject: [cgmo-webcgm] Request for approval of CS and OS processing
> 
> Mary,
> 
> The WebCGM TC would like to request a ballot to approve 
> WebCGM 2.0 as a CS and resquest transition into the OS 
> process for the specification.
> 
> The candiate CS is located at
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/webcgm/v2.0/PR3R01/webcgm-v2.0-index.html
> with a PDF version at
> http://docs.oasis-open.org/webcgm/v2.0/PR3R01/webcgm-v2.0.pdf.
> 
> Background
> 
> Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is an ISO standard, defined 
> by ISO/IEC 8632:1999, for the interchange of 2D vector and 
> mixed vector/raster graphics. WebCGM is a profile of CGM, 
> which adds Web linking and is optimized for Web applications 
> in technical illustration, electronic documentation, 
> geophysical data visualization, and similar fields. First published
> (1.0) in 1999 and followed by a
> second (errata) release in 2001, WebCGM unifies potentially 
> diverse approaches to CGM utilization in Web document 
> applications. It therefore represents a significant 
> interoperability agreement amongst major users and 
> implementers of the ISO CGM standard.
> 
> WebCGM 2.0 adds a DOM (API) specification for programmatic 
> access to WebCGM objects, and a specification of an XML 
> Companion File (XCF) architecture, for externalization of 
> non-graphical metadata. WebCGM 2.0, in addition, builds upon 
> and extends the graphical and intelligent content of WebCGM 
> 1.0, delivering functionality that was forecast for WebCGM 
> 1.0, but was postponed in order to get the standard and its 
> implementations to users expeditiously.
> 
> The design criteria for WebCGM aim at a balance between 
> graphical expressive power on the one hand, and simplicity 
> and implementability on the other. A small but powerful set 
> of standardized metadata elements supports the 
> functionalities of hyperlinking and document navigation, 
> picture structuring and layering, and enabling search and 
> query of WebCGM picture content.
> 
> Status
> 
> WebCGM 2.0 completed a public review which was announced on 
> Oct 20, 2006
> (http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/cgmo-webcgm/200610/msg00
> 020.html)
> in OASIS and ended on Nov 4, 2006.  No comments were received.
> 
> WebCGM 2.0 is being is currently processed in parallel within 
> the W3C as a result of work carried out by the WebCGM WG in 
> that organization (http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/WG/).  
> It is currently a Proposed Recommendation in the W3C.  WebCGM 
> 2.0 has been implemented by several vendors and the 
> implementation report is available at 
> http://www.w3.org/2006/Graphics/WebCGM/implementation-report.html.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave Cruikshank
> Chair, WebCGM TC
> Technical Fellow - Graphics/Digital Data Interchange Boeing 
> Commercial Airplane 206.544.3560, fax 206.662.3734 
> david.w.cruikshank@boeing.com
>