Fwd: FW: Information Technology News Update: W3C and OASIS Jointly Issue WebCGM 2.0

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

Here is some more publicity...

>From: "Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>
>To: "'Lofton Henderson'" <lofton@rockynet.com>
>Subject: FW: Information Technology News Update: W3C and OASIS Jointly 
>Issue WebCGM 2.0
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:25:55 -0500
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>W3C and OASIS have published WebCGM 2.0, a new industry standard for
>technical illustrations in electronic documents. WebCGM, which is
>widely deployed in the defense, aviation, architecture, and
>transportation industries, has reached new levels of interoperability
>thanks to this joint effort between OASIS and W3C. Computer Graphics
>Metafile, or CGM, is an ISO standard for a tree-structured, binary
>graphics format that has been adopted especially by the technical
>industries (defense, aviation, transportation, etc) for technical
>illustration in electronic documents. As the Web emerged as the
>environment for sharing and creating documents, it became apparent that
>the best way to use CGM on the Web needed to be clarified, particularly
>for interactivity such as hyperlinks and hotspots. 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 also builds upon
>and extends the graphical and intelligent content of WebCGM 1.0. 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. <a
>href="http://www.oasis-open.org";>http://www.oasis-open.org</a>, <a
>href="http://www.w3.org/";>http://www.w3.org/</a>
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