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Subject: RE: CGM Open TC meeting?
To all interested parties: The DOD community has been doing due diligence and industry monitoring in many areas but this e-mail concerns Technical manuals and drawings. As many of you know, I'm a member of CGMOpen and have been attending the ATA meetings for the past 3 or more years now. I'm either directly involved or peripherally involved in numerous conversion efforts or technical documentation authoring. We have a few projects that are looking at life cycle costs and capabilities. They have been following the work on SVG and the W3C recommendation of that format specification. Numerous vendors claim SVG support and even ISODraw has some output support for this specification. One of the key factors programs are looking at other than the XML implementations is that it has a DOM. With all the recent e-mail traffic it looks like with the cancellation of the TICC week, we have shifted the emphasis of the DOM work to getting ready for the demo in Orlando. I think that might be a good short term goal but not good for bringing home the fact that CGM and webCGM is the format to use for your technical drawings. As a community we need to remember that the DOD and FAA and other larger industries have numerous drawings that need to be converted to vector. Most if not all of the CGM tools are for authoring. Many of the ship, airplanes plant drawings and large architectural drawings are modifications to existing drawings not new drawings. With the shrinking budget dollars we are trying to tie technical documentation with training. Traditionally training has used flashy and animated drawings or videos to aid in the training process. Other questions are we as a community working with displaying CGM or webCGM graphics on a PDA? Additionally has anyone looked into the SCORM work and bring CGM into the fold. We also need to be able to show that the creation and use of CGM tools is cost effective. Any help in answering the above questions and then the basic question of CGM verses SVG would be very helpful. thanks, harry -----Original Message----- From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 12:54 PM To: dieter@itedo.com; cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: CGM Open TC meeting? Wed 9/26 works for me. Don, Forrest, Ulrich, Kevin -- can you do it Wednesday? Please answer ASAP so that we can set time and arrange facility. I will propose a time: 11am EDT (5pm Germany, 9am MDT, 8am PDT). Oh, and about volunteering to draft a paragraph, a strawman scenario (Abstract). It doesn't have to be one of the 5 participating vendors, but I thought one of you might have some hot ideas about what we should do. Anyone? -Lofton. At 06:22 PM 9/20/01 +0200, Dieter Weidenbrueck wrote: >Lofton, > >I'll be travelling in the US starting Thu 9/27 through Oct 6. It will be >difficult for me to participate in a telecon during that timeframe. I >suggest that we do it on Wednesday if possible. > >Dieter > >-----Original Message----- >From: Lofton Henderson [mailto:lofton@rockynet.com] >Sent: Donnerstag, 20. September 2001 18:16 >To: cgmopen-members@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: RE: CGM Open TC meeting? > > >It seems clear that there will be no face-to-face meetings. > >We must proceed with Vendor Offering planning. These vendors have said >they will participate: > >Auto-trol >Ematek >ITEDO >Larson Software >SDI > >Two questions: > >1. Can each of you five participate in a 1-hour teleconference next >Thursday, 9/27? > >2. Will someone volunteer to draft a brief strawman scenario (Abstract) >before then? > >The scenario should probably involve the WebCGM test suite, probably >involve some real-world types of files in addition, for example like the >Granada stuff. There will be a couple of simultaneous system projectors >available, so people could display stuff pair-wise. We're emphasizing >standard-based products, interoperability based on WebCGM, and the fact >that WebCGM-based solutions are available, here and now. > >Probably the last is a good theme or perspective -- here is a bunch of >standards-based technology and products that works, interoperates, and is >available now to solve the web graphics problems in WebCGM's domain. > >As I said, volunteer? > >-Lofton. > >******************* >Lofton Henderson >1919 Fourteenth St., #604 >Boulder, CO 80302 > >Phone: 303-449-8728 >Email: lofton@rockynet.com >******************* > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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