Re: [cgmopen-members] resources/products on web site

["Bruce L. Garner" <brucegar@pacbell.net>]

Resources/Products Listing on CGM Open Web Site

As previously discussed, it is proposed that the CGM Open Web site list
members' products with hyperlinks to members Web sites.  The following
information would be presented

1. product name
2. hyperlink to web site (or specific pages)
3. brief descriptive phrase (skip for now)
4. classification (plug-in viewer, standalone viewer, print driver,
editor, ...)

Since I agreed to collect information for these listings, I now ask for
real data to work with. I will put together a proposal from the data
that I receive. 

For now, please submit items 1, 2 and 4. I will attempt to put the data
in a trial format for posting. As a preliminary assumption, plan for a
link from each product to your own Web page or site.  I envision two
listings; an alphabetical listing by vendor and a second alphabetical
listing by product category.  If it is decided that item 3, a
descriptive phrase, be given for each product or service, I will request
and add that later. 

For each product or service that you want listed, please give
	
	Company Name
	Product Name or Service (without version numbers) 
	Product or service category
		Note:  A product or service may have one or more categories.   
 	See list of suggested categories below.
	Link to your Web site or to a specific product page on your Web site. 
		Note:   A hyperlink to a Vendor home page will require less
maintenance than a link
			to pages for specific products. 

This information will support 

Lofton Henderson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Bruce Garner has agreed to help collect and organize the
> information.  Thanks Bruce!
> 
> We have had some preliminary discussion about structure and layout, and
> will come back later with more details. One comment we got raises a
> preliminary issue.  Should product information be "generic" or "specific"?
> 
> Generic:
> ------
> Company XYZ:
>      WebCGM plugin,
>      CGM filters,
>      etc.
> Company ABC
>      CGM generator toolkit
>      CGM printer driver
> 
> Specific:
> ------
> Company XYZ
>     ViewItGood (TM) -- WebCGM plugin viewer
>     ConvertEverything (TM) -- bi-directional filters between CGM and DXF,
> PDF, ...
> Company ABC
>      etc...
> 
> The argument against "specific" was:  too hard to maintain.
> 
> We're thinking of a "hybrid", along these lines:  first page is more
> "generic"; it points off to per-vendor, more specific pages, which point
> off to the real detailed information on vendor web site.  So something like:
> 
> cgmopen.org/Resources points to ../Resources/CGMproducts/, which contains:
> 
> -- A tabular or bullet style organized by product type/classification;
> -- and a tabular or bullet style organized by company/vendor.
> 
> These are generic and point off to vendor-specific pages which can contain
> product names, classification, brief description (one sentence max?), and
> hyperlinks to vendor Web sites.  Furthermore,
> 
> 1.) it would make sense to make the vendor-specific pages the
> responsibility of the vendors to keep up to date, and we'd have something
> like quarterly update opportunities (this controls the maintenance load
> somewhat);
> 
> 2.) we would enforce "good taste, non-compete" presentation rules for those
> pages.  I think we should avoid any vendor-against-vendor marketing, or too
> much product detail.  In fact, we might design and agree on a common
> template for those pages.
> 
> What do you think about this issue, and the conceptual design/organization?
> 
> Regards,
> -Lofton.
> 
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a "specific" listing as discussed in Lofton's message of Feb. 8th. 

Company XYZ
     ViewItGood (TM) -- WebCGM plug-in viewer
     ConvertEverything (TM) -- bi-directional filters between CGM and
DXF,  PDF, ...
Company ABC
     BigDraw (TM) - Graphics montage
     RiteYurHartOut (TM) - Word processor with CGM import
     etc...

Bruce

Suggested categories:   (Note: Additions and suggestions welcome) 

	CGM Generators
	Mapping graphics
		Presentation graphics
		Technical illustration graphics
		Charting graphics
		Graphics montage
	CGM generator libraries
	CAD with CGM export

	CGM Interpreters
	CGM conversion/translation
		CGM viewer
	CGM interpreter libraries
	CGM printer driver
	WebCGM plug-in viewer
	Word processor with CGM import
	
	CGM Editors (Both interpret and generate CGMs)
	CGM graphic editor
		CAD with CGM import/export
	Mapping graphics with CGM import/export
		Presentation graphics with CGM import/export
		Technical illustration graphics with CGM import/export
		Graphics montage with CGM import/export

CGM Analysis
	CGM analysis tool
		CGM test suite

CGM Translation
	Image scanner (Vector conversion: Raster to CGM) 
		Image conversion (Raster to CGM with tiled raster)
		Format conversion (IGES > CGM; CGM > PDF; CGM <> DXF; ... .)

	Services
		Consulting
		Custom CGM applications

	Miscellaneous
	Redliner
		CGM clip art