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Subject: RE: Notes from September 9th Teleconference
September 9, 2003: Notes from the EM GIS SC Conference Call In attendance: Carl, Rex, Art, Eliot, Tom M., Gary H. There will not be a GIS SC Conference call on the
14th of October. The majority of the discussion focused on the EM
Symbology requirements document. The following guidance was
provided: ·
Separate requirements into 2 bins: art work and
interoperability. ·
There is one crossover requirement that comes to mind:
Accessibility requirements for screen readers which implies a requirement to
have access to the symbols associated database
record. ·
Start with a minimum set of requirements. There will be
both a high priority and a lower priority set of
requirements. ·
Agreed with suggestion that a couple more use cases would
be good to have in the document. Rex volunteered to provide the one being
developed for the Conference demonstration. ·
There was agreement that some level of intelligence needs
to be associated with a symbol. A purely “dumb” symbol has minimal utility.
Examples of intelligence are associated text and
voice. ·
Reiteration that creating a normative vocabulary of
symbol names is very high priority. ·
Internationalization (level 2) is a requirement but
initial focus will be on US requirements. ·
Associated with internationalization is Versioning. Need
to be able to deal with symbol versions. There will be updates, additions, etc
to the normative EM Symbol set. ·
A potential future area of requirements is the ability to
use pen and tablet devices (part of the larger requirement to allow field entry
and edit using EM Symbols). ·
What about things other than visual symbols, such as
audio alerts. ·
Artwork should be available in multiple files sizes as
well as black and white and color. Some feel that rules are not appropriate
because the client then needs to interpret these rules and support some
rendering technology such as SVG. (Chair’s note: I believe we need more
discussion in this area. Many hand held devices now support multiple rendering
technologies as well as j2me.) |
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