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Q: How Can I find out what's going on in Document-Management Standards?
A: Use the AIIM International home page on the Web:
http://www.aiim.org.Click the "Standards" button and go to the AIIM Standards area. This provides current links to
ANSI/ISO Standards activity relevant to document and information management
Work of the Document Management Alliance (DMA).
Work of the Open Document Management API (ODMA) coalition
Work of the Workflow Management Coalition
Work of the ANSI/AIIM Standards-track activities (via the Standards Forum item)
Q: Are there other activities?
A: Yes. Other activities also have information on the Web:
WebDAV is being implemented widely:
http://www.webdav.orgOMGDRI is the Document Repository Integration model being developed by the Object Management Group as part of work on Business Objects. The index of current OMG projects is at
http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/index.htmlISO and IEC, the international standards bodies, have projects in early stages on document management.
The DoD 5015.2 STD on Electronic Records Management is receiving much attention relevant to document management. ARMA is conducting a review.
The NIST E-Docs Conference has brought together government, industry, and user organizations to identify concerns and the need for standards in the general area of electronic documents. Document Management and Workflow Management are big factors.
http://www.aiim.org/industry/standards/intro.htmlintroduces the AIIM ANSI/ISO Activities
http://www.aiim.org/industry/standards/scope.htmprovides summaries and contact information on the work of all of the subcommittees sponsored by AIIM.
OASIS (bridge on XML, on databases, and SGML)
NISO
W3C
IETF
Digital Library Projects
Find references to Digital Library projects around the world
[National Digital Library Project for Japan completed.]
Link to Stanford Digital Library Projects:http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/diglib/pub
Standards in Metadata:
http://www.nssn.org/star/star.htmfor searching Standards Database (registration is free, at some point registration will not be necessary)GILS
Basic Semantic Reference
ANSI/ISO work
OMG Metamodel (MOF) work and UML connections
WebDAV: Web Document Authoring & Versioning
WebDAV provides extensions to HTTP that provide for authoring and versioning directly over the Web.
WebDAV functions are implemented in current releases of Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office.
There are WebDAV Server functions implemented in Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and as supplements to Apache and other servers.
There are public, open-source implementations as well as commercial and closed-source implementations.
WebDAV is being extended further into document management by the addition of document-level security controls and versioning with check-in and check-out controls. There are also extensions at the technical level with regard to managing containers of material and specifying connections among different items.
Tuesday, April 11
Conference Session 60
Document Management over the Web: WebDAV
13:30 - 14:30, Room 1E16Wednesday, April 12
Breakout on DMware Open-Source
9:00 - 11:00, Room 2D02Web-DM Forum
noon - 15:30, Room 2D02
(there is a $30 fee for attendance)
On the technical front, WebDAV and XML, XML, and XML
On the IT and user front, calibrating and confirming interoperability across the enterprise and with business partners. This is an identified "missing" in discussions with many people, and came out of the NIST E-Docs Conference as well.
Everyone wants interoperability
No one wants to be the one to pay for it
Frustration and failures of interoperability and coherence stall efforts to extend collaborative activities among enterprise organizations and between enterprises
Qualifying Interoperability of System Components
to be integrated
to be used cooperatively
How can we confirm and perhaps even certify what works between system components and vendor products?
Open development of confirmation software and applications for demonstrating levels of operability with various products?
Provision of test suites that vendors can employ to ensure common operation for standardized functions/interfaces?
Who typically provides tools and widgets that are shared with others?
small organizations, not big ones
in settings where there is more collegiality
SIGS in metro areas, open-source communities
people who do it for the personal fulfillment
- see also:
- Q010301: What Is DMware?
The DMware Model describes a particular approach to open-source software development and distribution.
One characteristic of open-source software is that there is always a license. The license provides non-exclusive conditional permission to perform particular acts that are protected under copyright.
Copying and redistribution is one of the common permissions, and there are conditions.
Making a derivative work. All open-source licenses permit making and distribution of derivative works.
Confusion with original is always avoided
What if a proprietary solution were turned over as open-source?
Who is responsible for the original updating of DMA and ODMA as open-source. The DMware Technical Coordinator, Dennis Hamilton, is performing that work under AIIM institutional sponsorship.
What is the impact on proprietary products based on DMA and ODMA?
Attendees: 10 people
Introductions
Intentions for the Group
Sharing, networking, common interests, best practices, success stories, case studies
[Get the announcement]
Meet twice yearly and have forums around the country so that we can be available to different communities
People on sign-up list are asked to specify whether available to the advisory committee
Document Repository Interoperability on the Web - Jim Whitehead, Chair, WebDAV Working Group:
mailto:ejw@ics.uci.edu
WebDAV Complete - RFC 2518
Advanced Collections - near complete
Access Control - expended by year-end 2000
DeltaV expected in 2001
Reviewed list of exiting 2518-honoring clients and servers (9 servers, 10 clients)
Different Uses of WebDAV
Remote Software Engineering
Web-based file systems
Collaborative authoring protocol
A data integration technology
Protocol for mobile use of XML documents
Presentation of some Use Cases and Property Handling
Searching with DASL
Pointed out how search protocol is scalable and customizable
Delta-V Overview
Now remote configuration management as well as basic versioning
Versioning all content types
Versioning-aware and -unaware clients can interoperate properly
Versioning and configuration management are separated and availability depends on service capabilities
Goes into the basic concepts of workspace, working revisions, etc.
Interoperability
So far so good
Clients interact well with existing servers
Number of clients and servers are growing
Compliance Test Suite for WebDAV
For both servers and clients
Consistent behavior across servers
Explore the interoperability between the WebDAV and DMA standards
Sample Code Bases
DMA binding for Apache mod_dav
DMA to WebDAV binding
Documents describing overlap
Object model comparisons, etc.
OMG-DRI a starting point also
Metadata Interoperability
Standards being developed - Dublin Core
Described abstractly, and also have a binding to a tag set
A registry of equivalent metadata elements and correspondences between them and their name spaces
There is a bridging problem here and it is holding up some things
Need registry process with examples of how to submit and interpret the information
Promotion/Marketing
Publicly available servers
And clients
But little general awareness of how to use WebDAV
Need to inform people - benefits, usage, and different techniques and forums for general & technical audiences
Produce a series of articles over time and let people know what can be done and the problems that can be solved by using starndard approaches
Support Organization
IETF does not develop code
Does not see themselves as a marketing organization
Wants Document Management Standards Support Organization
Discussion requested for today
Resources
webdav.org
Brainstorming Activity and Where can Web-DM go
Dennis presented how the DMware site can be used in this way
Discussion of compliance testing suites
Jim Whitehead promotes notion of regression tests created as a public good
Question about whether one uses a certification agency or produces a piece of code that anyone can run to self-certify or to confirm the capability of a product (as a benchmark)
Cadaver is a tool for doing WebDAV is an easy case of using scripts to make WebDAV tests
Other possibility is a bake-off where people work in a test lab and actually have developers there to confirm bugs and propose fixes and workarounds
Lots of discussion on usage practices and how one might make a manageable Web Folder structure, for example, with thousands of insurance records
Questions about organization of collections of material and also agreement on tag sets and the semantics for them as well as accurate syntactic definitions
Questions about confirming operation and having independent sources
Helping people know how a requirement is met
Discussion of how vendors now give away clients, even thick ones, but sell repository access.
Question about who pays for test suites, what is the economic case
Discussion about getting the properties of office documents into the metadata of the document under document-management
Discuss having external property wrappers and using embedded property information
Legacies and legal requirements may not be permitted to be modified
Application of the DOM as ways to provide a consistent way to derive metadata information around a document and using that model over other document architectures
Are we really talking about creating more significant technical standards work? Or are we out to work at a different level that might lead to some technical standards
What about identifying best practices, and allow them to be pursued
C27.1 is going to edit guidelines around document-management functions and the Web. What about the issues and requirements of Web-enabled document management.
Don Post says they want co-editors on the C27.1 activity
Looking for clarification of a framework on where different activities would fit
Also talking about an update of the RFP standard for standard elements to be sure to cover in an RFP (as covered by TR27). Need an update that would be Information Management centric, not just Image Management centric.
Looking for a common RFP base document with modules for specialization to Image, Document, and other management requirements.
Pointing out that this is not just WebDAV, and we are looking at interoperability generally around document management and the Web.
Where are the vendors in this conversation? Who can work with common interfaces and practices and forge agreements among vendors?
Key issue about how everyone is web-enabling and want to anticipate how to exploit this to make integration and migration smother
[Hide talks about how high-capacity DMA repositories deployed in largest Japanese pharmaceutical company and Japanese Patent Office.]
What benefits could accrue to vendors for faster time to market out of what we do
What benefits could accrue to integrations
What benefits could accrue to users
Issues of mergers and acquisitions and conversions, plus interoperability within a single vendors product family
Notion of a modern placeless office and how user keeps own information, avoids duplications in the system, etc. Nice high-level user model based on how they want to operate at a new level in business.
Presentation of IETF rules and model and how it is done without organization voting.
Looking for meeting again in September.
Location somewhere in the U.S.
This body becomes the advisory council.
Question about polling vendors.
Vendor could provide hosting facilities.
Discussion of original idea to have Web-DM be a best-practices and networking activity, with requirements that come up going to existing standards programs.
The XML piece, and is there document-management on XML.
Goal: Get vendors on board to attend the next session.
Suggestion of 3 audiences
vendors
enterprise users
government has the problems all over the place
Implementations have to be out there, and then the government provides economic impetus [?]
We need to get to that audience to find the horsepower that we need.
Additional integrators who are working into the e-commerce and ASP areas need to say how they see closing the gap between users and vendors.
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