Getting From Here to There: How Is XML Actually Implemented

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Getting From Here to ThereHow Is XML Actually
Implemented

• Contribution to Panel Session Save Money by
  Publishing to XML by Brand Niemann, US EPA
• An ITAA Breakfast Seminar
• October 30, 2003
• J.W. Marriott Hotel, Washington, DC

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Pursuing a Vision of Live Publishing on the Web

• Late 1980s
• US EPAs Center for Environmental Statistics
• Guide to National Environmental Statistics in the
  U.S. Government.
• Both a print and a hypertext versions before the
  Web.
• The text could be readily updated, but the
  graphics couldnt.
• Mid-1990s
• Interagency Working Group on Sustainable
  Development Indicators
• Reports on Sustainable Development Indicators and
  A Digital Library of the State of the
  Environment.
• Both a print version and a hypertext version on
  the Web.
• The text could be readily updated, but the
  graphics still couldnt.
• Mid-2002
• XML Working Group (July 17, 2002, John Turnbull,
  Corel)
• Corels XMetal and Smart Graphics Studio.
• Both the text and the graphics could be readily
  updated and it used XML (SVG)!

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The Pilot Project

• October 29, 2002, The Promise of XML Web
  Services for Government, FedWeb Fall 02, George
  Mason University, Arlington, VA
• Corels XMetal (Jay Di Silvestri), XEnterprises
  Content_at_, and NextPages Triad.
• March 13, 2003, "Bringing XML Web Services to
  Your Agency" The CIO Council's XML Web Services
  Working Group and Some Examples, Corel Smart
  Graphics Studio and XMetal, Workshop for the USDA
  Economic Research Service
• Scott Edwards, Jim Buttinger, Mary Romeo, and
  Shawn Henderson.

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The Pilot Project (continued)
Change the table and the graph changes. . .
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The Pilot Project (continued)
XML Web Services Repository and Distributed
Content Network
NXT 4
Smart Graphics Studio
XPP Web Services
XYEnterprises Content_at_
NextPages NXT 3 and Solo
Corels XMetal
Multiple vendors providing an end-to-end solution
based on XML standards.
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The Pilot Project (continued)

• March 21, 2003, Corel's XMetal and Smart Graphics
  Studio, 2003 FOSE Best New Technology Award
  Finalists in the Electronic Government Software
  Category
• Winner for Smart Graphics Studio!
• May 14, 2003, XML Web Services Working Group
  Meeting, XML Web Services Content Authoring the
  State of the Chesapeake Bay Report
• Corel's XMetal and Smart Graphics Studio.
• May 21, 2003, Information Management Subcommittee
  Meeting of the Chesapeake Bay Program, XML
  Authoring the State of the Chesapeake Bay Report
• Corels' XMetal and Smart Graphic Studio.
• September 29, 2003, XML Authoring and Editing
  Forum
• John Turnbull, Jay Di Silvestri, and Bill Kirk.

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The Pilot Project (continued)

• September 29, 2003, XML Authoring and Editing
  Forum
• Taking the Pulse of XML Editing, Kendall Grant
  Clark, XML.Com, October 1, 2003
• If I had a group of end users who needed to do
  lots of stuff with SVG and XML creation, Id
  probably give them XMetal, and the Corel graphics
  tool, on that basis alone.
• August 28, 2003, Information Discovery and Data
  Exploitation
• Technical Exchange Meeting Report of the
  Intelligence Community Metadata Working Group (IC
  MWG), October 17, 2003
• In the best of all worlds, XML and metadata
  should be embedded in the resource, but we will
  take it any way we can if it gets everyone to
  share their information, to improve search,
  discovery, and exploitation.
• The use of well-designed GUIs for XML and
  metadata insertion has the potential to ease the
  burden of placing metadata and ultimately
  increasing productivity downstream.

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