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Contenuto archiviato il 2024-04-16

Feasibility Demonstration of ODA for Technical Documents

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The FODATEC project demonstrates the feasibility of using the ODA standard, combined with the STEP engineering product life-cycle standard, for the production, storage and communication of technical documents in an open environment.
A document management system has been developed with the following features:

Tools for importing multimedia documents and document parts in order to store, reuse, edit and print them on the system and for exporting them to other environments. These tools include conversions between internal format and office document interchange format (ODIF), desktop publishing formats and standard generalised markup language (SGML) (for some specific document type definitions (DTD), including the CALS group of DTDs).

A converter from the STEP format into 3-dimensional graphical data, allowing their visualization and an interactive 3-dimensional-2-dimensional converter storing 2-dimensional views of the data. These 2-dimensional views can be included in a document as vector or as bitmap graphical data.

A document editor for the production of multimedia documents, for which an existing commercial editor is used, supplemented with a dedicated office document architecture (ODA) document class editor.

A technical document management module enabling storage, search and retrieval of documents and document parts using management and reference data; this module also allows the organization and control work flow of document production and maintenance.

An advanced communication module providing distributed open systems interconnection (OSI) access to documents and document parts. X.400 and DTAM are used.

A modular approach in the system architecture allows replacement of the document editor by another and of the database server module by another (for which any structured query language (SQL) server can be used).
Important new features of FODATEC are the use of ODA attributes to index and retrieve document parts, both locally and remotely, and to add management information to document constituents at all levels. This allows multi- authoring and version management at document part level. Also important is the possibility to introduce STEP engineering data directly as graphics into documents.

The FODATEC tools allow the use of international and industry standards such as ODA, SGML, STEP and SQL for document production, storage and retrieval. The adherence to such standards is becoming a vital element of technical documentation systems, given the regulatory initiatives in several industries such as the defence, aviation and automotive industry. It also safeguards investments made in production systems for the coming years.

A production and management environment for technical documents has been developed as an integrated software system. It allows the integration of 3D product data, vector and raster graphics and text into documents on paper or in electronic format (in document databases or published on optical media). The system runs on industry standard Unix workstations; it is ported to one of the new European workstations.

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BUREAU VAN DIJK
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AVENUE LOUISE /BTE 14, 250, 14
1050 BRUXELLES
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