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At their recent meeting in Amsterdam, members of the IPTC agreed to revamp their operating structure and establish a new work program, IPTC2000, which will deliver an XML-based standard to represent and manage news through its life-cycle, including production, interchange and consumer use. Entitled NewsML, it is intended that the new framework standard will build on the intellectual property invested in existing IPTC standards such as the Information Interchange Model (IIM), News Industry Text Format (NITF) and the IPTC’s widely used Subject Classification Standard. Using XML, it is intended that NewsML will draw appropriately on existing and emerging W3C recommendations. Three working groups have been established to develop the key components of the programme. These are News Structure and Management, News Text and News Metadata. Earlier this year, the IPTC announced the publication of its first XML based standard, News Industry Text Format (NITF). This work, together with the Information Interchange Model (IIM), will form the basis of NewsML. All existing IPTC standards are copyright IPTC and are administered by the International Press Telecommunications Council, based in England. Information on NITF, IIM and Subject Matter Coding is available at www.iptc.org

Interwoven, Inc announced an alliance with Cisco Systems, Inc. Under the agreement, Interwoven will team with Cisco to co-develop Web content management best practices, align market strategies and jointly market solutions to customers. The combination of Interwoven’s TeamSite Web content management system and Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions provides an infrastructure for customers to optimize and accelerate their transformation to eBusiness. The synergy between Cisco and Interwoven creates a combined domain expertise in helping customers build and maintain Web sites. Interwoven will benefit from Cisco’s Internet business technology experience as well as its market share in networking products and services. Both companies will benefit through joint technical development and integration. www.interwoven.com

Andromedia, Inc. announced ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette – Andromedia’s Web site analysis and personalization solutions optimized for customers using Vignette’s StoryServer. ARIA for Vignette is a Web site analysis solution that tracks StoryServer page titles and Profile Marks out-of-the-box. ARIA for Vignette enables e-marketers to know their customers better, analyze dynamic content, and gauge campaign and site effectiveness in realtime. It tracks dynamic content on sites built with Vignette’s StoryServer and delivers the power and intelligence to analyze visitor behavior across geographically dispersed, multi-server StoryServer sites. Vignette Lifecycle Personalization approach enables a Web site to provide a dynamic, personalized experience based on demographics and viewing behaviors. Andromedia’s LikeMinds collaborative filtering technology complements and extends these capabilities by making use of every interaction with Web visitors-individual clickstream data, purchase history, explicit preferences and product similarities-to engage Web visitors with highly accurate product recommendations. Optimized for StoryServer sites, LikeMinds for Vignette enables the two technologies to work together to deliver accurate realtime personalization capabilities. ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette will be commercially available in Q1 2000. The Andromedia Worldwide Services Group will provide implementation support for the deployment of ARIA for Vignette and LikeMinds for Vignette as part of the product offerings. Different levels of consulting are available to meet unique customer requirements. www.vignette.com

Policy Management Systems Corporation (PMSC) announced through its wholly-owned subsidiary, DORN Technology Group, Inc., that DORN’s claims management system and its universal claims data specification are programmed in XML. In this case, XML will streamline the exchange of data between all those processing, managing and analyzing claims via the Internet. As a result, DORN’s claims management system, RISKMASTER/World, can reduce significantly the cost of handling claims online. The XML version of RISKMASTER/World will facilitate online communication between claims handlers such as self-insured organizations, third party adjusters, insurance pools, and insurance companies. XML eliminates many problems associated with incompatible data formats. For example, users can more easily exchange data via e-mail, browser, file, and live feeds. This new functionality will help DORN maintain its leadership among providers of online claims management systems. Meanwhile, DORN’s universal claims data specification will help claims application developers create custom XML tags that define where specific data elements begin and end. This helps speed the process of establishing a claims data standard for the entire claims industry. www.dorn.com, www.pmsc.com

Icon Information-Systems announced the release of version 3.0 of its XML Spy product. XML Spy is a professional validating XML editor that lets you edit all XML, XSL, Schema, and DTD files and provides four integrated views on the documents: The Enhanced Grid and Database View shows the entire structure of an XML document in a hierarchical presentation that allows in-place editing of all elements. Sequences of repeating elements are automatically transformed into a spreadsheet-like display. The Text View gives you the option to view the XML document in source form with customizable syntax-coloring and allows you to directly edit the source for low-level tasks. The integrated Browser View uses Internet Explorer 5 to render an XML document inside XML Spy. This view fully supports CSS and XSL style-sheets and can be displayed in a separate window. The new Import function enables the user to generate XML documents from a wide range of flat and relational data sources: text files, Word documents, Access files, and ODBC database sources. Complete Unicode and character-set encoding support are integrated for seamless data exchange with foreign languages or writing systems. www.icon-is.com

click2send.com, Inc. launched click2send for the Enterprise, a Web-based file delivery, management and storage service to facilitate large-scale business communication via the Internet. The service combines instant global file delivery with in-network format conversion, file synchronization, Web-based storage and the ability to customize the user interface to reflect corporate branding, streamlining corporate communication and collaboration with employees, partners and customers. Using click2send for the Enterprise, users can rapidly and reliably transfer files up to 75MB in size using their Web browser and no additional software. The service notifies recipients about the availability of files for transfer through short email messages that contain URLs pointing to the sender’s secure click2send Safe Deposit Box. When recipients click on the URL, their browsers are opened and the users are taken immediately to the file location where files can be downloaded to a local hard disk. Leading business document types, including Microsoft Office, HTML or Windows Media, can be viewed directly in the click2send window without the user having to download the file first and launch it separately. Files can be viewed simultaneously by many recipients in different locations. click2send for the Enterprise is available now to any business with Internet access for a minimal monthly subscription fee. The service is suited for hard-wired connections and Netscape 4.01 or higher and Internet Explorer 4.00 or higher Web browsers. www.click2send.com

Oracle Corp. announced the immediate availability of the beta version of Oracle XML Developer’s Kit-bundled components, tools and utilities for building and deploying XML-enabled applications to create and maintain e-business marketplaces. In addition, Oracle is also establishing an XML support program to help ensure consistent, reliable and speedy deployments of XML business-to-business infrastructures. The Oracle XML Developer’s Kit (Oracle XDK) is available for developers working in a variety of programming languages. It provides the XML infrastructure and reliability companies need to easily exchange information across systems to create more efficient systems for competing in today’s global business landscape. Specifically, Oracle XDK includes the following: XML Parsers: supporting Java, C, C++ and PL/SQL, the components create and parse XML using industry standard DOM and SAX interfaces. XSL Processor: transforms or renders XML into other text-based formats such as HTML. XML Class Generator: automatically generates Java and C++ classes to send XML data from Web forms or applications. And XML Transviewer Java Beans to visually view and transform XML documents and data via Java components. In order to provide support to Internet developers, XML experts in Oracle Support will provide both phone and Web-based support for Oracle XDK. Support will be free of charge to those with a current maintenance agreement for the Oracle database or Oracle Application Server. In addition, stand-alone support for Oracle XDK may be purchased online-via the Oracle Store at The beta version of Oracle XDK is immediately available for free via the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at http://technet.oracle.com . The production version is scheduled to be available by the end of the year. www.oracle.com