Designed to speed data delivery and transformation in Web and wireless applications, the Ipedo XML Database combines advanced XML query processing with a high-speed native XML data-base engine. The all-Java server includes advanced XSLT and Xpath processing features. Users interested in beta testing Ipedo XML Database see www.ipedo.com
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Context Media, Inc., announced a new technology promotion agreement between the two companies, Context Media will enable Macromedia Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver UltraDev users to easily acquire compelling, syndicated rich-media content through the Context Media Interchange Platform, and automatically integrate this content into their Web pages and applications. For the 70 percent of professional Web developers who already use Macromedia Dreamweaver this feature will make it even easier to create compelling, sticky web sites by easily adding syndicated audio, video and animated content elements into their Web development process. The Interchange Platform aggregates rich media content from creative development companies, giving them the ability to create new sources of revenue by providing a powerful new way to license, manage and distribute their assets to partners and affiliates. The Interchange Platform goes beyond simple encoding, logging, tagging, streaming and syndicating of rich-media content assets. Instead, it gives companies the ability to draw on the strengths of all those basic processes and build on them to create new business models and generate new sources of revenue from high-value content assets. Using XML, Context Media is helping companies create, manage and distribute Intelligent Content that can deliver value to multiple points and on multiple platforms. www.contextmedia.com
Microsoft Corp. announced it will hold an open design review for gathering industry feedback on new metadata extensions that will enable a business to integrate its line-of-business, data warehousing, and knowledge management environments. Also today, the Meta Data Coalition (MDC) formally announced that the Open Information Model (OIM) has been accepted as the metadata standard. The proposed extensions to the OIM capture business knowledge such as goals, objectives, processes and rules, as well as terminology and categorizations, enabling the automated linkage between a wide variety of business information types. This linkage is needed for the creation of enterprise information portals or “digital dashboards,” which enable real-time decision-making by providing businesses with a single window into all their information. The OIM extensions are the result of extensive collaboration with industry partners and represent the first milestone in the effort initiated with the Meta Data Coalition in December 1998. The open design review period for the new model extensions begins today with the availability of preliminary specifications for the following three models: Knowledge description model, Business engineering model, and Business rule model. This phase of the open design process is expected to conclude with an industry partner review in fall of 1999, where updated specifications, final input and early product demonstrations will be presented. Information about obtaining a copy of the specifications and providing feedback during the design review period is available through the Microsoft Web site at www.microsoft.com/repository/ or the Meta Data Coalition Web site at www.mdcinfo.com
The Meta Data Coalition (MDC) and the Object Management Group (OMG) announced their first cooperative effort to develop metadata standards. In establishing a formal technical liaison, the MDC is now a Platform Member of the OMG, and the OMG is a member of the MDC. The objective of this cross-membership is to provide a way for the two groups to work together on common standards, based on the belief that standards reduce confusion in the marketplace and increase efficiency for IT organizations. The OMG has provided leadership in metadata management starting with issuance of the Repository RFI in 1995, which led to the OMG distributed repository architecture definition in 1996. The Meta Object Facility (MOF) was adopted by the OMG in 1995 and has been refined through the OMG’s open, vendor-neutral standards process. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) was adopted in 1997. More recently, the OMG embraced W3C XML with the adoption of the XML Metadata Interchange (XMI). These three standards, UML, MOF and XMI, form the foundation of the OMG’s modeling and metadata management architecture.. The MDC was founded in 1995 to develop and provide standardized metadata exchange; the coalition introduced the Meta Data Interchange Specification (MDIS) in 1996. Recently the MDC completed the technical review of the MDC-OIM, a technology-independent and vendor-neutral information model describing the structure and semantics of metadata. The MDC-OIM is based on the Microsoft Open Information Model, a metadata model and specification that is part of Microsoft Repository, a metadata management product. This model was developed by Microsoft, together with over 20 industry-leading companies, and has been reviewed by more than 300 companies as part of Microsoft’s Open Process. The MDC-OIM supports the OMG’s UML specification www.MDCinfo.com/. www.omg.org.
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