Intelligent document exchange architecture: Open to the Max

Conference · Thu May 08 04:00:00 UTC 1997

OSTI ID:1178196

Turner, Ronald C. ^[1]

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1. Soph-Ware Associates, Inc., Spokane, WA

Intelligent Document Exchange Architecture (IDEA) addresses the issues inhibiting easy interchange of electronic documents within large organization and across networks: proprietary formats, competing industry standards, software tools that are difficult to integrate, and platforms of widely varying scale. IDEA defines an intelligent SGML Information Server that monitors and controls all of the services associated with creating, storing, retrieving, editing, transmitting, formatting, and delivering a multimedia document. All of the server's transactions with the user and with the various services rely on message-oriented middleware in which the messages themselves are valid SGML text. This allows for formalized and simplified interfacing to existing tools (document management and authoring software, for example) and thus promises a commercial off-the-shelf integration (COTSI) process. All of the locating mechanisms of IDEA are implemented with SGML formal public identifiers and a layered catalog. This assures that a delivered document is totally "live," residing always at its native location and in its current native form. SGML also includes a formal mechanism for defining dozens of ISO- and industry-standard formats. This architecture thus legitimately positions SGML as a manager of data of every variety.

• Research Organization: Soph-Ware Associates, Spokane, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: FG03-95ER82071
• OSTI ID: 1178196
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English