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CubeWerx Invited to W3C Workshop on Binary Interchange of XML Information Item Sets
Following the submission of a position paper on Binary XML, CubeWerx was invited to participate at upcoming W3C Workshop
Gatineau, September 23, 2003 – CubeWerx, a world leader in the development and commercialization of interoperable technologies for the storage, management and distribution of geospatial data on the Internet, announced today that it has been invited along with a select group of 59 organizations to attend a binary encoding of XML session at the upcoming W3C Workshop, to be held in Santa Clara, September 24-26, 2003.
Dr. Craig Bruce, senior software developer at CubeWerx, has been developing a position paper on binary XML Encoding. A copy of the Dr. Bruce's paper can be downloaded from the Cubewerx Web site in either HTML format: http://www.cubewerx.com/main/HTML/Binary_XML_Encoding.html or PDF format: http://www.cubewerx.com/main/PDFs/Binary_XML_Encoding.pdf.
CubeWerx's position paper comes on the heals of the submission earlier this summer of a discussion paper to members of the OpenGIS® Consortium, on the development of specifications for efficiently encoding general XML documents and dense-numeric scientific-data formation such as GML. The BXML (or Binary XML) specification was voted by OGC as a discussion paper in June 2003 and is publicly available for comment at the following URL: http://www.opengis.org/techno/discussions/03-002r8.pdf.
"Dr. Bruce's participation in this W3C workshop demonstrates yet again CubeWerx' active participation in the elaboration and adoption of open standards for the discovery, publication and distribution of geospatial data across the Internet" said Edric Keighan, CubeWerx President and CEO.
ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (W3C)
The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France, and Keio University in Japan. Services provided by the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample applications to demonstrate use of new technology. To date, over 400 organizations are members of the Consortium. For more information see http://www.w3.org/
ABOUT THE OPENGIS® CONSORTIUM (OGC)
OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 250 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS® specifications support interoperable solutions that “geo-enable” the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.
ABOUT CUBEWERX INC.
Founded in 1996, CubeWerx has been developing standard-based off the shelf software products (SCOTS) in response to Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) requirements for interoperable information infrastructures. CubeWerx is an innovative software company whose expertise includes development, marketing and selling of Web Services and Spatial Warehousing software products. These products and other location-based software product components support the most demanding requirements for the integration, access, and management of very large volumes of Spatial Data over the web. CubeWerx products such as CubeXPLOR, CubeSERV and CubeSTOR were developed using open and interoperable specifications from the Open GIS Consortium. These products allow organizations responsible for Geospatial data to respond to their most demanding client requirements and offer them on-line Web services in a multi-vendor products environment. More information on CubeWerx is available on the Internet at www.cubewerx.com.
For more information please contact:
Edric Keighan (CubeWerx)
Tel.: (819) 771-8303 x207
E-mail
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