DeltaXML Newsletter - February 2005
Welcome to our February newsletter. This month we're pleased to welcome new customers, and have an update on an existing customer, with an article featuring Norwegian aeronautical company, Avinor AS, who are using DeltaXML technology in a key electronic publishing project with implications for European air safety and capacity.
We're always on the lookout for talented individuals to join our team and help us to develop DeltaXML further. We work with some of the most highly skilled people in the XML field. If you know of anyone who could contribute to the technical or commercial development of DeltaXML, we'd be very interested to hear from them.
Your feedback is very important to us. Understanding current issues in practical application of change control is key to our development - please get in touch if there's anything you'd like to suggest or discuss. If you'd like to try out our technology for yourself, evaluation downloads of the DeltaXML Core API, together with full documentation and online demos, are always available at our website: www.deltaxml.com
- The DeltaXML Team.
Contents
In this newsletter:
Customer Focus: Recent DeltaXML Customers
Recent customers include:
- Wolters-Noordhoff (Netherlands) (visit) - a WoltersKluwer company
- T-Systems International GmbH (Germany) visit - part of the Deutsche Telekom group, T-Systems is one of Europe’s leading providers of information and communications technology
DeltaXML is being used in publications management and in comparisons of bill-of-material information.
Avinor - DeltaXML Takes Wing
"DeltaXML solved a big, big problem in a very short time."
DeltaXML is proud to announce the use of our technology in the skies above Europe. Avinor AS in Norway are using DeltaXML for change control in the publication of aeronautical information.
Avinor is the state-owned Norwegian company which has responsibility for all of Norway’s air traffic control services. The company owns and operates 46 airports around the country. As part of its truly vast remit, Avinor compiles and publishes wide-ranging aeronautical documentation relating to the entire aerospace infrastructure of Norway.
Together with all 25 EU member states and Switzerland, Norway is involved in the ‘European Single Sky Initiative’ (ESSI) launched by the European Commission in 1999. A crucial part of this management system is the flow of data through the European AIS (Aeronautical Information Services), and this is where Avinor comes in.
Publishing and updating Norway’s aeronautical data on a monthly basis is a huge documentation project. Avinor’s databases include detailed information on every Norwegian airport – right down to the location of fire appliances – as well as all airway and flight plan information across Norwegian airspace. Avinor are currently transferring the publication of relevant material from printed document format to an electronic Aeronautical Information Publication (e-AIP), in line with a mandatory requirement from the end of 2005 onwards for all e-AIPs to be released in XML.
Avinor are coming to the end of the first project in which they have used DeltaXML, and are very happy with the results. The central functionality of this development is the ability to find precisely what has changed from a previous version of any piece of aeronautical information in their databases. To achieve this, Avinor are using an extended AIXM data model built on a temporal database, and employing DeltaXML for change control. This gives a complete audit trail of any changes made. DeltaXML allows the user to roll back or forward through sequential changes to any point in time, and to produce a full print-ready documentation set for any chosen point. When comparing two documents, Avinor use DeltaXML features to ensure correct alignment, and they are also taking advantage of DeltaXML’s precise control of the granularity of change identification.
One of the key benefits of the DeltaXML solution for Avinor is that when a user saves changes, only the changes are saved, and not whole documents. The increase in performance and lower storage requirements that result from this are great advantages for Avinor. As Torgeir Tveiten puts it, "It solved a big, big problem in a very short time."
The core functionality of this project is now complete, and Avinor are now building a GUI authoring environment for end-users. Avinor are so delighted with their successful deployment of DeltaXML in this project that they plan to extend its use to a future GIS cartographic project, and to use DeltaXML in the management of other graphic files in addition to text and tabular data.
Weblinks:
http://www.avinor.no/English
http://www.eurocontrol.int
Diary Dates
XTech 2005, Amsterdam, 24-27 May 2005
Weblinks:
DeltaXML news: http://www.deltaxml.com/news/
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