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E x t r a: O t h e r N e w s: A s i d e s: F a v o r i t e s: LEAD STORIES S1000D's cost saving potential grabs Pentagon's attentionApril 20th, 2005, DCLnewsBesides keeping planes flying and ships sailing, the S1000D XML/SGML documentation specification is making technical publishing faster and less expensive. DCLnews reports.
Meeting the FDA’s SPL RequirementsApril 20th, 2005, DCLnews
Meeting the FDA's requirement for XML formatted data for pharmaceutical Structured Product Labeling (SPL) submissions fall into three main categories: service, hosted and enterprise. Which is best for you? Asks DCL's Don Bridges. EXTRA Arbortext User Group International (AUGI) conferenceApril 20th, 2005, DCLnews>>> AUGI 2005, Orlando, FL, May 18-20. DCL will be exhibiting at this year's Arbortext User Group International (AUGI) conference and will be giving demonstrations of content reuse, revealing how the process reduces the costs of documentation maintenance by striping out redundant data. Find out more at:
Q&As posted for DCL's content reuse webinarsApril 20th, 2005, DCLnews
New XML users' group – Philadelphia areaApril 20th, 2005, DCLnewsA new XML users' group is inviting anyone from the Delaware Valley and Greater Philadelphia area interested in XML technologies to join. The group was founded in December 2004 to provide a forum that encourages development of professional relationships and the exchange of knowledge and ideas related to the use of XML and related standards. Membership is free and open to individuals representing themselves or their employers. The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 11th, 6-8 p.m., at Elsevier offices in Philadelphia (1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard).
OTHER NEWS Paperless GPS-driven submarineMarch 31st, 2005, The Dolphin
This summer, the USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) will be the first submarine to receive its final "paperless" navigation certification. The submarine is fitted with the Voyage Management System (VMS), developed by Sperry-Marine. VMS integration into the submarine force began in 1998 to introduce electronic navigation as a way to enhance accuracy and efficiency of navigation and voyage planning. Seven years on, all submarines in the fleet carry some version of VMS, depending on the class of submarine and the installation date. Electronic navigation offers many advantages over paper charts. VMS significantly reduces the time and manual labor required for chart maintenance and voyage planning. "Anyone who has had to correct a paper chart will tell you it's a very tedious process – time consuming and painstaking," says chief electronics technician Mark Little. "With electronic charts, it's very simple. You just start the computer, insert a CD to update the database and you are free to tackle other work." The National Geo-Spatial Agency has spent the last five years digitizing all nautical charts of the world's waterways, with the exception of the polar ice cap. These electronic charts provide much more detailed and layered information than paper charts and virtually eliminate the risk of human error in navigation. Plus VMS has built in programmable alarms that warn the navigation team in advance if they are veering off course or have planned a voyage that takes them through hazardous areas.
Blackwell tests open access watersApril 11th, 2005, Wired News
Blackwell Publishing, a leading publisher of society journals, is to launch an open access publishing experiment, Online Open, which will run through 2006. Like Springer's Open Choice program, announced last year, Blackwell's plan will create a hybrid system, in which open access articles are included in print subscription journals, with subscription prices adjusted. Online Open articles will be freely available via the publisher's online journals platform, Blackwell Synergy. During the trial period, the Online Open fee will be fixed at $2500. Blackwell officials say that Online Open submissions will be treated in the same way as any other article. Unlike Springer's Open Choice program, however, authors participating in Blackwell's Online Open program will not be required to sign over copyright to their articles, a key issue to supporters of open access. "We expect the medical and biology journals to be involved in the trial, subjects where there is likely funding for 'author pays,'" says Dawn Peters, Blackwell public relations manager. She adds that the $2500 fee is also experimental: "The fee is only a figure for the trial. It is not based on cost, but at $2500 it is within what some funding bodies have indicated they are prepared to pay." At least 1,525 journals provide free or open access, making up 5 to 10 percent of the world's journals. Open access journals are gaining influence too: Thomson Scientific, which tracks academic publishing, found they are commonly cited by other journals, suggesting that they are well-read. Meanwhile, other journals are opening their archives to readers for free. "It's very exciting that publishers the world over are recognizing the benefits of open access and are conducting their own experiments," said Gavin Yamey, senior editor of PLOS Medicine, one of two flagship journals published by the Public Library of Science, which helped spearhead the concept of providing free online access.
XML cracks crimeApril 7th, 2005, IT-World
A new XML-based system has been developed by Microsoft and police organizations to help track down people who prey on children online. The Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS) was developed by Microsoft Canada and law enforcement agencies, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Toronto Police Service. The technology lets investigators spot trends and link pieces of information in, for example, child pornography cases, which often span borders and involve unknown perpetrators and victims. Also, CETS is accessible to multiple agencies and can be linked to systems used by law enforcement agencies in other countries. "It allows us to store massive amounts of information and share it. We're all working on one common database and it uses social networking analysis to identify non-obvious relationships," said Paul Gillespie, a Toronto Police detective sergeant. "Within law enforcement, just the fact that we will all be working off the same page is a bit of a cultural shift." CETS is an information management tool that uses XML (Extensible Markup Language) Web services and other Microsoft technology to capture information related to child exploitation. It then allows investigators to search that information and share it. Police agencies can use CETS to cross reference large volumes of case information in new ways and uncover obscure relationships between different pieces of data. Microsoft spent $2 million developing the program and has pledged another $2 million to help police agencies adopt and implement CETS. "CETS is not something that we are going to be selling," says Microsoft Canada president David Hemler. "We've offered to give this away to any law enforcement agency on a worldwide basis." The program had backing at the highest levels within Microsoft. Bill Gates instructed Microsoft Canada to work with law enforcement to develop CETS after he received an e-mail from Paul Gillespie in January 2003. The Toronto Police detective sergeant told Gates that officers in his unit were falling behind sex offenders because they lacked the tools and training to properly investigate crimes on the Internet or penetrate shadowy communities of pedophiles.
"I sent the e-mail and about three weeks later I was contacted by Microsoft Canada. They wanted to know what they could do for me. To be honest, I thought it was people in my office playing a joke on me. When I sent the e-mail I really did not expect to hear anything back," Gillespie said. Electronic medical records on a USB keyring
April 13th, 2005, E-Health-Insider
A biochemistry professor has developed a USB key chain so people can carry around their own electronic medical records downloaded from their doctor's record system. The MedInfo Chip, developed by Dr Carl Franzblau, chairman and professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of Medicine, is essentially a key drive that incorporates all the software needed to view patient records on any USB compatible PC or Mac. To download records from a compatible medical records system, the chip is inserted into the doctor's machine, a password is entered and the data is transferred. Should the patient have a medical emergency, the chip can be inserted into the USB port of the clinician's computer. When the welcome screen appears, there is an option that allows anybody see a summary of the patient's records in an emergency – name, height, weight, medication, allergies, current conditions and so on. As his next project, Dr Franzblau is looking into the possibility of adding RFID tags to the system, so that Alzheimer's patients can be tracked and identified should they wander out of reach of care-givers.
Air New Zealand sheds 35 kg of paper documents
April 14th, 2005, Stuff
Air New Zealand will become the first airline in the Pacific to use electronic flight bag technology on its new fleet of eight Boeing 777 jets. Electronic flight bags will replace about 35 kilograms of paper documents such as aeronautical maps and charts, manuals and maintenance logs carried in the cockpit. The system, developed by Boeing, is designed to improve aircraft running costs and safety. All the information the pilots need during a flight – details of airports, check lists and performance calculations – is displayed on screens, creating a paperless flight deck. Air New Zealand chief pilot and general manager of operations David Morgan says the new technology will increase revenue and reduce engine maintenance costs by more accurately calculating the amount of payload the aircraft could carry and the optimum engine power settings needed for takeoff. "At the moment we, like most airlines, are still using a paper-based performance optimization tool. They are very gross. They don't get down to the level of minutiae regularity which enables us to put on more passengers or payload, or take off using even less thrust," says Morgan. ASIDES Big birds squawk tooApril 18th, 2005, DCLnews
It isn't just birds that squawk, Air Force pilots do too. Here are some maintenance complaints (AKA "squawks") attributed to US Air Force pilots flying their "big birds" and the replies from the maintenance crews.
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