WebCGM Working Group

Introduction

Computer Graphics Metafile, or CGM, is an ISO standard for tree-structured, binary graphics format that has been adopted especially by the technical industries (defense, aviation, transportation, etc) for technical illustration in electronic documents.

This Working group is chartered to develop a W3C Recommendation for WebCGM 2.0, starting with WebCGM 2.0 Submission.

The WebCGM Working Group is extended until 30 November 2007.

Conference Calls

The telephone conferences will be held weekly for 90 minutes.

Teleconference info [Member restricted].

Meeting minutes and WG discussions are public.

Meetings

Next face to face meeting :

• Not sheduled.

• August 23th-25th 2006 in Cologne, Germany. F2F info page [Member restricted]

WebCGM 2.0 Documents

The Working Group has published the following documents.

Patent Disclosures

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent.

Guidelines for Editors

• Publishing Tools, using Jigedit. (Edit Token to Thierry)
• Create WebCGM questionnaire @@ (Edit Token to Thierry)

Background

• Hypertext Coordination Group
• Document Object Model (DOM) IG
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
• Internationalization Working Group
• Web API Working Group
• W3C Tech Reports
• Air Transport Association (ATA)