Cave Surveys and XML

[Peter MATTHEWS]

Cave-surveying List Members,

If you followed up Martin Laverty's posting below, you may have found that 
you could not access recent postings to the web archive of the CaveXML 
mailing list.

Apologies for the inconvenience - the web archive has now been fixed.

Shortly we plan to begin working our way through a cave survey data model 
until we have an agreed model. Then we will be able to determine all the 
data fields which will need to be included in the CaveXML transfer format. 
To check it out, choose "Current Task" from the site's navigation bar. But 
please note that this is still the initial draft of that page, and nothing 
on it has been agreed by the working group yet.

Peter Matthews
UIS CDX Working Group


At 15:49 06-07-02 +0000, martinl@talk21.com wrote:

>For a short period in early 2001 this list hosted an intense discussion on 
>how XML might be applied to cave surveying. So intense was the discussion 
>that it was felt it needed its own arena and this was created around a 
>website at
>
>  http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/caving/cavexml/
>
>The website, its associated email list and archives are well worth looking 
>at and I would like to encourage all of you not already aware of it to 
>visit it.
>Work has progressed at varying paces, but has recently been replanned and 
>a model of the entities involved in surveying caves has been published for 
>discussion.
>There are currently about 30 people on the CaveXML list and we would like 
>to invite as many other cavers as possible to participate through at least 
>overseeing and at best improving our work. With at least 25 countries 
>represented on this list your contributions will give a valuable 
>additional international perspective on the already polyglot, but largely 
>anglophone, discussion. XML is inherently international and the first 
>major project is to develop a specification for the interchange of survey 
>data; however its outcome will surely be influential in the development of 
>associated areas such as data archiving, data processing, and survey drawing.
>
>Martin Laverty on behalf of CaveXML
>( http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/caving/cavexml/ )
>
>(A UIS initiative for a common Cave Data Exchange Format from the UIS Cave 
>Informatics Group Cave Data Exchange Format Working Group)
>
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