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| Project Overview |
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| The Interoperability &
Business Objects (IBO) Project has proceeded
through several stages over the past few years,
including member workshops, member workgroups, a
Request for Comments cycle, a Request for
Technology cycle, and the publication of a
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Since the publication of
the specification snapshot in April 1999, the
project has been inactive pending further
specification and software development work by
the Request for Technology (RFT) submitters.
- The
OpenSpirit Alliance and PrismTech are
revising and expanding the Subsurface
Interpretation submission material in the
course of developing commercial products
that have been announced for release in
Q2 of 2000.
- The
OMEGA II Project, source of one of the
RFT submissions has been completed.
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is expressed interest in expanding the
scope of work in interoperability
specifications, particularly in the
Drilling Domain and further in the
Subusrface Interpretaion Domain. The form
and timing of this specification work is
not yet clear.
- The
OpenSpirit Alliance started work on
specifications for E&P Viewer
Services in 1999. POSC and OpenSpirit
conducted a workshop on this work in June
1999. The meeting notes from the
workshop are available.
- POSC
conducted a Request for Comments (RFC) in
the area of Application Interaction
services and protocols in 1999. The responses
to the RFC are available.
POSC and OpenSpirit conducted a workshop
on this RFC. The meeting notes from the
workshop are available.
New
projects will be organized as member interest
warrants, either to do further work on the
Subsurface Interpretation Domain specifications
or to work in other areas. To express interest in
organizing an interoperability project, please
contact Those members interested in helping to
form such a group, please contact Alan Doniger (Doniger@POSC.org).
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Member interest is
encouraged for the formation of an
Interoperability and Business Objects Focus
Group.
- to
encourage coordination among project
developing interoperability and business
object specifications.
- to
help manage the incremental development
process, encouraging projects to use what
has already been defined and to share
what they are doing.
- to
actively encourage coordination of plans
and technical approaches.
- to
manage a dialogue on the guidelines and
procedures used by POSC for developing
and distributing interoperability
specifications.
Those
members interested in helping to form such a
group, please contact Alan Doniger (Doniger@POSC.org).
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| Project Funding |
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The
work done in 1999 to prepare and publish the
interoperability specification snapshots was
funded primarily by five project sponsor
companies: Chevron, Elf, PrismTech, Shell, and
Statoil. Membership fees support ongoing support
activities, including coordination with other
ongoing projects. New interoperability project
work will be funded by a combination of
membership fees and project fees, as appropriate. |
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| 1999 Revised RFT
Submissions |
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Between
the completion of the Request for Technology
(RFT) process in September 1998 and the
publication of the Specification Snapshot in
April 1999, POSC worked with the RFT submitter
companies to address the issues and limitations
identified in the RFT Evaluation Report. During
the conduct of this work, POSC received several
subsequent revised submissions. These submissions
represent ongoing work by related projects,
including:
- Project
OMEGA II (completed in April 1999)
- OpenSpirit
Subsurface Interpretation Version 1
(commercial beta release at the end of
May 1999)
- OpenSpirit
Subsurface Interpretation Version 2
(initial release at the end of July 1999)
As
indicated above, additional submissions are
anticipated from OpenSpirit Alliance and
PrismTech based on their current commercial
development work.
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| 1999 Specification
Snapshots |
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During
the first few months of 1999, the project team
used revised submission materials and the RFT
evaluation results as the basis for the
preparation of interoperability specification
snapshots in March and April 1999. These snapshots
are not of sufficient completeness or quality to
be formal specification releases. They are the
first iterations that should lead to a formal
interoperability specification release at a
future date. The snapshots are posted
on the POSC Web site for review by the
submitters, by POSC members, and by other
projects that are involved in the definition of
interoperability specifications using business
objects.
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