I was not sure where to put this thread aka email I received, however I thought it might be relevant for some of us.
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Dear Art,
This e-mail is just an FYI regarding some work occurring in the printing standards industry, which might be interesting to your blog readers.
I'm currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE-ISTO PWG Semantic Model working group and we are developing a mapping standard to help with job ticket normalization, which is meant to help support automated workflow integration.
In my opinion, one of the aspects currently limiting the easy implementation of workflow automation is that there is no simple way to transfer user intent from one job ticketing environment to another.
Sample use case – a customer has an existing Microsoft Windows operating system based workflow, which develops output to be printed. The customer now wants to send the output to an outsource print shop that will be able to print the workflow using a modern digital inkjet full color press. The print shop has asked the customer to submit the workflow as PDF with a JDF job ticket.
The issue: How can the customer transform the user intent specified within the Microsoft paradigm (DEVMODE or the Microsoft PrintTicket) into the JDF format?
The Solution: In calendar 2012, the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group published a Print Job Ticket standard based on the PWG Semantic Model (a widely adopted industry standard now more than 10 years old). In calendar 2013, the PWG is now building a mapping standard linking the PWG PJT format to a number of other known job ticketing standards. This effort will allow customers to use the PWG PJT format as a normalizing agent so that they can convert one job ticketing format to another. In the example above, it would allow a parser for converting the Microsoft PrintTicket format to JDF to be constructed to resolve the issue.
Once a year the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group co-locates one of its face to face meetings with another standards body known as the OpenPrinting Working Group (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting).
The OpenPrinting workgroup has developed an abstracted Job Ticketing interface known as the Job Ticketing API or JTAPI. They are hoping to use a Google Summer of Code project this year to create a PWG Job-Ticket backend for libJTAPI (Job Ticket API). If they are successful, the project will place open source C code in the public domain, which software developers can use as an example for constructing Job Ticket parsers that can convert one job ticket format to another (see: http://www.linuxfoundation.org...enprinting-projects).
The upcoming co-located meeting is being hosted by Apple at their facility in Cupertino, CA. The dates are May 14th – May 17th and the agenda can be reviewed here:
http://www.pwg.org/chair/meeti..._2013_cupertino.html
The JTAPI project will be covered at the OpenPrinting Plenary on May 14th and the work on the mapping standard (Mapping Related Standards to/from PWG PJT v1.0 (PJTMAP)) will occur during the Semantic Model Working Group session on May 16th. The meetings of the PWG are open to all so interested parties are encouraged to either call-in or register to attend.
Thanks.
Best Regards,
/Paul
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