NIST AnIML Proposal

The National Institute of Standards and Technology currently dedicates two full-time developers to the development of AnIML. We periodically make our contributions available on this site.

Documents

AnIML Proposal Synopsis [PDF] [Postscript] [DVI] - two-page overview of our proposal (Nov 18, 2003)
Presentation at FACSS Business Meeting [PDF] [PPT] - basic concepts (Oct 21, 2003)

Current Schemas

We are using the XML Schema specification to describe the syntactical structure of AnIML files. This section links to the current versions. You may also browse the schema directory which includes previous releases.

AnIML Core Schema v0.1 (Documentation) - XML Schema governing all AnIML Documents (Nov 18, 2003)
AnIML Technique Schema v0.1 (Documentation) - XML Schema governing Technique Definitions (Nov 18, 2003)

Examples

Still under development. We will post basic examples in the coming days.

ToDo List

The following subjects have not yet been properly addressed:

Units

Feedback

We are actively soliciting feedback from the community to improve this proposal. Please send your comments and suggestions to burkhard.schaefer(at)nist.gov and dominik.poetz(at)nist.gov. Discussions should go on the animl-develop mailing list.

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