Status and way forward with Publishing DICOM in XML.ppt

Status and way forward with  Publishing DICOM in XML Cor Loef Chair ad hoc group on Publishing DICOM in XML Ad hoc WG on DICOM Standard publication and maintenance in XML Started in WG 10, work item approved September 2002 Formally moved as ad hoc group to WG 6 in 2003 Decision on way forward to DSC in Dec 2003 Rationale DICOM standard big and complex Difficult to maintain coherence Difficult to implement Objectives Create architecture for an XML representation of standard Devise procedures for maintenance and publication Benefits Improve consistency of standard Multiple publication formats Word, PDF, HTML, etc. Improve efficiency of updates Improve efficiency and consistency of implementation, test tools, DICOM toolkits Establish more powerful method of information modeling Plan Draft framework Convert Part 6 Convert significant portions of Part 3 and Part 16 Directory Structure Part Directory Structure main.xml DocBook Widely used DTD for technical content Actively developed and maintained by OASIS Default stylesheets Customizable One content ? multiple renderings XSL-FO HTML … Output (for each Part) FO ? PDF Single HTML page Chunked HTML pages HTML Help Benefit Cross-references Within a part Across parts Current Status Complete conversion of Part 6 Majority of Parts 3 16 converted To do: P3: Tables A.1-1, A.1-2, Annex K (SR encoding example), Annex P (Index) P16: some context groups, Annex F (Japanese) Decide how to represent constraints on IODs, macros, templates Complete conversion of Part 12 For process verification Deliverables: Part 3 Part 6 Part 16 Part 12 Plan Continue with this effort Target: whole DICOM standard in XML as draft available for WG6 review June 2004 Each part will be assessed on the need to structure the text Conversion from Word Tool: Majix Converts RTF to sdocbook DTD (Simplified DocBook) Works mostly, but needs tweaking Prose and “simple” tables converted with this Other tools are available, but none can do this perfectly C