An overview of the Product Data Hyperstandard CD-ROM Prototype

This paper describes the contents of theProduct Data Hypestandard CD-ROM Prototype containing information related to product data standards. HyperStandard is a generic termdescribing the application of hypertext and multimedia technologies to standards ingeneral. The CD-ROM contains bothbrowsers for perusing the documents, and a number of otheri tmsof interest to the product data community. These include: IGES Version 5; the CALS specificatio~; pdimhary STEP drafts,PDES, Inc. technical documents; theNET PDES Toolkit; plus miscellaneous other pieces of information. (The sources of data for the document browsers on the CBROM prototype were the original electronic documents used to print those documents.) AU of these data combined should serve as a useful repository of information for the community of t echni calexperts developing product data standards. This variety of information has been asembl edto demonstrate that CD-ROM's are a convenient and costsffective d. u for useby the people involved inproduct data standardization efforts. Background The PDES (Product Data Exchange using activity [FurlaniW, Smith881 andSTEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data) standards effort are creating an evolving series of standards for product data exchange. InDe cember of 1988 most of the-PDES documents w e collected into a "first workingdraft" and circulated to the international community for comment. One major portion of this document was called the PIM (Integrated koduct Infor mation Model) and it was used as source material for the interactive browsers Certain trade names and company products are mentioned in the text or identified in an illustration in order to adequately specify the experimental procedure and equipment used. In no case does such identification impiy recornmen 1 dation or endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, nor does it imply that the products are necessarily the best available for the purpose. The work described was funded by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding & Logistics) of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright.