Update about OEIT: structured proposal scheduled for October

[Pascal Olivier Gaggero]

Dear Colleagues,

After our first OEIT meeting in Heiligenstadt, we started working on the inputs and additional ideas that we received. In parallel, two students (Colin Jones and Chengbo He) from Andy Adler's group were recruited to work on the practical structure of the XML and some aspects of the software framework, mainly the test environment.

All the developed documents and code are available on the eidors.org svn repository under http://sf.net/p/eidors3d/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/dev/open_eit/, moreover the XML schema document can be downloaded from http://www.open-eit.org/schema. Further developments have made the format more robust and flexible. For instance, it is now possible to use the XML to document many existing file formats (such as *.geo files). This facilitates legacy conversion, as binary files can then be used directly as the binary content in the *.oeit file.

We plan to issue a "structured proposal" of OEIT 1.0 in the course of October. Our goal is to have the first version of OEIT ready for the next EIT conference in April 2014, with file converter tools as part of the EIDORS 3.8 release.

We also acquired the following domain names: open-eit.org and open-eit.com. The website is still under construction.

We also started thinking about a logo and came up with the attached images. What do you think about it? Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Best regards,

Pascal Gaggero, Bartek Grychtol, Hervé Gagnon, Colin Jones, Alistair Boyle and Andy Adler

 

Proposed EIT logo: