[DDI-SRG] New DDI Tools web site and Foundation Tools Road Map

[Pascal Heus]

Dear All:
the DDI Foundation Tools Program (DDI-FTP) is pleased to announce the 
availability of a new web site dedicated to DDI Tools at 
http://tools.ddialliance.org

The site is intended for DDI users and developers and provides access to 
applications, software librararies, documentation, example files and XSL 
transformations that support the DDI-XML specification. It is also the 
home for the DDI Foundation Tools Program, an initiative aiming to 
provide application developers with a set of reusable components, 
operating in a harmonized environment based on open source technologies, 
to manage DDI metadata and their related data and resources 
(http://tools.ddialliance.org/?lvl1=ftp).

The launch of the site coincides with the initial release of the DDI-FTP 
Road Map (http://tools.ddialliance.org/?lvl1=ftp&lvl2=roadmap), a 
document that describes and prioritizes the different components of the 
toolkit, to be used by contributors to focus and coordinate their 
development efforts.

As always, we wish for the web site and the tools program to be 
community driven and your comments and suggestions are most welcomed. 
Agencies or individuals interested in contributing to the DDI-FTP are 
also encouraged to read more about the initiative or contact us for 
further information.

All the best,

The DDI-FTP team
tools at ddialliance.org