New York Upper Bay

Most recent applications

- TaxMap, Topic-based navigation of tax publications and forms for the IRS call centers.
- Auditing of TaxMap
- Hyperlinked dictionaries (IEML)


The Data Projection Model

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A team effort

Teamwork is key to success. Infoloom partners with other companies and organizations, including Coolheads Consulting and Plexus Scientific. Michel Biezunski is proud to be a member of the XML Guild and a member of the ISO/IEC SC34 standardization group.

XML Guild

Breaking News: IRS Tax Map on the Web

February 13, 2009. IRS is now publishing Tax Map on the Web, and the contents is frequently updated when new publications and forms are published. Tax Map is available at http://taxmap.ntis.gov
A version containing materials for Small Businesses is available at: http://www.sbrg.irs.gov

Click HERE for the Small Business version of Tax Map.

IRS Tax Map is produced by Infoloom, using TMLoom technology. For more information, see below.

Healthcare

A web site, healthdollar.org was launched in January 2009 to leverage information technologies to support a reform of the healthcare system.

Link Factory

We specialize in creating links. The links we create are checked in order to guarantee high quality products.

Visualization of XML Data

We specialize in processing XML data in a way that make them accessible for everyone. We create our own set of tools by using tools that are available, and customizing them for specific application contexts. We privilege tools based on standard XML open source technologies, to process the data according to presentation layout design schemes that are defined by our customers. We also process SGML documents.

We process our customer information on our own machines, which are backed up every day. We deliver information to our customers through the Internet, as often as needed.

We not only render the information we are been given in a readable form, but we also process information in a way to create navigational aids, such as tables of contents, electronic indexes (aka "topic maps"), dictionaries, various tables, etc.

Innovative Services

We absorb the cost of early adoption by proposing only solutions that we have designed and/or tested, and that we know for sure are working. We rely on industry standards as much as possible, including some that we have helped to create. Michel Biezunski, of Infoloom, is the co-inventor of the Topic Maps standard (ISO/IEC 13250). In 2006, he invented the Data Projection Model. We develop applications based on standard technologies, including XML, Unicode, Topic Maps, RDF, XSLT, Python, SQL, and PHP.

Integration of Information Systems

Manhattan Bridge, the Pedestrian Perspective

We integrate information systems by enabling multiple perspectives. A perspective is a way to look at information from a certain angle, that results in a particular view. Depending what users want to see, several perspectives are possible. We use a powerful model to enable multiple perspectives, called the Data Projection Model. Click here for applications and implementations.

Production Services

We specialize in producing industrial quality web sites, by assembling various components through a combination of automatic methods and human input. We use existing standards to design such applications. We use standard tools to implement applications, as well as the tools we develop ourselves.

We use TMLoom, a technology existing now for more than 10 years, for producing topic map applications, and MaxLoom, an implementation of the Data Projection Model, to produce audit trails based on binary relations.

TMLoom is used to create web pages, featuring topic screens connecting pages coming from XML, SGML, HTML, Ascii, CSV files, MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint or OpenOffice Writer/Calc/Impress formats. Topics are created on the fly using automatic methods. Specific methods and processes are developed for the individual constraints and requirements of our customers. Products made with TMLoom include IRS TaxMap, GCA Conference Proceedings, Powerpoint Slides for Egov, etc. See list here.

MaxLoom has been used for auditing the IRS TaxMap production process. Demos are available here.

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Maintenance of information systems

Maintenance of an information system is often overlooked, although it is often what absorbs the bulk of the costs. Our maintenance strategy complements our auditing strategy. Maintenance is greatly facilitated by a deep understanding of what is happening and when it is happening. This is especially true for the features that result from a complex combination of processes, some of them automatic, and others manual. The key is auditability.

Auditable Information Systems

Where does a given item of information come from? Why is a link present and how was it set up here in the first place? Can anybody explain why a given information item belongs to a particular category? Answering such questions is possible when information systems are auditable. The Data Projection Model makes this possible. It implies a methodology and can be implemented as a software component within an information system.

Complex Information Networks

We design and build user-friendly systems containing complex navigation systems for easy viewing. On demand, we make these information networks compliant with RDF (Resource Description Framework) or the Topic Maps standard.

Financial Reporting

Infoloom is interested in XBRL-based projects. XBRL stands for the Extensible Business Reporting Language. See xbrl.org for more details.

Consulting and Training

We provide strategic consulting for CIOs, project managers, developers and content experts. We provide training for users, when necessary, and we do workshops with content experts who provide input to information systems.

Seminars and workshops on usability, design, auditability and maintenance of information systems can be organized on demand. Contact Infoloom for more information.

 

Infoloom - 465 84th Street D3 Brooklyn NY 11209. Voice: +1 (718) 921-0901. Email:info@infoloom.com  Web: http://www.infoloom.com.
Page created October 16, 2006, last updated January 29, 2009. All photographs by Michel Biezunski.