Composition System Replacement

GPO is actively working on a project to replace its legacy composition system. The project, called Composition System Replacement (CSR), will comprise the necessary technology and business practices to enable GPO to replace or integrate all existing discrete applications, utilities, and processes currently used by GPO and its users to compose and create files optimized for printing and access of select Congressional and Federal agency publications.

Key Documents

The CSR ConOps: Describes the desired characteristics of Composition System Replacement (CSR) from the user’s viewpoint.

• CSR ConOps V1.1: April 2008
• CSR ConOps V1.0: November 2006

Requirements Document: Defines the requirements for CSR and is intended to communicate those requirements to the technical community who will build the system.

• CSR RD V1.0: April 2008
• Preliminary RD V1.0: March 2007

The Supplement to the Preliminary Requirements Document illustrates specific requirements that the CSR team believes are better communicated by the use of graphic examples.

Additional Information:

http://xml.house.gov/ provides information about the ongoing work of the U.S. House of Representatives in relation to the eXtensible Markup Language. It is important to note that the DTDs and examples presented have not been finalized and may be extended over time.

The following reference manuals are provided for a more complete technical overview of the existing Microcomp system:

• Publishing from a Full Text Data Base
• GPO Coding for Selected Publications
• Grid List
• Character Sorted Table Showing Entity Names and Unicode Values
• Conversion Tables
• Subformat Generation--Locator
• Subformat Generation--SGML

The following XML and locator files will be used by GPO for benchmarking processing speed. The requirement for processing speed is referenced in the CSR Preliminary RD V1.0 under Metrics on page 35, requirement #3.2.8.1

Previous Industry Day - March 19, 2007

On Monday, March 19th the United States Government Printing Office hosted an Industry Day for Composition System Replacement (CSR). This event focused on the following CSR  areas:

Input Data, Content and Formatting (Content Types, Character Formatting, Layout and Content Linking), Output, User Interface

The event slide presentation provides an overview of what was presented at Industry Day. The Industry Day Q&A Notes will provide insight into the questions and comments that were discussed during the event.

The contact list of vendors who registered for CSR Industry Day.

GPO has also posted its responses to vendor questions that were submitted after the Industry Day event. This is a composite of all questions that were submitted by vendors.