AFP Consortium publishes new version of the Metadata Object Content Architecture (MOCA) Reference
BOULDER, Colo., December 16, 2024 – The Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) Consortium, an international consortium of print and presentation industry stakeholders working together to further enhance the AFP document architecture, is pleased to announce the availability of the second edition of the Metadata Object Content Architecture (MOCA) Reference, document number AFPC-0013-02. The new reference includes support to make AFP more universally accessible, as well as support for products that send or receive metadata in the Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS), AFP’s data stream between print servers and printers.
First published in 2014, the original MOCA architecture defines a syntax for carrying metadata in AFP. This architecture was leveraged as the basis for the Metadata Guide for AFP (AFPC-0018-01, published in November 2023), after having been essential to the implementation of AFP/A (AFP Archive) previously; AFP/A was published as ISO 18565: Document management — AFP/Archive. The Metadata Guide for AFP defined a consistent tagging schema to enable Universal Accessibility (UA) in AFP, as well as making indexing more complete and web searches easier, among other possible uses.
New in the second edition of the MOCA Reference is support for the new AFP tagging definition defined in the Metadata Guide, as well as support for metadata in IPDS. Part of the IPDS support was the definition of a new MS1 Subset of MOCA, to increase interoperability between different IPDS implementations.
For details, please refer to the new reference on the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/publications.html
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability, and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been used to produce mission critical documents such as bills, statements, and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management, and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self-contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of over 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the AFP Consortium has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and applications such as accessibility features, as well as many other functionalities. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
For more information, visit the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org.
First published in 2014, the original MOCA architecture defines a syntax for carrying metadata in AFP. This architecture was leveraged as the basis for the Metadata Guide for AFP (AFPC-0018-01, published in November 2023), after having been essential to the implementation of AFP/A (AFP Archive) previously; AFP/A was published as ISO 18565: Document management — AFP/Archive. The Metadata Guide for AFP defined a consistent tagging schema to enable Universal Accessibility (UA) in AFP, as well as making indexing more complete and web searches easier, among other possible uses.
New in the second edition of the MOCA Reference is support for the new AFP tagging definition defined in the Metadata Guide, as well as support for metadata in IPDS. Part of the IPDS support was the definition of a new MS1 Subset of MOCA, to increase interoperability between different IPDS implementations.
For details, please refer to the new reference on the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org/publications.html
About AFP and the AFP Consortium
Advanced Function Presentation is a document architecture that offers performance, manageability, and integrity benefits meeting the needs of large volume, variable data applications. AFP technology has historically been used to produce mission critical documents such as bills, statements, and policies and contains methods for job ticketing, effective server-based resource management, and the powerful Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) for total output integrity. In addition to being a rich, self-contained native document language, AFP is also a powerful container architecture capable of bringing full resource and production management capabilities to bear on encapsulated formats such as PDF and TIFF.
The AFP Consortium is an international open standards body consisting of over 30 companies committed to the continued development of the AFP architecture. Since 2004, the AFP Consortium has developed open standards for accurate and consistent ICC-based color management, high-speed complex text, page group recovery within high-volume production, the IS/3 interchange set for compliance, and metadata support for AFP Archive and applications such as accessibility features, as well as many other functionalities. The AFP Consortium will continue in its role to grow and maintain the complete set of AFP architecture.
For more information, visit the AFP Consortium website: https://www.afpconsortium.org.
