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The Mail.dat Working Group defines a relational database of nineteen "connected" files describing each characteristic that can exist within a mailing. As such, the standard has contributed to important gains in efficiency, economy, and strategy enhancement. The key to Mail.dat's impact has been its ability to facilitate efficient and process-enhancing communications. Co-Chairs: Bob Schimek, BCC Software, Inc., A Bowe Bell + Howell Company Wallace Vingelis, WindowBook
Mail.dat Specification
►Link to the Mail.dat Specifications |
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The IDEAlliance ADIS Working Group aims to define a uniform specification for the domestic and international interchange of address data. It is based on storing the parts of an address, or address elements, and then combining them together using standardized templates to create output formats, or renditions, for particular mail pieces. |
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The PROSE Working Group defines a specification that is intended to be a standardized method for Publishers to communicate job specifications to Commercial Printers. |
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Working with the Canada Post Corporation, the Canada Mail Working Group seeks to enhance the entry of US mail into Canadian mailstream. Chair: Todd Black, Time Inc. |
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The papiNet® Working Group is a global community involved in supply chain processes for the forest and paper industries. The Core Working group develops XML B2B messages to facilitate efficient business processes for the paper and forest products industries. Chair: Stefan Eibl-Torok, SCA Central Workgroup Facilitator: Tom Meniga, freecom internet services GmbH |
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Co-Chairs: Mark Buckalew, Rodale, Inc. |
The mission of the Logistics & Transportation Committee is to provide a collaborative forum to develop best practices to allow process standardization, build efficiencies and cost reduction, and increase the flow of business information for all partners in single copy (newsstand) and postal logistics and transportation.
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Mail.dat - IDEAlliance Standard 130-1995
To Participate
Join the Mail.dat Working Group |
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ADIS 08-1 is made up of a number of files, combined into an XML package and a documentation package.
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The IDEAlliance ADIS Working Group aims to define a uniform specification for the domestic and international interchange of address data. It is based on storing the parts of an address, or address elements, and then combining them together using standardized templates to create output formats, or renditions, for particular mailpieces. It includes data about the addresses, such as whether they are complete or missing particular elements that affect address quality, and in general, any mail production variables that may appear on a mailpiece. |
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