CIMSpy Standard Edition
CIMSpy is a CIM-based data engineering tool designed to support CIM-based model exchanging. It provides a wide range of CIM-based data engineering functionalities, including CIM browsing, editing, validation, merging/partition, comparison, and visualization. The tool has been widely used in the CIM community, including the last four CIM InterOP tests. For a quick introduction to the tool, check the presentation: Overview of CIMSpy, presented at the General session and the Tool breakout session of CIM User Group Meeting, Spring 2009.
The following list summarizes some of the key features of CIMSpy Standard Edition (CIMSpy SE). CIMSpy SE is a freeware with limited functionalities supported, including CIM browsing and limited validation. It was designed to support the EPRI CIM InterOP tests. For the full functionalitiess and more advanced features of the tool, please check CIMSpy Enterprise Edition (CIMSpy EE). Recently Power Info LLC has delivered the CIM data engineering solution kit (CIMdesk) to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) and its 42 Transmission System Operator (TSO) members in 34 European countries. CIMdesk was built on the top of CIMSpy EE. Basically, CIMSpy EE was customized to support the CIM profile and the business processes specially designed to support model exchange between ENTSO-E and its TSO members.
Features:
- Organizing flat CIM/XML documents into various model hierarchies, making it possible to explore the information model from different points of view.
- Transforming computer-friendly XML documents into human-friendly HTML Web pages, supporting visualization features like animation, highlighting, and sorting, etc.
- Providing several navigation mechanisms to facilitate model browsing, including tree-based hierarchical navigation, backward/forward display navigation, and instance-to-instance hyperlink navigation.
- Offing a variety of searching strategies including by-name, by-rdf:ID, content matching, and XPath query, etc.
- Facilitating model debugging by offering two types of CIM model validators, i.e. the schema-driven model validators designed to validate the CIM/XML against CIM/CPSM schema for standard compliance and the rule-based validator aimed to detect any domain-specific modeling errors such as network topology errors.
- Supporting both full and incremental CIM/XML, allowing users to check an incremental model update against its base model.
- Optimized to handle large power system models and capable of loading CIM/XML documents of hundreds of MB in size.
- CIMSpy SE was built as a standalone DHTML application hosted in Internet Explorer. It is extremely easy to use. All you need is the basic Web browsing experience.
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