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'''Multimedia:''' Multimedia objects can also be objects in a SAIF dataset and referenced accordingly. For example, image and sound files associated with a given ___location could be included.

== Model Transformations and Related Software Applications ==

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This notion of model to model transformation was deemed to be realistic only with an object oriented approach. It was recognized that scripts to carry out such transformations could in fact add information content. When Safe Software developed the [http://www.safe.com/products/overview.php Feature Manipulation Engine] (FME), it was in large measure with the express purpose of supporting such transformations. The [http://archive.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/crgb/pba/saif/ FMEBC] was a freely available software application that supported a wide range of transformations using SAIF as the hub. The FME was developed as a commercial offering in which the intermediary could be held in memory instead of as a SAIF dataset.

== History ==

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Today SAIF is of historical interest only. It is significant as a precursor to the [Geography Markup Language|Geography Markup Language] and as the formative element in the development of the widely used Feature Manipulation Engine.

== References ==