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The work on the SAIF modeling paradigm and the CSN classes was carried out principally by Mark Sondheim, Henry Kucera and Peter Friesen, all with the British Columbia government at the time. Dale Lutz and Don Murray of [http://www.safe.com/reader_writerPDF/saif.pdf Safe Software] developed the Object Syntax Notation and the [http://www.safe.com/reader_writerPDF/saif.pdf Reader and Writer] software that became part of the Feature Manipulation Engine.

SAIF was brought to the attention of Michael Stonebraker and Kenn Gardels of the UniveristyUniversity of California at Berkeley, and then to those working on the initial version of the Open Geospatial Interoperability Specification (OGIS), the first efforts of what became the [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium] (OGC). A series of 18 submissions to the ISO SQL Multimedia working group also helped tie SAIF to the original ISO work on geospatial features.

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.

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Surveys and Resource Mapping Branch. Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, Release 3.2, Formal Definition. 1995. (also Release 3.1 (1994); 3.0 (1993); 2.0, (1992); 1.0 (1991); and 0.1, (1990)) Surveys and Resource Mapping Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks. 258p. Also published by the Canadian General Standards Board, CAN/CGSB-171.1-95. Available by request from the GeoBC Service Desk, http://www.ilmb.gov.bc.ca/geobc/servicedesk.html.

== External Links ==

[http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/64080/publication.html Government of Canada Publications, CGIS-SAIF Release 3.2]

[http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/sequoia/schema/html/saif/saif31spec.html SAIF Release 3.1]

[http://docs.safe.com/fme/pdf/FMEReadersWriters.pdf Safe Software, 2010, FME Readers and Writers, (Spatial Archive and Interchange Format, pp. 183 - 191)]