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gils: Re: Notice: OGC Seeks Input for Geospatial Catalog Services

Re: Notice: OGC Seeks Input for Geospatial Catalog Services

Tom Rogers (tomr@sirsi.com)
Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:15:59 -0600 

Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 11:15:59 -0600
Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19961101130825.7057a236@206.154.245.35>
To: gils@cni.org
From: Tom Rogers <tomr@sirsi.com>
Subject: Re: Notice: OGC Seeks Input for Geospatial Catalog Services


FYI

Tom Rogers
<tomr@sirsi.com>


At 12:47 PM 10/31/96 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> This message is being posted to many lists for the widest possible
> circulation. We apologize for cross-postings.
> 
> The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), an open membership consortium,
> solicits information from industry to guide the OGC Technical Committee 
> in writing the OpenGIS Catalog Services Interfaces part of the OpenGIS
> Specification, a software specification for interfaces and common 
> services that enable interoperable geoprocessing.
> 
> Software compliant with OpenGIS Catalog Services Interface Specifications
> will soon be critical to users and providers of network resident geospatial
> data and geoprocessing software. The volume of geospatial data is growing
> exponentially and geodata is becoming available on a growing number of
> network sites. Within a year, software with OpenGIS Specification compliant
> interfaces will provide transparent remote access to heterogeneous geodata
> and geoprocessing resources. Digital catalogs, traders, agents, etc.
> enabled by interfaces and services compliant with the pending OpenGIS
> Catalog Services Interfaces Specification will enable users to search for
> geodata and geoprocessing resources at thousands of such sites (much as Web
> browsers and search engines enable users to search thousands of html
> files), but the completeness of the OpenGIS Catalog Services Interfaces
> Specification depends on complete representation of the concerns of users
> and providers.
> 
> Whether or not you are a member of OGC, if you work with digital catalog
> architectures, geospatial catalogs, and related technologies, please 
> review and respond to "OGC Request Number 3, OpenGIS Services Working 
> Group, A Request for Information: OpenGIS Catalog Service Interfaces" on
> http://www.opengis.org. The OGC Technical Committee OpenGIS Services
> Working Group will consider all responses in their work to create
> consensus-derived specifications for common services that will ensure
> optimum interoperability in publishing and discovering geodata and
> geoprocessing resources on networks. The Working Group will accept white
> papers, research papers, product literature, viewgraphs or other documents
> describing relevant technologies.
> 
> This OGC Request for Information (RFI) was first announced August 30, 1996
> along with a separate RFI for Earth imaging and a Request for Proposals for
> implementation specifications for simple geometry.  Responses to the
> Catalog Services RFI are due December 16, 1996.
> 
> If you have questions, please call Greg Buehler (812-829-2248) or send
> email to techdesk@opengis.org. Please forward this notice to others who may
> be interested.
> 
> 
> About OGC
> 
> OGC, a consortium of more than eighty corporations, government agencies,
> non-governmental organizations, and universities, coordinates collaborative
> development of open geoprocessing software technologies and helps
> organizations work together to develop business approaches related to this
> new technology. OGC's goal is to create common interfaces that integrate
> geographic information systems (GIS), Earth imaging, digital cartography,
> facilities management, navigation, surveying, and other spatial
> technologies so that users will have unimpeded network-based access to
> heterogeneous geodata and geoprocessing resources.  OGC's efforts ensure
> that geographic information of all kinds will be an important and fully
> integrated part of the emerging national and global information
> infrastructures, serving a wide range of human needs.
> 
> 
> OpenGIS is a trademark of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
> 
>                     --- end ---
> 
> 
> 
> Lance McKee
> Vice President, Corporate Communications
> Open GIS Consortium, Inc.
> 35 Main Street, Suite 5
> Wayland, MA  01778
> USA
> tel: 508-655-5858
> fax: 508-655-2237
> lmckee@opengis.org

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