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gils: Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. Announces New GILS Service Targeted at Smaller Government Agencies

Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. Announces New GILS Service Targeted at Smaller Government Agencies

James P. Restivo (restivo@bluangel.com)
Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:17:08 -0000 

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From: "James P. Restivo" <restivo@bluangel.com>
To: "'gils@cni.org'" <gils@cni.org>
Subject: Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. Announces New GILS Service Targeted at Smaller Government Agencies 
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 08:17:08 -0000


Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. Announces New Meta Data Information 
Service

GILS Service Targeted at Smaller Government Agencies

VALLEY FORGE, PA (February 19, 1997) - Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. 
introduces Thursday a new service designed to help government agencies 
comply with the requirement to make information available to the 
public over the Internet. The new Blue Angel Government Information 
Locator Service (GILS) takes advantage of several new Blue Angel 
software products to provide an easy-to-use, inexpensive service for 
publishing and maintaining government agency information for public 
use.

"Government agencies have a need to make their information available 
to the public in GILS format as mandated in law under the Paperwork 
Reduction Act, 44 USC 3511 (Title 44, United States Code, section 
3511)", said Jim Restivo, president of Blue Angel Technologies. 
"Larger agencies typically have the resources and expertise needed to 
organize and publish their data on the Internet. But smaller agencies 
tend to have difficulty making this happen", Restivo continued. "The 
Blue Angel GILS service is geared to those government agencies that 
don't have the resources or expertise to effectively comply with the 
government's GILS requirements".

GILS is a standard that is being used by government and commercial 
entities around the world to define a common structure for 
information.

The GILS service is specifically designed so that it can be used 
effectively regardless of level of technical proficiency. "For 
example", explained Margaret St. Pierre, chief technical officer, 
"those customers that are not comfortable working with computers or 
the GILS standard can submit information in hard copy form and Blue 
Angel Technologies will format, publish and maintain the information 
for them. On the other hand, those customers that would like to do so 
may publish and maintain their own information over the Internet using 
Blue Angel's new software tools".

At the heart of the new GILS service is Blue Angel Technologies Meta 
Data Server (MDS) (TM) that is accessed from the Internet through one 
of the many popular web browsers like Netscape Navigator(TM) or 
Microsoft Explorer(TM). "Customers tend to be comfortable working with 
browsers, so we have developed a Java applet that works within the 
browser ", continued St. Pierre. "Besides being easy to use, the Java 
applet is platform independent which is a necessity when dealing with 
government agencies that have such a wide variety of hardware."

Blue Angel Technologies, Inc. is located in Valley Forge, 
Pennsylvania. For more information about the new GILS service visit 
http://www.gils.com.

Editors' Contact:

Blue Angel Technologies, Inc
Valley Forge Woods
1220 Valley Forge Road, Unit #44
P.O. Box 987
Valley Forge, PA  19482-0987

Phone: 610-917-9200
FAX:     610-917-9958
email:    restivo@bluangel.com
Web:    http://www.bluangel.com

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