ICAN Workshop 4

11/16/2009 - 00:00
11/20/2009 - 23:59
ICAN Vocabulary Mapping/Ontologies Workshop 4 for Coastal Web Atlases
The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) is a newly-founded informal group of organizations who have been meeting over the past two years to scope and implement data interoperability approaches to coastal web atlases (CWAs). The mission/strategic aim of ICAN is to share experiences and to find common solutions to CWA development (e.g., user and developer guides, handbooks and articles on best practices, information on standards and web services, expertise and technical support directories, education, outreach, and funding opportunities, etc.), while ensuring maximum relevance and added value for the end users. This includes the development of controlled vocabularies and ontologies for the data and tools resident within CWAs. Workshop 4 in Trieste will further the work on ICAN's atlas interoperability proof-of-concept, which uses ontologies, as well as Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, namely Catalogue Services for the Web (CSW), with registered Web Map Services (WMS). We also hope to contribute to MMI's ontology registry.
Event Location: 
Italy: Trieste, UNESCO University
Event Website(s): 
ICAN
Contact Name: 
Dawn Wright
Contact Phone: 
(541) 737-1229
Contact Email: 
dawn@dusk.geo.orst.edu
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