OOSTethys featured as OGC's Website of the Month

OOSTethys participants initiated an OGC Interoperability Experiment in December 2006 to engage data managers and scientists in the Ocean-Observing community to advance their understanding and application of various OGC specifications, solidify demonstrations for Ocean Science application areas, harden software implementations, and produce candidate OGC Best Practices documents that can be used to inform the broader ocean-observing community.

The OOSTethys website describes developments in ocean-observing systems, with a focus on progress toward a system-of-ocean-observing-systems. OOSTethys provides a community-developed set of software tools that implement OGC specifications. It also offers guidance documents ("cookbooks") to help data providers get started using standards-based data-exchange capabilities.

Excerpt from OGC newsletter.

In addition to describing the OOSTethys project, the OGC newsletter highlights some of the downloads and useful resources available at the project website.