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[udig-devel] Fwd: OGC Offers Online Multimedia Presentations of Web Services Initiative
The results from the OWS-3 project of last year are online now. uDig cares because we were DSS Client 1 in the demo situations, and uDig really showed itself to be a nice extensible framework for adding some of the strange things they wanted (SWE, GeoVideo, etc) 

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From: "OGC Press Release" <announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: March 13, 2006 11:42:38 AM PST (CA)
To: tc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Tc] OGC(R) Offers Online Multimedia Presentations of Web Services Initiative 
Reply-To: announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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March 13, 2006, Wayland, Massachusetts - The Open Geospatial
Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces the availability of two online
multimedia demonstrations documenting the milestones achieved in the
OGC Web Services Phase 3 Initiative, (OWS-3). The focus of the
presentations is to share the OWS-3 goals and to provide a synopsis of
the final demonstration. The presentations are available as
interactive Flash and Web-streamed video and illustrate the use of a
variety of draft and approved OpenGIS(R) standards in an emergency
response to a fictitious wildfire threat in Southern California. The
presentations are available at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/demo/ows3/

The interactive demonstration uses the Macromedia Flash player to show
short movies of client applications that illustrate the use of draft
and existing OpenGIS Specifications in a variety of software clients
in response to a toxic release caused by a wildfire. Among the topics
addressed are catalog services, digital rights management, Web mapping
and sensor services. The user can select specific scenes to watch via
a menu or use an index to find specific topics.

The 14 minute video, available in Windows Media, Real Player, and
Quicktime formats, introduces the role the OGC and its Web Service
Initiatives play in the important goal of geospatial interoperability.
It dramatizes the wildfire scenario illustrating how the technology
drives the actions of dispatchers and response personnel in an
emergency operations center, in vehicles and in the field.

Thirteen/WNET New York produced the presentations with the support of
Rosettex Technology and Ventures Group. OGC launched OWS-3 in April
2005 and the final demonstration of capabilities were presented in
October 2005. Participants worked in the following areas:

 -  Common Architecture
 -  Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
 -  Geo-Decision Support Services (GeoDSS)
 -  Geo-Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM)
 -  Open Location Services (OpenLS)

Initiative sponsors included BAE Systems, IONIC Software,
GeoConnections (Canada), Lockheed Martin, MAGIC Services Initiative,
National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, NAVTEQ, Questerra, US Geological Survey (USGS)
and other organizations. Forty-five OGC member organizations
contributed to OWS-3 developments. OWS-3 is dedicated to memory and
contributions of John Vincent.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability Program (IP) is
a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program for rapid
development of proven candidate specifications for consideration for
consensus adoption and public release by the OGC Specification
Program.

The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 300
companies, government agencies and universities participating in a
consensus process to develop publicly available interface
specifications. OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions
that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and
mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to
make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful
with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org.

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