B. McLeod

1
GeoConnections Discovery Portal and CGDI Common
services update

• B. McLeod
• July 8, 2003

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V3 Discovery Portal Overview

• Next Generation Trader Directory Services
• Support for multiple content standards and
  thesauri
• True bilingual entries and bilingual searching
• Enhanced Programmer Toolkit - new presentation
  independent output (XML) supports rapid portal
  development (Geobase portal, NRCan Earth Sciences
  sector portal, Georgia basin application, DFO
  Geoportal, Northern Information Network)
• OGC Web Services - Integration with CGDI Services
  Catalogue and Services (discovery/management of
  services metadata)

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V3 Overview cont

• Enhanced Data Model - true associations for
  distributors, originators, custodians to data
  products and services
• Organizations are Browsable by Organization Type
• Federal Government Departments
• Provincial Governments
• Commercial, Municipal, NGOs
• Unpublished Entries
• suppliers can save data in advertising forms as
  unpublished then come back another day to
  finish it and publish it
• Flexible Results Management (coming soon)

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CGDI Common Services

• GAD Gazetteer Service
• provides complex geometry for toponymic
  information in GML 2.1.2
• Virtual linking of placenames and features
• Now an alternative to Canadian Geographic Names
  Service (CGNS) (authoritative national view of
  GeoNames)
• NTS Lookup Service
• provides complex geometry for National
  Topographic System mapsheet coding in GML 3.0.0

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CGDI Common Services

• Postal Code Lookup Service
• provides point geometry for Postal Codes by
  3-digit Forward Sortation Areas (FSA) in GML
  3.0.0
• OGC Catalog Service
• provides metadata from OGC WMS instances
• Used as WMS catalog for GeoConnections Discovery
  Portal

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CGDI WMS Client Component(cwc2)

• Rapid application development software for
  consuming CGDI endorsed specifications (WMS,
  Gazetteer, Catalog, Context)
• Based on CGDI stakeholder requirements
• Current use
• Toporama, GeoBase
• Agriculture Canada
• Environment Canada
• GeoConnections Discovery Portal

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CGDI WMS Client Component(cwc2)

• New development
• 2-day training module for Fall 2003
• V1.0 should be out August 2003
• Available as open source software
• Renamed to Chameleon
• http//www.maptools.org/chameleon/