<div>Frank, all,</div>
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<div>i) What about an online conversion service which uses fwtools, especially the raster/vector formats? I'm thinking on something like <a href="http://media-convert.com/">http://media-convert.com</a> perhaps hosted by OSGEO?
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<div>ii) What about a validation service for file formats and protocols? Say, like <a href="http://www.purl.org/NET/oai_explorer"><u><font color="#0000ff" size="2">http://www.purl.org/NET/oai_explorer</font></u></a> but also for WMS
1.3, WMS tile, WFS simple, and a sponsorship by OGC (:->)? </div>
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<div>iii) And what about a metadata extraction service which pulls out "metadata" out of data sets provided? See ogrinfo and <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/DCLite4G">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/DCLite4G
</a> .</div>
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<div>-- Stefan</div>
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<div>P.S. Sorry if i missed something. I'm unsure especially about the completeness and accessability of OGC online compliance testing (<a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/testing">http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/testing
</a>) which covers only deprecated WCS, WFS and WMS? But this would be anyway only part of a solution.</div>