<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Interesting for some labs in US...</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Greetings.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Maria<br><br><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>Da:</b> George Percivall via TC-Announce <<a href="mailto:tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org">tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org</a>><br><b>Data:</b> 2 settembre 2016 15:46:34 CEST<br><b>A:</b> "<a href="mailto:tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org">tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org">tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org</a>><br><b>Oggetto:</b> <b>[TC-Announce] Disparate Data Challenge - <a href="http://challenge.gov">Challenge.gov</a></b><br><b>Rispondi a:</b> George Percivall <<a href="mailto:gpercivall@opengeospatial.org">gpercivall@opengeospatial.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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The US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched a $200,000 competition on the <a href="http://challenge.gov" class="">Challenge.gov</a> website for programs that would help address NGA’s disparate data challenges. <br class="">
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<div class="">NGA Disparate Data Challenge. </div>
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<div class="">"NGA seeks to unearth innovative ways of retrieving and analyzing data in different locations, formats, schemas and interfaces.”</div>
<b class="">Stage 1 - Submission Date: by 1 p.m. ET, Sep 19, 2016</b><br class="">
<div class="">Stage 1 winners get $10K - up to 15 teams.</div>
<div class="">Stage 2 "Demo-thon"</div>
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The challenge aims to provide unified access to data with different formats, schemas, interfaces and locations to support applications such as business metrics and information analytics. The mission and technology of OGC and its members is highly suited to
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NGA Director Robert Cardillo said the agency is in need of technology and tools that will work to analyze big data and relay the information to its clients. “We want ideas on how to seamlessly pull together these wildly disparate data sources — everything from
imagery, social media, documents, video, et cetera — to create robust products for our customers,” said Col. Marc DiPaolo, chief of mainstreaming capabilities at NGA’s enterprise innovation office.
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<div class="">The first stage of the challenge requires participants to develop a functional code designed to access and retrieve the supplied representative data sets from a variety of sources. NGA will select 15 participants who will receive $10,000 and move
on to the second part of the competition. The selected competitors will then take part in a Dem-o-thon in Washington, D.C., where a panel of NGA judges will test the submitted code. The agency will award $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000 in cash prizes to the first-,
second- and third-place winners, respectively.
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<div class="">“The NGA Disparate Data Challenge encourages participants to offer solutions that can demonstrate effective capabilities that enable access to<b class=""> data that is wildly disparate in its formats, schemas, interfaces </b>and locations, so
that it may be available for search, business metrics and data and information analytics."</div>
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<div class="">The “wildly disparate” nature of the data is well displayed in the data available for this Challenge:</div>
<div class=""><a href="http://disparatedata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/" class="">http://disparatedata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/</a></div>
<div class="">There are five categories of data:</div>
<div class="">1. WMS and WFS data - </div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>WMS layers in <a href="http://geoint.nrlssc.navy.mil/nrltileserver/wms" class="">http://geoint.nrlssc.navy.mil/nrltileserver/wms</a></div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Links to <a href="http://nag.mpas.arcgis.com" class="">nag.mpas.arcgis.com</a> with .mpk Esri format</div>
<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>WMS and WFS in <a href="http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/gns_services.html" class="">http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/gns_services.html</a></div>
<div class="">2. NITF Data</div>
<div class="">3. Imagery - KML, GeoTIFF, XML.JSON</div>
<div class="">4. Humanitarian Data - XML, Shapefile, Txt, CSV, JSON</div>
<div class="">5. Other - XML, Shapefile</div>
<div class="">6. Raw - XLS, CSV, LIDAR(DBF, PRG, SHP, SHX, DG</div>
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CTO, Chief Engineer</div>
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