[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [ica-opensource] PTB - Persistent Testbed - Workshop at AGILE Conference

[Suchith Anand]

This might be of interest and apologies for cross posting.

Suchith

Dr Suchith Anand
Centre for Geospatial Science
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Sent: 08 May 2009 14:26
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Subject: [ica-opensource] PTB - Persistent Testbed - Workshop at AGILEConference

Dear all,

if you're interested in Open Standards (I think so ;-)) and testing and 
advancing Web Service interoperability on a European level, please 
consider a participation in the PTB workshop at AGILE conference 
(invitation below).

Best regards

Johannes


"AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC Persistent Testbed for Research and Teaching in Europe"
Hannover, 2nd June 2009

We invite you to participate in the workshop "AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC 
Persistent Testbed for Research and Teaching in Europe", a 
pre-conference workshop at the "12th AGILE International Conference on 
Geographic Information Science" located in Hannover, Germany, on 2nd 
June 2009. Details about the workshop and its agenda can be found here:

http://www.ikg.uni-hannover.de/agile/index.php?id=460 

The PTB is a joint effort from AGILE, EuroSDR and OGC initiated in 2007 
to provide a persistent testbed for the various European GI initiatives 
and communities with the following objectives:

- To provide a research platform for collaborative European research in 
geospatial interoperability,
- To aid the assessment of the current standards for geospatial 
interoperability in terms of research compatibility, completeness, 
consistency, ease of use and extensibility
- To provide an environment for teaching standards and techniques for 
geospatial interoperability
- To provide a resource to AGILE/EuroSDR/OGC for the coordination of 
research requirements as well as definition, testing, validation and 
development of open standards.

More Details about the PTB can be found here:

http://plone.itc.nl/gitestbed/phase-1-documents/PTB-background-and-future-directions-proposal.pdf/at_download/file 

The workshop will report progress from the PTB activities over the last 
year. It will include additional test-bed focussed presentations and 
provide a forum for discussion of how the PTB Project and related 
test-bed activities in Europe should evolve to meet the current and 
future needs of the European GI-community.

If you are interested in the PTB Project and other test-beds for 
geospatial interoperability and their relationship to the needs of 
INSPIRE, SEIS, GMES and related National activity (or Europe’s input to 
broader programmes such as GEOSS) then we look forward to meeting you in 
Hannover on June 2nd and to your participation in the Workshop.

If you have further questions please contact Johannes Brauner 
(johannes.brauner at tu-dresden.de).


Lars Bernard (AGILE Council, Technische Universität Dresden)
Chris Higgins (Chair of OGC University Working Group, EDINA at 
University of Edinburgh)
Mike Jackson (Chair of EuroSDR Commission 5 - Network Services, 
University of Nottingham)
Ulf Sandgren (Chair of EuroSDR Commission 4 - Data Specifications, 
Lantmäteriet (the Swedish Mapping, Cadastral and Land Registration 
Authority)
Johannes Brauner (PTB facilitator, Technische Universität Dresden)


-- 
Dipl.-Geoinf. Johannes Brauner
Technische Universität Dresden
Professorship of Geoinformation Systems
Helmholtzstr. 10
D 01062 Dresden

Phone: +49 (0)351 463 39696
Mail: johannes.brauner at tu-dresden.de 
www: http://tu-dresden.de/fgh/geo/gis 
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