[ecoinfo] Newbie question

[Chris G. Nicholas]

I am responding to the Federal Geospatial "One-Stop" effort, as per:
http://ip.opengis.org/gos-pi/.

Theoretically, it will encompass FGDC clearinghouse, and it would make
sense to attempt to deal with other little efforts like the EPA NEIX,
NASA's ECHO (see: http://www.echo.eos.nasa.gov/), etc. in a
semi-consistent way.

Also, we are encountering various NSF folks in our dapplings with
GRID/Globus technologies, as per:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/grid/stories/globe.html.

Certainly an admirable goal would be to facilitate future versions of
Ferdinando Villa's and Tom Maxwell's stuff on the fly using data found
in NEIX, using a process designed in a tool like:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/WSOM, that could stand up in court.
(Is this really critical to endangered species X's habitat?) 

We had many spirited discussions on these and other issues at the last
openGIS meeting in Thousand Oaks, CA a few weeks back that centered
around the catalogue services; (I was looking for some Santa Barbara
folks!) 

Anyway, catalogue services are a big issue in OpenGIS, see:
http://www.opengis.org/pressrm/summaries/20010219.TS.CataSrvr.htm (but
don't believe the last paragraph...) 

Linda Hill over in geography/Alexandria is up to speed on the One-Stop
effort.

Chris Nicholas
GlobeXplorer

-----Original Message-----
From:	Matt Jones
Sent:	Wed 1/15/2003 12:59 PM
To:	Chris G. Nicholas
Cc:	ecoinfo at ecoinformatics.org
Subject:	Re: [ecoinfo] Newbie question
Chris,

I hadn't seen much on this EPA effort before, so thanks for pointing it 
out.  The EPA effort was not actively considered while developing EML. 
Nevertheless, from my very quick perusal of their framework I gathered 
that they will be using XML formatted data to be exchanged among nodes, 
and that the 'templates' for their data are in fact DTD and XML Schema 
documents.  Thus, it seems at least tenable that they might be 
interested in or willing to accomodate EML documented data as one of 
their formats if there were compelling reasons to do so.

Are you involved with that effort?  Why did you ask the question?  Is 
there a specific relationship you were trying to discover between the
two?

Matt

Chris G. Nicholas wrote:
> How does, or doesn't, EML relate to EPA's "National Environmental
> Information Exchange Network", as per:
> http://www.epa.gov/neengprg/library/netiplan0202.pdf
> 
> Chris Nicholas
> GlobeXplorer
> 
> 
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