Hi Mary:
350 people from 24 countries attended GeoWeb 2008 - How can you miss
GeoWeb 2009!
GML, XML, GeoSciML. cityGML, AIXM, KML, XACML, ebRIM, geoRSS, SensorML,
TML, WFS, SOS, GeoJSON .... All and MUCH more
If you are interested in information sharing and collaboration then
GeoWeb 2009 must be on your calendar. GeoWeb 2009 is the fourth world
GeoWeb conference and the only conference worldwide that is focused
exclusively on the intersection/convergence of the World Wide Web and
geographic information technologies. This year, we focus in particular
on the applications of these technologies to the urban environment - to
the planning, design, construction, management and operation of our
cities. If you are interested in open standards - open interfaces -
open source - interoperability - SDI - you cannot miss this event.
Some of the features of this year's conference include:
* Keynotes by ESRI President Alex Miller, and Google's Michael
Jones
* Invited speakers David Boloker (CTO) IBM, John Stutz (Tellus
Institute)
* 50+ Technical Presentations
* 15 technical workshops on standards and GeoWeb technologies
(ESRI, Google, Autodesk, Galdos, Microsoft, OGC, LizardTech etc).
* Student Contest
* 22 academic papers on 3D modeling. (digital cities)
* Fireworks dinner cruise
* Three panels - Architecture (SOA vs ROA vs P2P/ED) - Business
Issues - Digital Cities
This is a great event for networking and new business deals. Wonder
where things are headed? Want to shape the future?
Come to GeoWeb 2009 - July 27-31, 2009 - Vancouver, B.C., Canada - for
details and registration see http://www.geowebconference.org
Sincerely,
Ron
Ron Lake
CEO and Chairman
Galdos Systems Inc
604-484-2751
Original Message-----
From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mary McRae
Sent: March 3, 2009 6:53 AM
To: members@lists.oasis-open.org; tc-announce@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org; 'OASIS TAB'
Subject: [emergency] Public Review of CAP v1.1 IPAWS Profile v1.0
To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:
The OASIS Emergency Management TC has recently approved the following
specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public
review:
Common Alerting Protocol Version 1.1 USA Integrated Public Alert and
Warning
System Profile Version 1.0
The public review starts today, 3 March 2009, and ends 2 May 2009. This
is
an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from
potential
users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake
of
improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please feel
free
to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other
appropriate mail lists.
More non-normative information about the specification and the technical
committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=emergency.
Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked
"Send A
Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=emerge
ncy.
Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are
publicly archived and can be viewed at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/emergency-comment/. All comments
submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which
ensures
that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as
the
obligations of the TC members.
The specification document and related files are available here:
Editable Source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.1/ipaws-profile/v1.0/pr01/ca
p-v1
.1-ipaws-profile-v1.0-pr01.doc
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.1/ipaws-profile/v1.0/pr01/ca
p-v1
.1-ipaws-profile-v1.0-pr01.pdf
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/emergency/cap/v1.1/ipaws-profile/v1.0/pr01/ca
p-v1
.1-ipaws-profile-v1.0-pr01.html
The OASIS EM TC requests comments on the advisability of including a
normative XML Schema for the CAP-IPAWS Profile within the CAP IPAWS
Profile
Specification. Currently no schema is included and we note that other
OASIS
profiles have been completed without schemas. It should be considered
whether the purpose of the profile is better suited by:
- including no schema;
- enforcing restrictions such as those for the