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Tuesday 18 October 2005: Session 3, 10:30:00 AM
Interoperability and Web Services: It's Not Just For Geeks Anymore
Presentation Abstract
The last decade has seen major efforts applied to geospatial interoperability and web services. For the real-world local-government GIS practitioner, however, it all can look like an alphabet soup of acronyms and geekly self-involvement with terms like OGC, ISO, GML, SDL, WMS, WFS, WSDL, SOAP and others. However, commercial products and real-world usable solutions are now emerging from this process that have real value for local governments and the organizations and companies that assist them. This presentation will review these recent developments and how they are (and will) effect local governments.
Speaker Biographical Information
Fred Limp : RGIS Mid-South Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) - University of Arkansas
Fred Limp is a contributing editor of GeoWorld and a regular contributor to Earth Imaging Journal. He was one of the founders of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) and served on its Board of Directors until 2003. He now serves on its Interoperability Institute Board. He has served on the Intergraph Corporation's Geospatial Executive Board, the Board of AmericaView, and the Sam M Walton College of Business Information Technology Research Center Board. He is also actively involved in the political and operational issues related to geospatial technologies. He was appointed in 1996 by then Governor Tucker to the Arkansas Mapping and Land Records Modernization Board, and served as its Chair. In 1999 he was appointed by Governor Huckabee to the Arkansas State Land Information Board. He is co-author of two different pieces of legislation on GIS. Fred is University Professor in the Departments of Anthropology, Geosciences and the Environmental Dynamics Program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and is the Director of the University of Arkansas' Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) and the RGIS Mid-South Program.
