PTB - Persistent Testbed - Workshop at AGILE Conference

[Johannes Brauner-2]

*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@...).


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)


EGIP Archive:  http://www.ec-gis.org/egip/