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Renewed GeoConnections
The 2010 Federal Budget announced renewed funding for the GeoConnections program. The Budget provides $11 million in funding over the next two years to continue development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) and to provide consolidated geographic-related information to Canadians via the Internet.
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Resources & Tools
Next Generation Stateless Catalogue
Making it faster and easier to discover data and services that are part of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)-that's the aim of the software developed under this project. The Next Generation Stateless Catalogue is software that, when in place, will enable users of the CGDI to manage a wide range of detailed data (metadata) related to such things as web services, map styles, image collections, geographic datasets and coordinate reference systems.
For data providers in the CGDI, this new software will offer a number of advantages. For one thing, the "feature registry" model will enable them to create flexible gazetteers, which supply data users with the coordinates of place names they request. Furthermore, the software will free data providers from having to change their data models to match national or regional standards. As well, the new software will make it possible for providers to classify their data holdings according to well-known or application-specific hierarchies, which will improve search efficiency.
For data users, the software will make it possible to discover and gain access to information and services, such as datasets, map styles and coordinate reference systems, without knowing in advance where they are located. The software will enable users to discover resources by association. This means that users looking for certain geospatial datasets, for example, can quickly find corresponding web services that provide access to data. Ultimately, the New Generation Stateless Catalogue will serve as a kind of "matchmaker" between service providers and service users. It will enable service providers to publish descriptions of their offerings. And service users can consult these descriptions to discover resources that interest them, then connect with the providers to access the resources.
A larger benefit of this new software is that geospatial data collected locally and regionally can be discovered and accessed provincially, territorially and nationally. The software will also permit better linkages between Canadian data and services and other geospatial infrastructures around the world. Moreover, the new software will enable the CGDI to become a dynamic infrastructure that can track, respond to and help manage changing conditions, such as water and air pollution, forest management, accidents, diseases and natural disasters.
Primary Partner:
Galdos Systems Inc.
Vancouver,
British Columbia;
Funding From GeoConnections: $233,415.00 ( 40.0 %)
Estimated Inception Date: April, 2003
Estimated Completion Date: May, 2004
Deliverables from this project benefitted the following provinces: All provinces