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GeoConnections’ Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)
Technical Workshop

Friday June 23, 2006
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Natural Resources Canada
615 Booth Street, Room 100 (Sam Gamble)
Ottawa, On K1A 0E9

Agenda

Objectives: To inform, engage and connect GeoConnections’ stakeholders in the use and further development of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure by:

Highlighting current technical development to date;
Describing the technical architecture of the CGDI;
Presenting CGDI-enabled tools/applications and services;
Meeting and networking with stakeholders and partners (thematic users/industry);
Communicating opportunities for collaboration and participation in the CGDI.

Audience: technical implementers and program/project managers representing the geomatics community (federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, industry, not-for-profit organizations, geomatics associations), GeoConnections’ program representatives and GeoConnections’ partners.

Format: Presentations, facilitated discussions, networking.

8:30 – 9:00 am Registration and Networking

9:00 – 9:15 am Welcome/Introduction - CGDI development Network

Facilitator: Adrian Camfield, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada
“An Overview of the workshop agenda and others announcements”
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- Brian McLeod, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada
“An overview of the CGDI Development Network will be presented”.

9:15 – 9:35 am Overview of GeoConnections’ program and governance structure

- Rebecca Last, GeoConnections/Natural Resources
“A quick overview of GeoConnections program highlighting the major tracks of the program, and governance structure will be presented”
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9:35 – 10:00 am Community of practice presentation

- Nina Wesch, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada
“The renewed GeoConnections program is being driven by users’ needs and requirements with an emphasis on four thematic areas i.e. Public health, Public safety, Aboriginal matters, and Environment and sustainable development. The presentation will highlight the scope and objectives of the four thematic areas and communicate progress to date and future opportunities”
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10:00 am to 10:15 am --- Health Break ---

10:15 – 10:45 am GeoConnections Users’ Capacity and Industry – Facilitated discussion

GeoConnections program is being driven by users’ needs and requirements, the workshop is providing opportunities to industry to meet and share information/solutions with GeoConnections’ thematic advisors and other stakeholders.”

10:45 – 12:00 pm CGDI Cores Services – Facilitated discussion

Facilitator: Adrian Camfield, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada
“The facilitated session will include discussions with respect to the definition and evolution of CGDI “core services” such as the GeoConnections Discovery Portal and related web services (Visualization with Web Mapping services, etc.) will be discussed.

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm --- Lunch ---
"A multi-media presentation describing the development and use of CGDI endorsed standards in real world situation, from the Open GIS Consortium, will be presented"

1:15 – 2:35 pm CGDI standards/architecture update and way forward

A series of presentations by contributors to the CGDI will talk about standards and architecture updates as well as explores the implementation of geospatial standards-based components and capabilities in portal technologies.

- Douglas C. O’Brien, IDON technologies – Chair of the Canadian General Standards Board, Committee on Geomatics
North American Profile of Metadata (20 minutes)
“This presentation will report on progress to date with respect to development of North American Profile for Metadata which is based on ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information – Metadata standard”.
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- Chris DeJager, AMEC
Web Feature Services, Considerations for CGDI Government Partners (20 minutes)
“This presentation will report on a Web Feature Service assessment study and will highlight recommendations and way forward for implementation of distributed WFS across government departments”.
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- Mike Adair, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada
Open Geospatial Consortium updates (20 minutes)
"This presentation will focus on current and future work within the Open Geospatial Consortium Inc. in implementing standards based technologies and progressing/endorsing specifications such as web processing service, Web Services Common and Catalogue”.
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- Dave McIlhagga, DM Solutions Group
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (20 minutes)
"This presentation will focus on current and future work within the Open Source Geospatial Foundation - OSGeo in implementing standards based technologies such as access and visualization of geospatial web services. The presentation will also highlight the position of OSGeo technologies within Spatial Data Infrastructures such as the CGDI”.
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2:35 to 3:00 pm --- Health Break ---

3:00 – 4:00 pm Round table discussion on key CGDI technical issues

- Brian McLeod, GeoConnections/Natural Resources Canada
Google and Where 2.0 (15 minutes)
“This presentation will report on Web 2.0 development and Google geospatial aspects, progress to data and future work to align with standards and specifications such as OGC, etc.”
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The round table discussion will provide an opportunity for participants to share their views on the influence of standards in creating interoperability, the benefits of the CGDI for their field of work, the technical challenges that still need to be overcome, and the opportunities to get involved.

Topics for discussion might include, but not limited to:

Identification of key issues?
Recommendations for GeoConnections response to key issues?
How the technology solutions that were presented might affect the participants?
Communications, vision sharing with participants, communities?

4:00 pm – ? pm Closing and Networking