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CGDI online training

This online course is designed to introduce you to the various components of the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, their functionality, and the standards and specifications necessary to implement them.

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The following list includes the standards and specifications that are endorsed and(or) under investigation by GeoConnections. More standards and specifications are added as they become available, so stay tuned!

IMPLEMENTATION SPECIFICATIONS
Specification Status   Specification
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Filter Encoding
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Geodata Discovery Service
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Geographic Markup Language (GML)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Geolinked Data Access Service (GDAS)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used)		 GeoRSS
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used)		 KML
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Metadata for Geodata
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used)		 Tile Mapping Service (TMS)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Web Coverage Service (WCS)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Web Feature Service (WFS)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Web Map Context Document
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Web Map Service (WMS)
TAP Endorsed Specification
(must be used) 		Web Processing Service (WPS)
Recommendation Paper
(should be used) 		Catalog Services Interface
Discussion Paper
(should be considered) 		Gazetteer Service
Discussion Paper
(should be considered) 		Geolinking Service (GLS)
Discussion Paper
(should be considered) 		Service Registry
Discussion Paper
(should be considered) 		Service Registry Service
Under investigation Attribute Reapportioning Service
Under investigation Component Discovery Service
Under investigation Component Instance Registry
Under investigation Component Type Registry
Under investigation Component Registration Service
Under investigation Event Instance Registry
Under investigation Event Subscription Registry
Under investigation Event Registry Service
Under investigation Event Type Registry
Under investigation Feature Association Service
Under investigation Feature Generalization Service
Under investigation Framework Tiling Service
Under investigation GeoData Alignment Service
Under investigation GeoDifference Service
Under investigation GeoGeneralization Service
Under investigation Geoparser Service
Under investigation Google Keyhole Mark-up Language
Under investigation Ontology Service
Under investigation Overlay Service
Under investigation Rights Management
Under investigation Routing Service
Under investigation Sensor Web Enablement
Under investigation Service Type Registry
Under investigation Symbol Library Service
Under investigation Type/Schema Registry Service
Under investigation Web Security
Under investigation Workflow Definition Service
Under investigation Workflow Enactment Service