| Web Feature Service (WFS) |
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A
specification that defines data manipulation operations on geographic
features, allowing for querying, retrieval and transactional (i.e. add,
update or delete) operations.
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| Web Map Service (WMS) |
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An
Internet-based service that allows clients to display maps and/or
images with a geographic component and whose raw spatial data files
reside on one or more remote WMS servers. The WMS conforms to the
OpenGIS Web Map Server Interface specification.
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Z39.50 Search Protocol |
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The
ANSI/NISO Z39.50 search protocol is a computer-to-computer
communications protocol designed to support searching and retrieving of
information, full-text documents, bibliographic data, images and
multimedia in a distributed network environment. The Z39.50 is
currently supported by the GeoConnections Discovery Portal.
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