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CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICES

Intergraph: GeoMedia

Intergraph is a leading GIS and engineering software. GeoMedia WebMap Professional 5.01 provides an OGC server compliant WFS v. 1.0.0. and implements WFS-T 1.0.0. GeoMedia's 6.1.5 "SDI Pro" version supports a Gazetteer Service, a transactional WFS, and a secured WFS (Sonea 2008). GeoMedia reads many data formats without translation, and its WFS are able to capture changed features via a thin client.

Codehaus: GeoTools: Home

GeoTools is an open source Java GIS toolkit used for OGC based projects via GeoAPI interfaces. GeoTools implements the OGC Grid Coverage implementation, the Filter Encoding specification, the Simple Features Specification, GML, WFS, and WMS. A hyperlink to the GeoTools 2.6.x stable version, will lead the user to other hyperlinks, including a "Geospatial for Java Tutorial". Plug-ins have been built for shape files, ArcGrid, ArcSDE, PostGIS, Oracle Spatial, MySQL and many more tools.

OpenLayers: Free Maps for the Web

OpenLayers is an open source JavaScript library that uses a JavaScript API to build free geospatial web client applications. It implements WMS and WFS, and handles GeoRSS feeds for map display (Turton & Murdoch 2008). Its WFS-T works well in tandem with GeoServer. Its framework was designed so that map tools may operate on all map data sources, avoiding the pitfall of proprietary silos. The site provides access to its wiki, blog and downloads through tabs. Impressive implementations may be viewed through the "Gallery" tab. See the Long Island Index Interactive Map hyperlink, and that site's video tutorials, available through the "How do I..." tab.

GeoNetwork Opensource

GeoNetwork Opensource was developed by FAO, World Food Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the UN Office for the coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Its free open source application implements the portal and catalog components of OGC's Reference Architecture. Its portal services provide access control and a tool for advanced metadata editing. Its catalog services (CAT 1.1.1 and CAT CS-W 2.0.1) implement a metadata clearinghouse providing access to data and metadata. Its data services component permit data processing involving features and coverages and SLD maintenance through OGC encodings and interfaces.

Google: Google Earth Developer's Guide

Google Earth, an extremely popular commercial 3D digital globe application, permits users to add WMS overlays. The Developer's Guide provides instructions to users wishing to embed Google Earth into web pages, and import and/or return KML representations of features. Tabs lead the user to the Google Geo Developers Blog. Users will find hyperlinks to documentation on KML and MapsAPI, and samples of code. Google's efforts to team with OGC have yielded an implementation standard abstract test suite of KML v. 2.2 (OGC, 2007c). CubeWerx has developed a Google Earth Extension for WMS (OGC 2008c). Still Google has few OGC compliant products, and many in the geospatial community are fearful that developers may stray from open geospatial standards making the future of open source development difficult.

MapServer

MapServer is a free application that supports several OGC standards (e.g., WMS, WCS, SLD, GML, SOS), thousands of projections, many raster and vector formats, advanced cartographic output, cross-platform support (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris) and several development tools, including PHP, Python, Perl, Java, .NET, and Ruby. See the entry for MapServer Tutorial in the Cookbooks/Tutorials section.

PCI Geomatics: Download Products and Features

PCI Geomatics is a Canadian firm that develops Geomatica and associated geo-imaging solutions is an OGC strategic member. The site's hyperlinks to webinars, case studies, white papers, newspaper archive, and articles detail Geomatica's powerful capabilities for geospatial analysis and modeling functions that implement OGC standards. In the GEOSS program, Geomatica implemented a still to be adopted specification, the Web Coordinate Transformation Service (WCTS), to access coordinate transformation services. Pluggable functions are available from its developer toolkit for those interested in developing applications on the fly. In the "Download Product Animations Now!" section, the user may view an impressive demonstration of a statistical overlay.

Science and Technology Sources on the Internet

Free bibliographic databases available on the web. Carl UnCover, ERIC, Agricola, and all of the flavors of Medline are the ones that first come to mind. Many of our libraries are open to community users and if you've ever been the one to break the bad news. UnCover has almost nine million article citations from 18,000 journals in all sorts of subjects.

End-User Patent Searching Using Open Access Sources

Researchers can learn effective searching at their desktop and download files for immediate use. Students can learn about a particular field for program and career choices. Those seeking a job can do background checking on industry trends, individual company research, and watch a technology as it moves among companies, inventors, and locations. Because gathering information from patents is more important than ever, this paper focuses on free access points, and demonstrates comprehensive U.S. patent searching, using approaches not available via keyword terms. Other countries are developing quickly and many find that it is expedient to file international patents, so this type of searching is covered as well.

Essential Readings in e-Science

The amount of data that scientists produce continues to increase every year. People are needed to handle, preserve, describe, and organize that data, and, because many of these tasks are similar to what librarians have done with publications for centuries, it makes sense that librarians would have a role in the emerging task of managing scientific data. It is the purpose of this paper to give librarians a core set of readings to turn to in order to begin learning about this new task in our field; to help us, as individuals and as a profession, understand what our roles will be in the area of "e-Science."

Mathematics Resources on the Internet

This webliography focuses on pure mathematics resources (e.g., algebra, logic, geometry, and analysis) and related subjects such as computer science. It includes electronic databases, WWW gateways, and online mathematical reference sources. This selective webliography focuses on free quality online materials where possible.

Internet Resources on Digital Research Data Curation

The curation of digital research data and the development of related infrastructure are of great significance to the research community, as evinced by the National Science Foundation's DataNet Program. The program will ultimately fund five large-scale projects which will include new types of research organizations (DataNet Partners) to focus their research efforts in these areas.

ARROW Discovery Service

Where you can search 260,299 Australian research outputs, including theses; preprints; postprints; journal articles; book chapters; music recordings and pictures.

AuthorMapper

AuthorMapper, an online tool for visualizing scientific research, enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps.

Digital Research Tools (DiRT)

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

Information Age

Information Age, the UK's monthly IT-in-business title, has been relaunched with a new website.

Institutional Repositories in India

Many of the institutions have their repositories which they have built on various open source software. The saddest part of this is that various institutes had created these digital repositories for testing or trial purpose only and could not maintain the pace to streamline those. Many of them are closed and are not being updated regularly. DSpace at INFLIBNET, an institutional repository of the Centre, which is responsible for creating the vibration in the use of open software software for digital library, and for many other important issues, is also not able to host its own institutional repository on regular basis. Following is the list of institutional repositories from India which are currently active on the Internet.

LUTube

LUTube is a new project to enable staff and students at the University of Leeds to show and share video securely online.

Web2Rights

Web2Rights is a JISC project, funded from 1st November 2007 - 31st March 2009, whose purpose was initially to develop practical, pragmatic and relevant Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and other legal issues toolkits to support the projects funded within the JISC Users and Innovation Programme (U&I) in their engagement with next generation technologies.