Re: [egov] Tactics on data alignment / standardization

["Carl Reed" <creed@opengis.org>]

Yes, and the new version of the OpenGIS Catalog specification - which
already supports Z39.50 as a profile  - is incorporating the OGC service
registry (ebRIM) work as a profile.

Carl

----- Original Message -----
From: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>
To: Farrukh Najmi <farrukh.najmi@sun.com>; <egov@lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc: Thomas Lee <ytlee@cecid.hku.hk>; Carl Reed <creed@opengis.org>; Joe
Chiusano <chiusano_joseph@bah.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [egov] Tactics on data alignment / standardization


> At 07:43 AM 7/24/2003 -0400, Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> >[...] the OpenGIS consortium <http://www.opengis.org> has been using the
> >ebXML Registry Information Model specification for more than a year now
to
> >implement catalogue services for the geospatial domain
>
> The ISO 23950 international standard for search (also known
> as "Z39.50") is used for searching within a catalog service.
> I believe this search standard could be used with ebXML RIM,
> and this would dovetail nicely with demonstrated interoperability
> against UDDI registries of geospatial catalog services.
>
> Eliot
>