GML And Geo-Spatial Web Services
Conference 2005

Workshops

Workshop 1: 2 Day Intensive XML and Hands-On GML Course

This two-day course is designed for geo-spatial technical professionals who wish to gain an in depth knowledge of XML and GML. The first full day session will provide participants with an extensive overview of XML, as well as other related technologies. This course will also include a brief overview of GML, with worked GML examples. The second full day session course will concentrate solely on the application of GML. This course will provide participants with hands on experience on modeling, storing, integrating, and using both XML and GML data.

The participants will be responsible for downloading a demonstration version of the course software (XML editor, validator, parser, transformation engine) onto their own machine. Laptops/workstations will not be provided. Details of the download site will be provided prior to the course start. The application problems are derived directly from real world examples.

Workshop 2: One Day Introduction to Geospatial Interoperability

The key role of geographic information has been increasingly emphasized in supporting local, state, federal and international agencies along with business and educational establishments in their critical infrastructure protection tasks. Geospatial interoperability enables these organizations to share information and seamlessly integrate it from a variety of heterogeneous sources. This workshop provides an overview of geospatial interoperability and what it takes to make it happen using the latest OGC and ISO TC211 geospatial standards.

Workshop 3: Half Day XQuery with Examples

XQuery is a language for querying XML databases as well as other collections of 1 or more XML documents.  Soon XQuery will formally include update capabilities, although numerous extensions exist in industry.  XPath 2.0 is very similar to XQuery and shares many of the same specifications.

Workshop 4: An Introduction to JPEG 2000 and GML for Geospatial imaging

Part one of this workshop will introduce the JPEG 2000 image compression system. We will cover the basics of image compression, the features that JPEG 2000 offers, and the new imaging workflows it enables. Emphasis will be on describing the breadth of the system, at the expense of details about how the system is implemented. Part two of this talk is will describe how GML can extend a raw image to provide an rich geospatial description the image and of the geographic features captured by the image. In particular, we will detail the structure and the components of a GML package that can be bundled in a JP2 file to provide image metadata for JPEG 2000.

Workshop 5: Half Day Introduction to GML for XML-Aware Business Managers

This half-day course is designed to provide XML-aware business managers with a detailed overview of the Geography Markup Language (GML). GML is quickly becoming the key technology for all geo-spatial data formatting. This XML application enables users to deliver geographic information as distinct features, and then control how they are displayed in a Web browser. Furthermore, since GML is an open standard (free, easily accessible) it enables this data to be readily shared and exchanged over the Internet. Participants will come away from this course with a good understanding of GML technology, along with knowledge of its applications.

Workshop 6: Half day eb RIM Registry-Repository Workshop

This half-day course is an introduction to the eb RIM Registry-Repository. The workshop starts off with an introduction to the registry centric Service Oriented Architecture, followed by an examination of a ebXML registry-repository. Finally, there will be a demonstration of registry usage.