6. Glossary
Distributed computing; Calcul distribué
Distributed, or shared, computing is the act of distributing a calculation or processing task to several microprocessors, or more generally to any central computing unit. Distributed computing is often performed on specialized computing clusters, but can also be performed on individual computer stations with multiple cores. Distributed computing is an area of research in the mathematical and computer sciences. In particular, it involves the notion of parallel computing.
Géoportail ; Geoportal
The Géoportail is a public Web portal providing access to search, view and download geographic or geolocalized data. In particular, it aims to publish geographic reference data for a given territory or theme.
Infrastructure de données géospatiales IDG; Spatial...
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Bibliography
Software tools
Deegree http://www.deegree.org/
GeoNetwork http://geonetwork-opensource.org/
GeoServer http://www.geoserver.org
MapFish
Websites
Group on Earth Observations http://www.earthobservations.org
INSPIRE http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
SDI Cookbook http://www.gsdidocs.org/GSDIWiki/index.php/Main_Page
...Events
INSPIRE Conference, held every year in a different European city http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/501
GEO/GEOSS Plenary, held annually http://www.earthobservations.org/meetings.php
Standards and norms
- Geographic information – Metadata – Part 1: Fundamentals - ISO 19115-1 - 2004
- Geographic information – Metadata – XML schema implementation - ISO/TS 19139 - 2007
- ISO Geographic information – Services - ISO 19119 - 2005
- OGC Catalogue Service http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat - -
- OGC Geography Markup Language http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/gml - -
- OGC KML...
Regulations
Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of March 14, 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32007L0002
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