Clearinghouse Status

[Tony Boston <tony@erin.gov.au>]

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Tony Boston
ERIN
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>From ddnebert@fgdclearhs.er.usgs.GOV Thu Feb 20 09:10 EST 1997
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:07:41 +0000
From: Doug Nebert <ddnebert@fgdclearhs.er.usgs.GOV>
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A user inquires:

> Doug,
> 
> Can you please help me with a list of all fgdc clhouse nodes;
> neither the fgdc nor the clhouse home page provide that info.
> 
> Thank you for your time and support.
> 
> Regards, 

I am pleased to announce that we have at least 25 distributed geospatial
metadata/data servers around the world that are using either the
prototype (Z39.50-1988) or final standards-based (Z39.50-1995 GEO
Profile) Clearinghouse server technology. By examining the two primary
interfaces, listed below, you can glean the existing sites that have
participated in this effort, but I have also listed these sites for you
as a synopsis. Not all sites have migrated to the current service
standard -- but all are based on the same, stable 1994 FGDC metadata
standard or provide mapping to those query fields.

  http://nsdi.usgs.gov/public/fgdcquery.html (prototype interface)

  http://hedra.cnidr.org/GEOgateway.html (HTML interface)

There are around ten additional sites that exist within the DOD that are
also transitioning to use Clearinghouse technology, which are not listed
below. By mapping metadata to a common search protocol each site can
preserve custom access through their Web server, but more importantly,
they can respond to a single distributed search across the Net.

The Pre-Release version of the Isite 2.00 index and server software will
be announced within the week for all sites interested in activating a
server accessible through the Java and HTML gateways. This will include
UNIX/Linux and hopefully a Beta version of 2.00 for the Windows NT
platform.

A list of sites that have established Clearinghouse servers are as
follows:  

A (P) indicates participation in the prototype, a (F) indicates current
support of the Final service, and a (T) is given if they have indicated
they are in Transition to supporting the Final version before October
1997 or have received 1996 CCAP grants funding to do so. An (I) is given
if a recent Interest has been expressed, or they were an 1995 CCAP
recipient, but no schedule has been supplied to the FGDC on when they
will go Final. 

I am passing this note to the Clearinghouse Working Group email members
also to update this list, if I have been incorrect in my status
reporting (Let me know if I need to change some "I"s or "T"s).

Federal Sites:
(P)(T)       Army Corps of Engineers  
(P)(T)       US Environmental Protection Agency
   (T)       USEPA/USGS National Hydrography Dataset
      (F)    FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (sampler)
(P)(I)       US Fish and Wildlife, Wetlands Inventory
(P)   (F)    USGS-Water Resources Data
(P)(I)       USGS-EROS Data Center ftp index
   (T)       USGS-Mapping Sales Data Base Interface
(P)(I)       USGS-Geologic Information
      (F)    USGS-South Florida Ecosystem Initiative
(P)(T)       NOAA Server and Environmental Data (pending)
      (F)    Naval Research Lab MEL Project
(P)          NASA Earth Observing Photo Library (offline)
      (F)    NRCS State and County Soils Survey Data

State sites:
   (T)       Alabama NSDI Clearinghouse Node
      (F)    Alaska Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
   (I)       Alaska AVHRR Image Archive
   (I)       (Alaska) Fairbanks North Star Borough 
   (I)       California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
   (T)       Delaware Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node
   (T)       Georgia Spatial Data Clearinghouse
   (I)       Idaho Geospatial Data Network
   (T)       Kansas NSDI Clearinghouse Node
   (I)       MASS GIS Clearinghouse
   (I)       Florida Digital Spatial Library System
   (I)       Louisiana NGDC Node
(P)   (F)    Montana State Library
(P)(T)       State of New York
   (I)       Oregon Digital Map Library Clearinghouse
(P)(I)       Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
(P)(I)       Pennsylvania Digital Elevation Data
(P)   (F)    State of Wisconsin
      (F)    Nebraska Natural Resources Commission
   (T)       New Mexico Clearinghouse Nodes (3)
      (F)    North Carolina CGIA
      (F)    North Texas GIS Consortium
   (I)       Oklahoma Interactive GIS Network
   (T)       South Carolina Coastal Resource Node
   (T)       South Dakota Clearinghouse Node
      (F)    Texas Natural Resources Information System
   (I)       Utah Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node
   (T)       Vermont Metadata Clearinghouse Project
   (I)       Washington Geospatial Clearinghouse
   (T)       Wyoming Geographic Advisory Council
   (T)       Virgin Islands Biological Resource Node

Local/Regional Sites:
(P)(I)       Alexandria Digital Library 
   (I)       Champaign County Illinois CCNet Node
   (T)       MIT/Mass. Orthophoto Clearinghouse
   (T)       San Francisco Bay Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
   (T)       SW Washington Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
   (T)       Mount Desert Island, Maine Regional Node

International Sites:
   (I)       Antarctic Research Library (NSF/SCAR)
      (F)    Biological Resource Maps of Costa Rica
   (I)       Canada Earth Observing Network (CEONet)
      (F)    Inter-American Geospatial Data Network
(P)(I)       Australian Environmental Resources Information Network
   (I)       Netherlands National Clearinghouse for Geospatial
Information


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