Welcome to OOSTethys, where members of the ocean-science community are using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards to implement an earth-observing "system of systems." OOSTethys partners develop, test and implement easy-to-use, open-source, OGC-compliant software, and have created a working prototype of networked, semantically interoperable, real-time data systems. Our goal is to develop capabilities that will advance and support initiatives such as the IOOS, ORION, GEOSS and others.

• Data Providers: Use OOSTethys software downloads & cookbooks to implement OGC web services.
• Data Users: Explore HOWTOs for data clients & web-based visualizations from the OOSTethys reference implementation.
  
• Developers: Help create new software components and get involved in the OGC Interoperability Experiment.

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Workshop announcement: "Integrating Coastal and Ocean Observations in the Gulf of Maine" - the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership (GoMODP) is conducting workshop on web services. The workshop is hosted by GoMOOS, and will be held on May 21, 2008 in Portland, ME. This workshop will be of interest to any GoMODP Partner, and will provide content of interest to managerial, programmatic, and technical staff. Those who work most with the management of data sets will likely find the greatest benefit in this seminar. FOR MORE INFORMATION

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In December 2006, the OGC approved the Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment (OCEANS IE), which will build a close relationship between OOSTethys activities and the OGC vision for Sensor Web Enablement using OGC specifications such as SensorML, Sensor Observation Services (SOS), and related specifications such as the Web Feature Service (WFS). Learn how you can participate.

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