Venue: Avignon, France
Dates: 24th of April 2012
Workshop contact: Stephan Schmid ( stephan.schmid@unibw.de)
The workshop is continuing a series of workshops that has been succesfully held in conjunction with the last three AGILE conferences. This year the main topics of interoperability and testing of open-source and proprietary Geo Web Service and the Persistent SDI Testbed (PTB) are extented towards Scientific SDIs. Therewith, the question of what distinguishes Scientific SDI's from others and how such Scientific SDI's can be established in the European Community shall be addressed as an additional topic. The workshop aims to outline the state of the art and the technical and scientific issues related to Geo Web Services, its testing and Scientific SDI's and to discuss best practice examples. Furhter goals are the development of consistent testing strategies and the support of geospatial research in major EU programs, science and education.

Please find more information about the workshop on PTB, http://sdi-testbed.eu