The focal point of the conference was the tutorials, which covered the five SEDRIS technology components, as well as associated application areas. The conference also included panels and presentations by leaders in their field who shared their experience on how the application of SEDRIS and other associated environmental technologies is shaping the future. A plenary session, exhibits, and demonstrations on SEDRIS and other related technologies complemented the conference.
Conference Committee
As its name implies, SEDRIS is fundamentally about two key aspects: (1) representation of environmental data, and (2) the interchange of environmental data sets. SEDRIS does not try to judge, side with, separate, or distinguish how various domains use environmental data. Instead it provides a unifying mechanism for all of them to describe (and subsequently share) such data, without detracting from one or the other. The representational aspect of SEDRIS is much like a language or a method for unambiguously describing the environment, independent of whether the environment is geo-specific, geo-typical, or completely fictitious. The interchange aspect of SEDRIS is a mechanism for sharing the described environmental data. Put together, SEDRIS is simply an infrastructure technology. It provides the enabling foundation for Information Technology applications to express, understand, share, and reuse environmental data. The SEDRIS web site, www.sedris.org, provides information and documentation that describe SEDRIS, its data representation model, and its application programmer's interface, among others. SEDRIS software and documentation may be retrieved for on-line viewing or downloaded for local use from the web site. |
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