Introduction

Welcome to SOPAC WAGIS initiative.

WAGIS stands for Wide Area Geographic Information system.

It is all about MetaData?.

WAGIS follows the ANZLIC MetaData? Standard v1.0 of the Australian Spatial Data Directory, ASDD. The ANZLIC MetaData? Standard v1.0 is very similar to the FGDC MetaData? Standard v2.0.

There are reports that both Metadata standards will be merged in an ISO standard.

WAGIS has been developed mainly to be used in the Pacific where MapInfo? has been chosen as the standard GIS software for the member countries of the CROP by the CROP IT&C Working Group IT-Pacnet?. A MapInfo? Interface has been developed to record MetaData? when a table is saved. The Metadata is both recorded in the MetaData? of the MapInfo? table and on a MS-SQL server Database. A receiver and sender agent are the programmes fired by SQL server to exchange metadata between SQL servers via SMTP/POP e-mail. A script used by ISite provides owner metadata in Z39.50 format to other servers.

WAGIS Documents and Files
These documents and programs will be released as soon as they are stable.

Software

All the Software is SOPAC released under the GNU Public Licence (cf GNU website)

• Installation Instructions
• MS SQL Server WAGIS Database Installation file SOPAC, distributed under GPL
• Receiver and Sender Agents SOPAC, distributed under GPL
• MapInfo? WAGIS.MBX SOPAC, distributed under GPL

Specifications

• SOPAC MR0349: Development of a metadata solution for geographic data of the South Pacific
• WAGIS DTD v0.9? extension to anzmeta-1.2.dtd
• Table Structure?.

Useful Documents and Files

• SOPAC MR0346?: SOPAC GIS and Remote Sensing Capacity
• SOPAC MR0326?: SOPAC GIS and Remote Sensing Policy
• ANZLIC MetaData? standard v1.0? with Attachment 2 v2.0? Original at www.anzlic.org.au
• ANZLIC Metada Data DTD v1.2 Original, Copy?
• ANZMeta Geomap?
• ANZMeta BibMap?
• ISite for NT with Installation Wizard? Z39.50 Server
• FGDC MetaData? Standard? V 2.0 (Word Perfect Document)
• FGDC Standard DTD Original, Copy?

Become a node
If you are interested in becoming a node, download the WAGIS Documents and files and inform me of your WAGIS agent e-mail address as well as your Owner name.

Call For Developers

If you are interested in developing these standards, programmes or policies, please contact me franck@sopac.org