RDX 2004 Training Seminars All conference attendees and the public are invited to participate in the training seminars conducted from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm on Tuesday, October 26. Pre-registration is required to participate. There are seven seminars, and guests may choose one for $75 U.S. or two for $125 U.S., which saves you $25 U.S.!
Training Seminar Schedule There will be three morning seminars (8:30 am - noon) and four afternoon seminars (1:00-4:30 pm). Participants may choose one morning and one afternoon seminar. Details on seminar times are on the Conference Program page.
Morning Seminars (8:30 am - noon)
Seminar Topic:
Flash design and development
Description:
What is Flash, and why is it so popular? Flash not only pushes the limits of Web design, animation, and multimedia, but makes it possible to build dynamic web tools that are also easily portable for stand-alone media. Learn the possibilities, limitations, tips and tricks of this versatile authoring tool.
Discover the ways in which web mapping has advanced recently with the introduction of Specifications by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC). During this seminar, you will get introduced to how a Canadian agency has effectively leveraged a standards-based spatial infrastructure and you will learn how these services can easily enable spatial content on your web site. This session will use a simple, yet powerfully customizable toolkit for developing web-mapping applications called Chameleon.
What products and services are currently available, and which are right for you? This workshop will introduce concepts on how to design and implement voice and video over IP networks.
Great Lakes Internet Backbone – Internet2 and E-learning
Description:
High-speed networking is a strategic need for research and education organizations in Michigan. The course will introduce the best practices in networking, technology development and web-based learning.
This half-day course is designed to get you started regardless of your previous exposure to GML. Except for the first three introductory topics, this is a technical course, which assumes previous exposure to XML technologies and a working knowledge of programming languages and system modeling concepts (including UML). The first topic is non-technical and is intended to give a conceptual picture of what GML offers and the benefits it offers over similar technologies available today. The course will provide some details on key XML technologies including, in particular, XML Schema, XLink and XPointer. The course will focus specifically on how GML is used rather than on a detailed review of the specification.
Pre-Requisites:
The course will focus specifically on how to use GML rather than on a detailed review of the specification.
The focus of this course will be on tools for the development of standards-compliant metadata for geospatial and non-geospatial data. While most people working with GIS data are familiar with the need for and use of metadata, it is sometimes difficult to actually produce this information or to share it in meaningful, widely available ways. The course will begin with a brief introduction of some of the major schemas for metadata (FGDC, ISO, Dublin Core). Following this introduction, we will demonstrate the use of a number of different software tools for metadata creation and sharing. A mix of both proprietary and free, open source tools will be discussed to meet the needs of all users in attendance.
Learn how to better implement and maintain Internet, intranet, and extranet infrastructure and services as well as develop related applications. Strategies on reducing email spam will also be discussed.
