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Dear GALEON participants, Apologies if you've already seen this request through other channels. I am putting together a proposal to the UK Natural Environment Research Council <http://www.nerc.ac.uk> for a Knowledge Exchange <http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/kecall.asp> project that aims to harmonize the use of the Web Map Service within the met-ocean community. The need for this was identified at a recent workshop at ECMWF <http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2008/OGC_workshop/index.html> at which it became apparent that many of the world's major met-ocean forecasting centres are adopting WMS for sharing imagery of their data, but each provider is adopting a different set of home-grown conventions. The project will bring together a group of experts to develop a set of conventions (perhaps as an official OGC profile) and implement a test-bed, roughly speaking *doing for WMS what GALEON did for WCS*. More details about the proposal can be found here: http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/~jdb/MetMap_project_summary.pdf In order for the project to be funded and to succeed, we will need support from the community. Therefore *I am writing to see if anyone is willing to provide a letter of support* saying: (1) you think this is a good idea; and (2) you would be willing to join the expert group and give us the benefit of your knowledge and experience (at your own expense, unfortunately). If you are only able/willing to say (1) that is still very helpful, but the proposal will really be strengthened by the commitment of experts to the cause. I would really like to make sure that the lessons of GALEON feed into this process. If you are able to support this proposal in any way, please reply to me off-list *as soon as possible, on or before Thursday 19th February*. This represents a relatively rare opportunity to gain funds to pursue this kind of activity as part of the day job instead of in spare time! I hope you will consider this to be a valuable effort. With best wishes, Jon Blower -- Dr Jon Blower Technical Director, Reading e-Science Centre Environmental Systems Science Centre University of Reading Harry Pitt Building, 3 Earley Gate Reading RG6 6AL. UK Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5213 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6413 j.d.blower@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/People/Staff/Blower_J.htm
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