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NASA's Return On Investment of Interoperability Standards

posted by Satri on Monday February 13, @07:38AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the long-term-benefits dept.

Geospatial Solutions offers a great article about NASA's investments in open geospatial interfaces to make its Earth observations, model outputs, and online processing services more accessible to its federal partners and other stakeholders. From the article: "Overall, the ROI study yielded quantified assessments of the benefits of standards utilization. It provided a solid endorsement of a standards-based, Internet-based strategy for providing access to geoscience data, models, and services. Currently, NASA is using OGC interfaces and other standards in a number of ways."

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  by Anonymous Voxel on Monday February 13, @03:15PM (#438)

  The April 2005 (not new!) is online (pdf):
  http://gio.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ROI%20Study.pdf [nasa.gov]