The WIS Project Office (WISPO) has created accounts for some CBS members. Details for logging into WIS Wiki and to the JIRA case tracking system and activating their accounts are being sent. For more details, please refer to the Outcome of the ICG-WIS 6 (Korea) http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/meetings_reports_en.html and consult with your expert team chair or the WISPO

We have created a collaborative geonetwork documentaton in the WISWIKI. With the help of Jose Mauro Rezende from INMET Brazil we have created documentation on installing Geonetwork in a Linux environment with tomcat, a discussion of the databases that can be used as backend for Geonetwork and a summary of the experiences made during a metadata synchronization test using OAI between nodes in the USA, Brazil and at WMO. There is also a section explaining OAI and discussing how it can be used to achieve GISC synchronization in WIS.

The Documentation can be found in the WISWIKI -> documentation of WIS. www.wmo.int/wiswiki

The WIS SRU training page has a new feature, allowing the user to validate the responses coming from a SRU server against the WIS SRU schema (SRU 1.1). Compliance with this schema is crucial for WIS search interoperability. The validation can be done by going to the WIS SRU training page http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/wissruform.html , inputting a query into the textbox and pressing "Validate" instead of "Send". The server will then retrieve the SRU response, validate it and output the result to the user.

The SRU schema files can be found on the WISWIKI -> Documentation of WIS -> SRU documentation. www.wmo.int/wiswiki

We have also made available a new version of Geonetwork, complying with the WIS SRU schema. The support for error handling is also much improved, so that the diagnostics schema of SRU is now fully supported. The installer can be downloaded by following the link on the WISWIKI SRU documentation page.

Visit WIS training activities page to see the International Workshop "Towards the Successful Implementation of WMO Information System (WIS) in Asia"- Organized by Japan Meteorological Agency, this workshop was held in Tokyo from 9 to 11 March 2010. Participants were from 15 National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in Asian and neighboring WMO Member countries as well as lecturers from China, Germany, the United States of America and the World Meteorological Organization. See http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/training_en.html

We have just made available the result of a workshop at DWD, a java based SRU interface to JDBC databases.

SRU2JDBC, as it is called, extends the range of choices available to members for building SRU interfaces.

SRU2JDBC runs in any J2EE container such as tomcat, and can thus be intergrated nicely into a java based environment.

To learn more go to the project homepage, where you find documentation and can also download the sourcecode.

Today we were informed that the Japanese Meteorological Agency's candidate GISC implementation now supports SRU.

The interface can be reached at http://www.gisc.kishou.go.jp/cgi-bin/darc-sru.cgi and has some nice features.

* it makes usage of XSLT to transform the plain XML SRU output into HTML, which looks much nicer in the browser.

* it has a default page with some information and a form to help the user building SRU queries.


The XSLT, used for the displaying of results and also the explain operation (the default page which explains how to user the service), shows nicely the concept of how both human and machine users can be served using the same XML code. While the source code of the page (try displaying it) is plain XML, the human view is rendered through a XSL transformation.

We have added a link to it to our WIS SRU training page.