News update
April 2008
DNF Roadshow - Cardiff Millennium Stadium 7 May 2008
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DNF Roadshows - coming to a town near you!
AGI, in partnership with DNF, has put together four exciting Roadshows at different venues
across Great Britain:
"DNF - what's in it for me?"
The first DNF Roadshow will
take place on the 5th April at the Chapter Rooms in Cardiff, both delegate places and
exhibition slots are still available. Book now to avoid disappointment!
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DNF Registry goes live
The DNF Registry goes live on 3rd April. This will allow anyone to register their prefix and obtain a block of identifiers. See DNF website for more information closer to the date.
DNF to be at GeoDATA 2006
DNF will be exhibiting and presenting at forthcoming GeoDATA 2006 events. These are FREE training seminars for the GIS community and will be held in Liverpool, Glasgow, London and Cardiff during May. To find out more and register click here...
GDC Users to find out more about DNF
Delegates to the GDC User Conference on 31st May will be receiving information about DNF. Click here for more information on the event.
Successful system supplier events
The DNF Expert Group hosted two very successful system supplier (software vendor) briefing events in London and Reading. Twenty five delegates attended the first event in London, held at the Local Government Conference Centre in Westminster and eighteen delegates attended the briefing held at the Kirtons Hotel in Reading, the following week.
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DNF goes offshore
DNF has been represented at the Coastal Futures event and Oceanology International 2006
event by AGI and SeaZone Solutions Ltd. Mike Osbourne, Managing Director of SeaZone
Solutions Ltd., presented a paper entitled 'Extending the Digital National Framework
Offshore' at the AGI Marine and Coastal Zone GIS Conference - Oceans of Change, part of the
Oceanography International 2006 Conference. For more information click here.
Technical Progress Update
In December 2005 the DNF Expert Group reviewed and agreed a formal Reference Model that describes the scope of DNF components such as identifiers, feature catalogues, coordinate systems etc.
Since then the Technical Working Group has agreed a documentation map and work was started on several Technical Guidelines. These include Identifier Management, Cross-Referencing, with Area Referencing and Linear Referencing examples. It is intended that these will be reviewed and published on the Architecture pages of the website by the time of the next Expert Group in May.
A short summary of the outcomes from the Identifier Consultation will be published by the end of March, also on the Architecture pages.
