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The
GTOS Secretariat would like to thank all the participants
that attended the workshop and contributed to its successful
outcome. We hope that the training has been useful for your
future work back in your institutes.
Best regards,
GTOS Secretariat
Introduction
Dynamic
Atlas is an FAO information management system for spatial
(map), image, tabular (spreadsheet) and unstructured (document)
data as well as metadata. The software allows the user to
store, recall and generate information making it more accessible
and useful. To date the software has been used for a number
of projects in various countries including Afghanistan, Canada,
Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Venezuela and Yemen.
Dynamic Atlas is made up of a suite of programmes which includes:
Dynamic Maps, which is a desktop solution for data visualization
and mapping capability, and Dynamic Atlas, which enables all
the information to be kept in one structured database (warehouse),
thus promoting standards and data sharing.
Participants
GTOS has invited workshop participants from Bulgaria, the
Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic,
Slovenia and the Ukraine.
Date
4-6
June 2002
Location
Budapest,
Hungary
Agenda *new*
Please note
that the morning sessions will start at 9am and afternoon
sessions will finish at approximately 5pm.
Day 1
Introductory presentations
..Introduction to GTOS
..Information
publishing and access – The information imperative
..
Overview of Dynamic Maps
Running
Dynamic Maps for the first time
The
Dynamic Maps interface / windows
..Using
topics
..Accessing
information
Choosing
and manipulating map layers
The active layer
..Finding features
..Selecting features
Map
layer rendering
Drawing
and annotating
Creating
views
Working
with related data
· Spreadsheet functionality
review
·
Using class rendering to illustrate trends in
data
·
Building a query to focus data for use
·
Importing a data sets
·
Strategies for using Excel
Working
with related information
· Publishing documents,
images, web links, descriptions
Using
the map composer
· Using PowerPoint....
Day
2
Installing and running Dynamic Knowledgebase
for the first time
The system architecture and warehouse components
First
steps in creating and managing warehouses
·
Getting the data ready
·
Importing, opening, modifying, adding warehouses
.
Dynamic
Knowledgebase functionality
Registering
map layers
·
Selectable
/ active map layers
· Background vector data
layers
· Image data layers
· Label layers
·
Setting scale and visibility
· Defining rendering properties
· Adding metadata
Registering
system data sets
· Access, dBase, and Excel
considerations
· Security
Building
topics
· Topic structure and
concepts
· Adding map layers
· Layer order tips
· Adding system data sets
Using
spatial libraries
Data
setup considerations
· Conversion and data
preparation issues
· Link field standards
Dynamic
Knowledgebase for web publishing
Other
considerations (time permitting)
· Building a data dictionary
/ recording data standards - the feature ID
· Creating a thematic
map using an associated tabular data set
· Using ArcView with the
system
· Backups and database
management
Getting
started in your home office
· Review of steps needed
to install and run the system when return to home office
Day
3
Review
of software
· Class review of components
and functionality
Documentation
Document
1 - Dynamic Atlas, version 3.0 
(141 KB)
Document
2 - List of Participants
(452 KB)
Document
3 - GTOS CEE Implementation Plan
(541 K)
Contact
points
Dr
Reuben Sessa, GTOS
For further details on Dynamic Publishing Tools contact Dr
John Latham, SDRN
GTOS Secretariat
FAO, SDRN
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
I-00100 Rome, Italy
e-mail: GTOS@fao.org
Mr Hugh Williams
Business Development
Spatial Knowledge Engineering Inc.
http://www.skeinc.com/
416-252-3022
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FAO :: Global Terrestrial Observing
System - GTOS :: 19 June 2002
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