Argonne National Laboratory, Building 900, Industrial Technology Development Center, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439

A -- RESEARCH PARTNERS SOUGHT FOR GIS SOFTWARE POC Paul Betten, Case Manager, (708) 252-4962. Argonne National Laboratory is seeking an industrial partner to help commercialize new software that represents a significant advance in the interactive presentation of information and multimedia data objects on the World Wide Web. The software allows Web-page authors to insert a variety of multimedia data objects quickly, efficiently, and interactively. Commercial application areas include realistic 3-D visualizations, tourism, real estate, geological surveys, emergency planning and response, environmental modeling and assessment, and land-use modeling. The distributed, object-oriented geographical information system, called DOOGIS, provides distributed access to multiple databases, presenting them as if they came from a single database. DOOGIS distributed access involves not only multiple servers, but also an ability to break down a single logical server into the constituent physical servers that actually store the data. The program provides for dynamic protocol resolution and content handling, allowing unknown objects from a particular server to download their handling code. Security and access privileges are negotiated dynamically with each server contact and each access attempt. Visual presentations can be images retrieved from geo-spatial servers, the Java-code representation of the geographical objects passed by the server, or a combination of the two. The software runs on Sun SPARC workstations and PCS using Solaris 2.3, 2.4, or 2.5 and Windows NT 3.5 (PC) with Windows 95. A server having at least 32 megabytes of RAM is also required, as are clients with 16 megabytes of RAM. Execution time varies with network speed, with a screen update taking about 15 to 25 seconds. Modems having a speed of 14.4 Kbps or better will take an additional 5 seconds. A Macintosh version is under development. No ANL funds are available for the partner's share of R & D efforts. Please direct inquiries to the DOOGIS Case Manager at Argonne, National Laboratory, ITD-900, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439; fax 708-252-5230. (214)

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