ICAN receives the portal "Atlas Lagoon of Venice"
Venice Local Governament, together with ISMAR, accomplishes a membership with the International Coastal Atlas Network fot the outreach of the web portal "Atlas Lagoon of Venice".
Thursday 17 February 2011
Via the expertise of its members, ICAN intends to inform, guide and influence in a coherent manner on matters related to research, development and use of coastal web atlases. ICAN is developing several products for this purpose, such as user and developer guides, handbooks and articles on best practices, information on standards and web services, expertise and technical support directories, education, outreach, and funding opportunities, etc. Furthermore, it will encourage and help facilitate global operational interoperability between coastal atlases in order to enhance data and information sharing among users.
The membership to the ICAN web site helps a wider dissemination of the "Atlas Lagoon of Venice" web portal and to directly downloadfrom the ICAN site an introduction to the project.
