Interoperability initiatives at CAST (on-going):

• participation in the OGC Web Services Phase 3 initiative

• OGC OWS-3

• participation in the 2004 NSDI Cooperative Agreement Program

• NSDI 2004 CAP

• development of MesoStor, Mesoamerica's first free on-line geospatial data delivery system

• MesoStor

• development of the first enterprise class statewide geospatial data system (GeoStor)

• GeoStor, Design and Architecture

• Policy, Open Standards and GIS: The Open GIS Story In Arkansas;
  (OGC User, July 2003)

• A CAST of Millions (of bytes of data);
  (Government Technology, Jan. 1999)

• Shop the GeoStor! One Stop Meets All Your Geospatial Needs;
  (GEO World, Aug. 2002)

Interoperability initiatives at CAST have included:

• development of one of the first interoperable web clients (IGO),

• Interoperable web client (IGO)

• development of one of the first multi-state interoperable mapping applications

• Regional National Map Project

• Open Standards-Based Architectures Scale Up;
  (Geospatial solutions, Mar. 2005)

• participation in the OGC Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development Pilot

• OGC GISD Pilot

• participation in the OGC Web Services Phase 2 initiative

• OGC OWS-2


• participation in the 2003 FGDC CAP:
  Expanding Sustainable Metadata Development for County and Local Government,
  Schools and the Private Sector

• participation in the 2002 FGDC CAP:
  Clearinghouse Integration with OpenGIS Services - The Arkansas GeoStor Web Map and Feature Server Portals

• Interoperable web client (IGO)

• participation in the 2000 FGDC CAP:
  Enhancing Economic Development in the Arkansas Delta Using Framework Data

• Arkansas Economic Atlas

• participation in the 1999 FGDC CAP:
  Don’t Duck Metadata

• participation in the 1998 FGDC CAP:
  The Arkansas GeoLibrary NSDI Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Node

• Arkansas GeoLibrary