The work of the consortium concentrates on helping upstream oil and natural gas companies through the development, support, and promotion of standards that address data definition, handling, storage, and exchange in the context of technology, computing, communications, and business processes.
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OSNI also maintained the UK's only common address database, Pointer, which cross matches and validates the address data from the Royal Mail, Valuation and Lands Agency, OSNI and local authorities, and georeferences each address, as well as giving it a unique identifier.
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The project was initiated and managed by the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program under the direction of Kerstin Lehnert to address data curation obstacles such as different samples that share the same name, and samples that are renamed as they move between laboratories and thus generating analyses that are published under different aliases.
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With the new 9-1-1 system dispatchers have quicker access to a caller's telephone and address data and it introduced a mapping system to automatically plot emergency calls on a map, allowing for a faster response by emergency personnel as dispatchers previously had to look up addresses on the map manually.
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In May 2005 local authorities in the UK signed an agreement ( Mapping Services Agreement ) with suppliers of geographic data, which included Ordnance Survey and the managers of the NLPG . This solved the issues surrounding ownership of address data and contained many restrictions on the use of LLPGs by local authorities as well as compulsions upon local authorities to maintain their LLPGs.
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This figure illustrates the high-level paradigm for remote interprocess communications using CORBA . The CORBA specification further addresses data typing, exceptions, network protocols, communication timeouts, etc . For example : Normally the server side has the Portable Object Adapter ( POA ) that redirects calls either to the local servants or ( to balance the load ) to the other servers.
