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provide input on LINC requirements, review 
LINC design including acting as beta testers, and 
report to the LINC Steering Committee. 
The LINC Technical Group consists of members 
representing the resource holdings to be accessed 
by LINC. The LINC Technical Group provide the 
necessary technical information, as well as review 
all the technical proposals made throughout the 
project. 
5. CONCLUSIONS 
LINC will be the operational system to provide 
access to SMRSS geomatics products. It will be 
implemented in a series of phases, or versions, 
with the Baseline Version scheduled for operation 
in 1996. Initially, efforts will focus on providing 
access to meta-data on SMRSS geomatics 
products, but subsequent versions will provide 
increased access to the actual geomatics data 
holdings. In addition to the technology (i.e. 
hardware and software) required for such a 
system, the LINC project also includes the 
development of the necessary policies and 
standards that are required to make it a truly 
operational system. Efforts will be supported for 
the collection, maintenance and serving of the 
meta-data and geomatics data that will be 
available through LINC. A contract will be signed 
with private industry in mid 1994 for the 
development of a baseline LINC. 
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Group 4, "Proposed Standard Survey 
Form for Collecting Directory 
Information Describing Digital Geo- 
Referenced Datasets", 1993 
Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical 
Names, "Gazetteer of Canada" Brochure. 
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites, 
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Subgroup, "Guidelines for an 
International Interoperable Catalogue 
System", Issue 2.1, April 1993. 
Federal Geographic Data Committee, "Draft 
Content Standards for Spatial Metadata, 
November 3", November 3, 1992 
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Geographic Information Systems Division, 
SMRSS, "Delta-X: A Federated Spatial 
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Geographic Information Systems Division, 
SMRSS, "MetaView/GIS: A GIS Spatial 
Browser". 
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"PlaNet - SMRS Products and Services 
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June 1993.