April 20 - 21 Meeting in Gaithersburg just announced

I am pleased to announce our April 20 - 21 meeting in Gaithersburg is open for regisitration.

You can learn more about the location of the meeting, hotel, get directions, and register for the meeting just below or on our web site here.

We look forward to seeing you there!

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

Special Keynote on Cloud Computing and B2B

Using OAGIS in the Cloud

OAGIS Case Studies

OAGi Updates and briefings on Council activities

OAGIS Release 10 Working Group meeting on day two

MEETING AGENDA

The draft meeting agenda is online here.

If you have any questions, please write to us at meetings@oagi.org. We encourage you to make your reservations as soon as possible and we look forward to seeing you there!

REGISTER NOW - EVERYONE IS WELCOME

If you plan to attend, you must register for security requirements. You can register for the meeting on our web site here.

All OAGi members attend for free, but you do not have to be an OAGi member to attend. Individual members and non-members pay only a $275.00 fee to cover expenses.

OAGIS Release 9.5 Public Review Webinar Announced

OAGi invites you to join us for a review of the new OAGIS Release 9.5.  We are planning to do two webinars, with the same content two weeks apart.  If you can't make this one we will have another two weeks from this one.

You will be briefed on the background of the Release, the content of the Release, and you will be given an opportunity to ask questions.  This webinar is planned to last 35 minutes and it is free.

Title: OAGIS 9.5 Review and Public Comment
Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Time: Noon Eastern US Time

Register here

Once you register, we will send you the conference call information.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you there!

OAGIS Navigator for Chem eStandards now available

I am pleased to announce that the OAGIS Navigator for Chem eStandards Release 5.1 is now available for download.

We are very pleased to make this outstanding tool available to our members and standards users.  The purpose of the tool is to provide the ability to view the Chem eStandards without buying specialized software tools, but it is also much more than just a viewer.

Some of the other features include:

Extract an Excel definition

Generate sample XML

Create a Schema subset

Copy the XPath to the clipboard

Send feedback to OAGi

The Navigator is free to OAGi members and can be downloaded directly from our Members portion of the OAGi website.  If you are a member of the ACC ChemITC group, the Browser is just US $100.00.  For non-members, it is available for the nominal price of US $200.00.If you would like to purchase the browser, please write to us.

You can view screenshots of the Navigator and learn more on our website here.

Thank you to the OAGi members who contributed to this software product.  If you are not a member of OAGi, I encourage you to view our membership value proposition on our web site here.

OAGi Meeting Announcement

We have set the dates for our upcoming face to face meetings in the USA this year.  We are still working on the dates for our European meeting and plan to announce that date soon.

The dates and locations in the USA are:

Policy Board Meeting	April 19, 2011	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland
Plenary and Working Groups	April 20 - 21, 2011	NIST	Gaithersburg, Maryland

Policy Board Meeting	November 15, 2011	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Plenary and Working Groups	November 16 - 17, 2011	Oracle	Redwood Shores, CA, USA

Looking forward to seeing you there!