Blue Angel Technologies Inc. Announces New Meta Data Information Service.VALLEY FORGE Valley Forge, on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777–June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1997-- GILS GILS Government Information Locator Service GILS Government/Industry Logistics Support GILS GPS Interference Location System GILS Ground Independent Landing System GILS Global Information Locator Service GILS Government Information Locator Services Service Targeted at Smaller Government Agencies Blue Angel Technologies Inc. introduces Friday a new service designed to help government agencies comply with their need to make information available to the public over the Internet. The new Blue Angel Government Information Locator LOCATOR, civil law. He who leases or lets a thing to hire to another. His duties are, 1st. To deliver to the hirer the thing hired, that he may use it. 2d. To guaranty to the hirer the free enjoyment of it. 3d. Service (GILS) takes advantage of several new Blue Angel software products to provide an easy-to-use, inexpensive service for publishing and maintaining government agency information for public use. "Government agencies have a need to make their information available to the public as part of Freedom of Information mandates," said Jim Restivo, president of Blue Angel Technologies. "Larger agencies typically have the resources and expertise needed to organize and publish their data on the Internet. But smaller agencies tend to have difficulty making this happen," Restivo continued. "The Blue Angel GILS service is geared to those government agencies that don't have the resources or expertise to effectively comply with the government's GILS requirements." GILS is a standard that is being used by government and commercial entities around the world to define a common structure for information. The GILS service is specifically designed so that it can be used effectively regardless of level of technical proficiency pro·fi·cien·cy n. pl. pro·fi·cien·cies The state or quality of being proficient; competence. Noun 1. proficiency - the quality of having great facility and competence . "For example," explained Margaret St. Pierre, chief technical officer, "those customers that are not comfortable working with computers or the GILS standard can submit information in hard copy form and Blue Angel Technologies will format, publish and maintain the information for them. "On the other hand, those customers that would like to do so may publish and maintain their own information over the Internet using Blue Angel's new software tools." At the heart of the new GILS service is Blue Angel Technologies Meta Data Server (MDS MDS, n See temporomandibular pain-dysfunction syndrome. MDS 1 Maternal deprivation syndrome, see there 2 Myelodysplastic syndrome, see there )(TM) that is accessed from the Internet through one of the many popular web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
"Customers tend to be comfortable working with browsers, so we have developed a Java applet A Java program that is downloaded from the server and run from the browser. The Java Virtual Machine built into the browser is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java application. that works within the browser," continued St. Pierre. "Besides being easy to use, the Java applet is platform independent which is a necessity when dealing with government agencies that have such a wide variety of hardware." Blue Angel Technologies Inc. is located in Valley Forge. For more information about the new GILS service visit http://www.gils.com . CONTACT: Blue Angel Technologies Inc., Valley Forge James Restivo, 610/917-9200, restivo@bluangel.com |
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