WebDAV

WebDAV

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Published in David Austerberry, Digital Asset Management, 2012

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning. or webDAV, is a set of extensions to HTTP that enables the sharing of content in an authoring environment. A server that supports the webDAV protocol enables the management of file sharing. For example, one person can check out a file, but any number of workmates can view the file. The first release supported locking (concurrency control), file properties (metadata about the file stored as XML), and namespace manipulation, required when files are moved or copied to other domains. The concurrency control prevents one user overwriting the edits of another user. That is also a core function of an asset-management system. Therefore, although there may seem to be a crossover, webDAV is useful, because asset-management systems can leverage the technology.

A general-purpose framework for parallel processing of large-scale LiDAR data

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Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2018

Zhenlong Li, Michael E. Hodgson, Wenwen Li

The processing results were automatically collected from the 10 computing nodes to the web server and published as a data service (WebDAV) which can be downloaded through HTTP (Figure 12(A)). By mapping the data service Uniform Resource Locator as a computer Network Drive (Figure 12(B)), the processing results can be directly manipulated with existing software tools, such as using ArcMap to perform further process (Figure 12(C)) or using Google Earth to overlay the images to the terrain (Figure 12(D)).

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