[GRIDRPC-WG] Fwd: OGF support for OGC Web Processing Service spec?

Thu May 8 12:38:58 CDT 2008

I think we should accept and give an overview talk.

Thanks,

--
Yoshio Tanaka (yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp)
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From: "Hidemoto Nakada" <hide-nakada at aist.go.jp>
Subject: [GRIDRPC-WG] Fwd: OGF support for OGC Web Processing Service spec?
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 11:02:54 +0900
Message-ID: <bb196d260805061902o5d9eba97jfc7ce016b0ee8786 at mail.gmail.com>

> All,
> 
> We've got an invitation for a talk at the upcoming OGC-OGF workshop at
> OGF-23 from Craig,  one of the co-chairs.
> 
> I think we should give it.
> 
> any idea?
> 
> -hidemoto
> 
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From:  <lee at aero.org>
> Date: Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: OGF support for OGC Web Processing Service spec?
> To: lee at aero.org, Hidemoto Nakada <hide-nakada at aist.go.jp>, Yves
> Caniou <yves.caniou at ens-lyon.fr>, s.jha at ucl.ac.uk, kielmann at cs.vu.nl,
> Andre Merzky <andre at merzky.net>, Andrew Grimshaw
> <grimshaw at virginia.edu>, Steven Newhouse
> <Steven.Newhouse at microsoft.com>, humphrey at cs.virginia.edu, Geoffrey
> Fox <gcf at grids.ucs.indiana.edu>, Christopher Smith
> <csmith at platform.com>
> Cc: Satoshi Sekiguchi <s.sekiguchi at aist.go.jp>, Chris Higgins
> <erpl70 at holyrood.ed.ac.uk>, George Percivall
> <gpercivall at opengeospatial.org>, craig at rushg.aero.org, scumb at ogf.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> 
> As part of the upcoming OGC-OGF workshop in Barcelona at OGF-23, I would
> very much like to get a brief overview talk from (ideally ;-) the
> SAGA, GridRPC,
> and HPC-Basic Profile groups.
> 
> 
> The OGF-23 workshop is being coordinated with the OGC Technical Committee
> meeting which is taking place the exact same days as OGF-23 but in
> Potsdam, Germany.
> 
> 
> Hence, while these overview talks will be presented in Barcelona, their primary
> audience is intended to be the OGC folks who will be in Potsdam.
> 
> 
> OGC represents a potential new user community for OGF grid tools so this is
> an important opportunity.  Also, the next OGC Web Services Testbed, OWS-6,
> is still in the planning process, and what we discuss in this workshop could
> very well be picked up for testing and demonstration by the OWS-6 sponsors
> and participants.
> 
> 
> Please let me know if your group can provide an overview talk.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> --Craig
> 
> 
> 
> 
> At 12:52 PM -0800 2/29/08, lee at aero.org wrote:
> All,
> 
> 
> This request is an action that came out of this week's OGC-OGF
> Collaboration workshop.
> 
>  OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) has just announced version 1.0 of their Web
>  Processing Service.  (I've forwarded the press release below.)  I've looked at
>  earlier versions of this document and based on my initial
> assessments, it seems
> that WPS could very possibly map to:
> 
> 
> 1) HPC-Basic Profile  (How would WPS work w/ JSDL and BES?)
> 2) GridRPC  (Besides the call-response, could Data Handles be used in WPS?)
>  3) SAGA  (Much like the GridRPC package, could there be a WPS package?)
> 
> It would be extremely helpful to get others from each of these groups to make
> their own assessment.  WPS is a basic request-response mechanism with only basic
>  support for managing where the data is.  Depending on who you ask, ~80% of the
>  data the human race has collected or generated is geospatial
> referenced.  Hence,
>  OGC represents a huge user base for geospatial data and, imho, is a natural
>  adjacency for grids.  All insights, issues, and comments are desired!
> 
>  I know that many of us are very busy and simply will not have time to read an
>  86-page document from beginning to end.  But, as with many standards documents,
>  the core of the spec is presented in only about ten pages, with the rest of the
>  doc being necessary detail to clearly define the spec.  Hence, pages 4-11
>  present the WPS overview, and pages 11-48 go into more detail about the three
>  main WPS functions: GetCapability, DescribeProcess, and Execute.
> 
> Please let me know right away if you can help with this assessment.
> I'd like to collect comments in a few weeks.
> 
>  Thanks,
> 
>  --Craig
> 
> 
> 
> Delivered-To: lee at aero.org
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>  Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:48:22 -0500
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> 
>  Wayland, Mass., February 22, 2008 - The members of the Open Geospatial
>  Consortium, Inc. (OGC) have approved version 1.0 of the OpenGIS(R)
>  Web Processing Service (WPS) Interface Standard.
> 
>  The WPS standard defines an interface that facilitates the publishing
>  of geospatial processes and makes it easier to write software clients
>  that can discover and bind to those processes. Processes include any
>  algorithm, calculation or model that operates on spatially referenced
>  raster or vector data. Publishing means making available
> machine-readable binding information as well as human-readable
>  metadata that allows service discovery and use.
> 
>  A WPS can be used to define calculations as simple as subtracting one
>  set of spatially referenced data from another (e.g., determining the
>  difference in influenza cases between two different seasons), or as
>  complicated as a hydrological model. The data required by the WPS can
>  be delivered across a network or it can be made available at the
>  server. This interface specification provides mechanisms to identify
>  the spatially referenced data required by the calculation, initiate
>  the calculation, and manage the output from the calculation so that
>  the client can access it.
> 
>  The OGC's WPS standard will play an important role in automating
>  workflows that involve geospatial data and geoprocessing services.
> 
>  The OGC(R) is an international consortium of more than 345
>  companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
>  universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
>  available geospatial standards. OpenGIS(R) Standards support
>  interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless
>  and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
>  technology developers to make geospatial information and services
>  accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
>  geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
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