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

Tue May 13 09:44:58 CDT 2008

Sure, good idea.

Le 8 mai 08 à 19:38, Yoshio Tanaka a écrit :

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> I think we should accept and give an overview talk.
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> Thanks,
>
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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
>>
>>
>>
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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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