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

Tue May 13 14:57:54 CDT 2008

All,
Thank you for your response.
Let us give a talk.

The problem is ' who?'  :)
Volunteer ?

- Hidemoto

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Desprez Frédéric
<Frederic.Desprez at ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
>
>  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.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > --
>  > Yoshio Tanaka (yoshio.tanaka at aist.go.jp)
>  > http://ninf.apgrid.org/
>  > http://www.apgridpma.org/
>  >
>  >
>  > 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
>  >> Delivered-To: lee at ogf.org
>  >> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:48:22 -0500
>  >> From: OGC Press <announce at opengeospatial.org>
>  >> Organization: OGC
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>  >> For information about this announcement, contact:
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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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