OGC Web Services, Phase 9

22 February 2012. OGC has issued a Request for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in response to requirements for the OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed. 

The RFQ/CFP is available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/86.

Responses are due by 5 pm EST on April 6, 2012.

OWS-9 builds on the outcomes of prior OGC initiatives and is organized around the following threads:

-   Aviation: Develop and demonstrate the use of the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Exchange Model (WXXM) in an OGC Web Services environment, focusing on support for several Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) project requirements as well as FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) Aeronautical Information Management (AIM) and Aircraft Access to SWIM (System Wide Information Management) (AAtS) requirements.

-   Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI): Build on the CCI work accomplished in OWS–8 by increasing interoperability within communities sharing geospatial data, focusing on semantic mediation, query results delivery, data provenance and quality and Single Point of Entry Global Gazetteer.

-   Security and Services Interoperability (SSI): Investigate 5 main activities: Security Management, OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard Application Schema UGAS (UML to GML Application Schema) Updates, Web Services Façade, Reference Architecture Profiling, and Bulk Data Transfer.

-   OWS Innovations: Explore topics that represent either new areas of work for the Consortium (such as GPS and Mobile Applications), a desire for new approaches to existing technologies to solve new challenges (such as the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) work), or some combination of the two.

-   Compliance & Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE): Develop a suite of compliance test scripts for testing and validation of products with interfaces implementing the following OGC standards: Web Map Service (WMS) 1.3 Interface Standard, Web Feature Service (WFS) 2.0 Interface Standard, Geography Markup Language (GML) 3.2.1 Encoding Standard, OWS Context 1.0 (candidate encoding standard), Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards, Web Coverage Service for Earth Observation (WCS-EO) 1.0 Interface Standard, and TEAM (Test, Evaluation, And Measurement) Engine Capabilities.

The Master Schedule for OWS-9:

• Aug/Sep 2011         : Concept development
• October 2011          : Call for sponsors and sponsor meeting
• January 2012          : RFQ development
• February, 23 2012   : RFQ/CFP issued
• April 6. 2012           : Responses due
• May 14-16 2012      : Kickoff Workshop
• December 2012       : All deliverables due
• January 2013          : Demonstration event at OGC TC Meeting

If your organization is interested in this initiative, please contact Nadine Alameh (nalameh [at] opengeospatial [dot] org) and/or George Percival (gpercivall [at] opengeospatial [dot] org).

The OWS-9 sponsors are:

-   AGC (Army Geospatial Center, US Army Corps of Engineers)

-   CREAF-GeoViQua-EC

-   EUROCONTROL

-   FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration)

-   GeoConnections - Natural Resources Canada

-   Lockheed Martin Corporation

-   NASA (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

-   NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)

-   USGS (US Geological Survey)

-   UK DSTL (UK MoD Defence Science and Technology Laboratory)

OWS testbeds are part of OGC's Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGC's Specification Program, where they are formalized for public release. In OGC's Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiative's sponsoring organizations. OGC Interoperability Initiatives include test beds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services - all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.