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| Definitionskos:definition | For many years OGC has been developing a suite of standards defining web services interfaces and encodings for geospatial processing. The suite includes a Web Map Service (WMS), a Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS), a Web Feature Service (WFS), a Web Coverage Service (WCS), a Web Catalogue Service (CSW), the Sensor Web (SWE) suite of services, etc. These service interfaces and their implementations have, more or less, been developed independently of one another resulting in isolation and poor integration between them. For example, consider a map generated by a WMS. A client or user cannot easily determine which source data was used to create the map and how to download that source data though an OGC data service such as WFS or WCS. Furthermore when one considers the Publish-Find-Bind paradigm, OGC can only partially support the full potential of this paradigm. This is because OGC structured catalogues can only register services in isolation of other related services and cannot automatically determine the relationships among services and the resources they offer. In order to achieve better integration between OGC web services and enhance the publish-find-bind paradigm, this OGC Engineering Report defines and discusses three key elements. These are: Defining a new service, called the Web Integration Service (WIS), which allows for the discovery and access to integrated sets of OGC web services deployed at an endpoint. Specifying a means of discovering and describing associations between web resources (both OGC and non-OGC). Defining extensions to the OGC catalogue to allow the service to harvest and make discoverable a rich set of linked OGC and non-OGC resources. The Web Integration Service (WIS) is an aggregation service whose only purpose is to provide a list of references to a suite of other, perhaps related OGC services available at an endpoint. A new operation, named GetAssociations, is defined as an extension such that existing OGC services (WMS, WFS, WCS, etc.) may implement this operation in order to support rich auto-discovery. This operation enables OGC web services to externalize their internal association knowledge about their content and relationships to other OGC and external resources. For example, a WMS would know if the source data for a layer it offers is a Shapefile, or a WFS feature type, or another WMS layer (i.e. cascading), or if a WMTS layer exists that renders the same information more efficiently. This internal knowledge can now be externalized via the GetAssociations operation. Currently, OGC Catalogues Service instances can harvest the capabilities document of an OGC web service, register that service, register the existence of the individual offerings that the service offers and also register the association between the service and the content it offers. Thus, the entire harvesting process is focused on a single OGC web service and consequently offers a limited scope of discovery. In order to support rich discovery, a catalogue needs to be able to automatically register services found at an endpoint as well as register all known associations among those services, their offerings and other OGC and non-OGC resources. This involves harvesting a service’s capabilities document to determine what content the service offers but it also involves further interrogating the service to determine of what (if any) other associations it is aware. Populated with this enhanced knowledge a client may now use a catalogue to, for example, find the description of feature data and then be able to find the WFS that offer that data, a WMS that renders those features into a map, a WMTS that has a tiled representation of that data, etc. In order to support this kind of rich discovery, a new CSW-ebRIM package is specified that defines ebRIM object types, associations, classifications and stored queries that support the description of integrated OGC web service and their artifacts within the catalogue. |
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| Broaderbroader | Public Engineering Report |
| http://purl.org/dc/terms/createdcreated | 2017-03-10 |
| Creatorcreator | Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos |
| seeAlsoseeAlso | https://docs.ogc.org/per/16-043.html |
| Statusstatus | valid |
| Notationnotation | 16-043 |
| Alternative LabelaltLabel | Testbed-12 Web Integration Service |
| 16-043 | |
| OGC document typedoctype | Public Engineering Report |