Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment Web Page

Introduction

• This is my Web Page for organising information about the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment.
• Contents:
  • OGC GeoLinking IE
  • People
  • Organisations
  • Brief
  • GLS Client
  • NCeSS Use Case
  • Action List
  • Blog
  • References
  • Validation and Metadata

OGC GeoLinking IE

• Aim: To produce a OGC Geospatial Linkage Service (GLS) Specification.
• Coordinator: Peter Schut
• Working with others as a UK SEE-GEO Consortium we have this brief.

People

• UK SEE-GEO Consortium working on the GeoLinking IE
  • EDINA
    • Chris Higgins
    • Michael Koutroumpas
    • David Medyckyj-Scott
  • JISC
    • Alison Turner
  • NCeSS
    • Mike Daw
    • MoSeS Leeds
      • Paul Townend
      • Andy Turner
  • MIMAS/GEMS
    • Keith Cole
    • Pascal Ekin
    • Gail Millin
    • Dave Rawnsley
  • NeSC
    • Ally Hume
    • Lihao Liang
    • John Watt
• Peter Schut
• Hongliang Li
• Yinsoo You

Organisations

• UK SEE-GEO Consortium working on the GeoLinking IE
  • EDINA
  • JISC
  • MIMAS
  • NCeSS
  • NeSC
  • UoE
  • UoL
  • UoM
• OGC

Brief

• Description of Work for UK Partners (MIMAS, EDINA, NCeSS)
  • Developing a GeoLinking Service (GLS) for a Geolinked Data Access Service (GDAS) developed by MIMAS/NCeSS, and a GDAS or Web Feature Service (WFS) developed by EDINA/NeSC.
  • At the University of Leeds (UoL) as part of on-going work on the NCeSS MoSeS Node and NCeSS e-Infrastructure project we are to develop a Use Case
  and a Client which consumes output from the GLS.
  • This is eScience work involving researchers and service providers at EDINA, NeSC, MIMAS, NCeSS and is also wrapped as part of the JISC OGC Grid Collision.
• The work is to take place from 2007-01 and should take a few months.
• There is no funding specifically for this work, but it's in the remit of on-going projects.
• We are tackling a problem sooner rather than later and as a collaboration with commensurable benefits.

GLS Client

• Paul Townend's generic GLS Client Code is available under a liberal open source license via the following URL:
  • http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/content/group/18e05b54-6c2e-4963-80a1-b56ef16ec87b/WP4.1%20-%20Simulation%20Tools/GLS/GLS%20Client/gls.zip
• User interface similar to GLS Client Application by University of Nottingham and GDC (developed by Hongliang Li), complete with a dummy JSR-168 compliant java application:
  • GLS Client Development Server, Open Access Server.
• GLS URLs used to test:
  • http://morillo.cps.unizar.es:8082/gls-server/
• GDAS URLs used to test:
  • http://wps.agr.gc.ca/nlwis_gdas/service.gdas
• By pressing the right buttons, the NCeSS MoSeS GLS Client gets a map of Spain showing some regions and some numbers, presumably human population count.
• Canadian NFIS GLS CLient

NCeSS Use Case

• There is to be Use Case for the NCeSS e-Infrastructure Project incorporating this Use Case.
• MoSeS-NCeSS e-Infrastructure use case Version 0.0.3
• MoSeS-NCeSS e-Infrastructure use case Version 0.0.1

Action List

• Refer to OGC GDAS and GLS Specification Documents Wiki Page
• Refer to GeoLinkingIE Schemas and Examples
• Develop NCeSS Use Case
• Work with Michael and Paul to marry the GLS Client with the GLS in respect of the NCeSS MoSeS Use Case.

Blog

• 2008-05-27 Preparation for presenting on GLS at OGC TC 2008-06-02
• 2008-04-30 With consent I made Paul Townend's generic GLS Client Code available as open source via the following URL:
  • http://portal.ncess.ac.uk/access/content/group/18e05b54-6c2e-4963-80a1-b56ef16ec87b/JSR-168/gls.zip
• ...
• 2007-09-06 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-09-06 Web Page
• 2007-08-19 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Minutes
• 2007-08-03 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-08-03 Web Page
• 2007-07-06 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-07-06 Web Page
• 2007-06-22 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-06-22 Web Page
• 2007-06-18 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-06-18 Web Page
• 2007-06-05 to Present
  • Working with Michael and Paul to develop the GLS Client and GLS Server together in respect of the NCeSS MoSeS Use Case.
• 2007-06-01 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-06-01 Web Page
• 2007-05-17 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-05-17 Web Page
• 2007-04-27 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-04-27 Web Page
• 2007-04-20 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-04-20 Web Page
• 2007-04-10 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See Andy Turner's OGC GeoLinking IE Meeting 2007-04-10 Web Page
• 2007-04-10 NCeSS Use Case (Version 0.0.3)
• 2007-04-04 NCeSS Use Case (Version 0.0.2)
• 2007-03-30 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See 2007-03-30 OGC Grid Collision, NCeSS e-Infrastructure, MoSeS, GeoLinking IE item 2
• 2007-03-30 Emailed Dave Rawnsley to let him know what CAS data we are using in MoSeS. See 2007-03-30 OGC Grid Collision, NCeSS e-Infrastructure, MoSeS, GeoLinking IE item 1
• 2007-03-29 Timetabled a meeting with Chris Higgins and Mike Daw for sometime between 10th and 12th April to discuss marrying the OGC GeoLinking IE and NCeSS e-Infrastructure deliverables.
• 2007-03-23 UK Collaborator Teleconference. See 2007-03-23 OGC Grid Collision, NCeSS e-Infrastructure, MoSeS, GeoLinking IE item 2
• 2007-03-23 Email with Dave Rawnsley starting the conversation about what CAS data is used in MoSeS
• 2007-03-14 Communications with Chris Higgins and Paul Townend.
• 2007-02-27 Mention GeoLinking work to Mike Daw in a MoSeS Joint meeting with NCeSS e-Infrastructure project. See 2007-02-27 MoSeS
• 2007-02-21 Communication with Chris Higgins and meeting with Paul Townend. See 2007-02-22 GeoLinking
• 2007-02-20 Asked Peter Schut to add Paul to the GeoLinking IE so he can access the twiki : Geolinking Interoperability Experiment WIKI
• 2007-02-16 Communication with Chris Higgins. See 2007-02-16 GeoLinking IE and NCeSS e-Infrastructure
• 2007-02-12 Created a comprehensive weekly Google Alert on the topic "GeoLinking geographic information"
• 2007-02-06 Sent confirmation to Chris that we (UoL) have read and are happy for UoE to sign the Participation Agreement.
• 2007-02-02 NCeSS Use Case (Version 0.0.1)
• 2007-01-15 Missed Kick Off meeting January 15th (Teleconference)
• 2007-01-10 Telecon with EDINA and MIMAS - all seem keen to go ahead although some need to look documentation over before committing to do too much work. See Blog for details.
• 2007-01-03 Browsed Geolinking Interoperability Experiment WIKI
• 2006-12-04 Confirmation that I've joined the Geolinking.IE mailing list.
• 2006-12-02 Read OpenGIS Project Document 06-183: Activity Plan for a proposed Interoperability Experiment: Testing of the GeoLinking Service Specification: Activity Plan Version 1.0
• 2006-12-01 Registered interest with Peter Schut.
• 2006-11-30 Logged email announcement from Carl Reed.

• References

  • OGC
  • OGC GeoLinkingIE
  • Kick Off meeting January 15th (Teleconference)?
  • OGC Portal Page for Registering as an Observer on the GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment
  • Google Alert references on GeoLinking
    • Jonas Johansson (2006) Standardised Access to Geospatial Information and Services - Towards a European Infrastructure for Geospatial Information. Master's Thesis Project, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University.
    • http://wms1.agr.gc.ca/gdas/gdas.phtml
    • http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/geoPortal10/EDINA_GI_Standards_Report.doc

Validation and Metadata

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• Version 0.9.0 of this file last modified 2008-05-28.
• Page hosted on the School of Geography webserver at the University of Leeds.
• Copyright: Andy Turner, University of Leeds