© 2006 OpenGridForum February 26, 2008 OGC-OGF Collaboration Workshop Chris Higgins, EDINA/Edinburgh Craig A. Lee, The Aerospace Corporation Satoshi Sekiguchi,

© 2006 OpenGridForum

February 26, 2008

OGC-OGF Collaboration Workshop

Chris Higgins, EDINA/Edinburgh

Craig A. Lee, The Aerospace Corporation

Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST

2© 2006 OpenGridForum

Why OGC?

• Open Geospatial Consortium• www.opengeospatial.org

• ~80% of all data collected or produced by the human race ~80% of all data collected or produced by the human race is geospatially referencedis geospatially referenced

• “Helping the World to Communicate Geographically”• Any type of geospatial data• Anything that goes on a map

• A Few Current OGC Standards• Web Map Server (WMS)• Web Feature Server (WFS)• Web Coverage Server (WCS)• Catalog Service for Web (CSW)

• Commercialization of these standards• ESRI (www.esri.com)


OGC-OGF Common Objective

• Promote international standardization with the goal of providing distributed data processing capabilities for geospatial data users in a way that is:• TransparentTransparent -- the users do not have to be aware of the

exact data and computing resources they are using or the details about doing so,

• InteroperableInteroperable -- the data and computing resources can come from different sites, and

• ScalableScalable -- the same user model can service small computing tasks that can be done locally, as well as large computing tasks that require massive remote platforms.


Basic Terms of the MOU

• Renewable one-year periods• Automatically renewed unless one party provided

written notification three months in advance of non-renewal

• OGC and OGF exchange memberships for key collaboration members• Key collaboration members have full access to

both organization’s documents• OGC has members-only web site areas


Potential OGC-OGF Joint Projects 1

• Integrate OGC's Web Processing Service (WPS) with a range of "back-end" processing environments• WPS embodies a simple model• User sends data, retrieves results, or leaves on

server• Wide range of implementations possible

• Web 2.0, basic web services, local/national grid infrastructures



• Integration of WPS with workflow management tools• Multiple WPS calls may necessary to produce the

desired data products• Workloads managed by scripting languages,

compiled code, or by workflow management engines

• Swift• Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA)• Workflow engines

DAGMan, Pegasus, Kepler, Taverna, and Triana, just to name a few



• Integration of OGC Federated Catalogues and Data Repositories with grid data movement tools• HTTP as the transport is certainly possible• Byte-IO, GridFTP, others possible• Need for secure, third-party transfers?


The Real Goal of this Workshop

• The MOU items are a point of departure

• Get motivated people together

• Identify what people really need to do

• Get efforts snowballing between meetings

• Engage key stakeholders and potential adopters from the get-go


Session 1 Agenda: 9:30 - 11:00

• Welcome & Introduction• Craig Lee, OGF

• OGC Web Service Testbed, Phase 5 (OWS-5)• Raj Singh, OGC

• ESRI's Web Processing Service Concept and the Geospatial Processing Framework• Satish Sankaran, ESRI

• OGC Catalog Services, CS/W, ebRIM, & ProfilesMetadata & Metametadata• Miles Fidelman, Traverse Technologies

• WPS-G• Bastian Baranski, Universitaet Muenster


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• SDI-Grid and the deegree Framework: Grid-enabling Open Source OGC Webservices• Christian Kiehle, lat-lon

• Web Processing Service (WPS): grid-enabling spatial processing capabilities• Andreas Krueger, TU-Berlin

• Security and Scheduling inside grid environments• Christopher Kunz, Universitaet Hannover


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• GEO-SEE• Chris Higgins, EDINA, Edinburgh

• Coordinated Data Acquisition on Sensor Webs• Robert A. Morris, NASA Ames

• Discussion (remaining time)• Requirements• Emergent themes & practices• Future efforts• Critical Mass & Engagement

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