22 February 2012. The Open Geospatial Consortium (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 (http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-9).
The RFQ/CFP is available at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/86.
Responses are due by 5 pm EST on April 6, 2012.
A bidders� teleconference will be held on March 9, 2012. More information
will be available at the URL above.
The Point of Contact is Nadine Alameh: techdesk@opengeospatial.org.
The OWS-9 sponsors are:
– AGC (Army Geospatial Center, US Army Corps of Engineers)
– CREAF-GeoViQua-EC (CREAF is the European Center for Research in Ecology
and Forestry Applications)
– EUROCONTROL
– FAA (US Federal Aviation Authority)
– GeoConnections – Natural Resources Canada
– Lockheed Martin Corporation
– NASA (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
– NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
– USGS (US Geological Survey)
OWS-9 builds on the outcomes of prior OGC initiatives
(http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos) and is organized around the
following threads:
– Aviation: Develop and demonstrate the use of the Aeronautical Information
Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Information 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’s
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 Fa�ade, 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 RFQ/CFP includes details of these threads as well as details on
participation eligibility, selection process and kickoff workshop
information.
OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part of
the OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative
prototyping program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven
candidate standards into the OGC Specification Program, where they are
formalized for public release.
The OGC� is an international consortium of more than 440 companies,
government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating
in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.
OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web,
wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. Visit the OGC
website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.