Hi Ben,
I wish to be a co-author.
Stefano Nativi
University of Florence and Italian National Research Council
C.da S.Loja - Zona Industriale, Tito Scalo 85050 ITALY
tel. 0574 602532
email nativi@xxxxxxxxxxx
AGU number: 10580856
---Stefano
Hi,
I'm planning to submit an abstract for a presentation at the Fall
AGU for session "IN08: Standards-Based Interoperability Among Tools
and Data Services in the Earth Sciences." I'd be pleased to have
additional collaborators from the THREDDS and GALEON teams listed
as co-authors, so, if you wish to be a co-author, please send me
your full name, institutional affiliation with address, phone number
and email address, and your AGU number if you are a member. Also
let me know if you are willing to serve as a session chair.
I've appended a draft abstract below, so please let me know if you
have any change suggestions. These abstracts are due on the 7th so
I'll need your information before Wednesday. Apologies for the short notice.
-- Ben
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GALEON Phase 2 tests gateways between formal standard interfaces and
existing community standard client/server implementations
Ben Domenico, ...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Coverage Service (WCS)
revision 1.1 specification includes many modifications that are
important to the communities working with existing services and
clients based on netCDF (network Common Data Form), THREDDS THematic
Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services), OPeNDAP
Open-source Project for Network Data Access Protocol), and ADDE
(Abstract Data Distribution Envrionment) technologies. Chief among
the WCS changes is the requirement that WCS binary encoding formats
have documented application profiles. NetCDF will be among the
first WCS binary encoding format profiles. In addition, WCS 1.1
enables multiple fields in a coverage, 3 spatial dimensions, 2 time
dimensions (e.g., the time a forecast was run and the forecast times
within the run), relative time ( e.g., the latest image),
non-spatial dimension (e.g., pressure or density), irregular grids.
In Phase 2 of the GALEON (Geo-interface for Land, Environment,
Earth, Ocean NetCDF) Interoperability experiment, the participants will
1. Implement and test clients and servers that conform to the new
WCS 1.1 spec and experiment with them on a wide range of real-world datasets.
2. Test the OGC CS-W (Catalog Services for the Web) as a means for
accessing lists of datasets available on WCS servers.
as well as WCS. As an illustration of the challenge, the top level
3. Evaluate various OGC GML (Geography Markup Language) dialects as
a means for representing the information in netCDF datasets. This
will include: ncML-GML (netCDF Markup Language-GML), CSML (Climate
Sciences Modeling Language), and GMLJP2 (GML for JPEG 2000).
Many of the datasets and catalogs for these experiements will be
from existing netCDF, THREDDS, OPeNDAP, and ADDE servers.
