Hi,
In this morning's Coverages Working Group session at the OGC Technical
Committee meetings, several topics of interest to GALEON came up. Dominic Lowe
was not able to attend these meetings, so I gave a presentation on his WCS
client addition to the OWSLib python library and the way it's been used to give
several of the GALEON WCS server sites a bit of light exercise. I put the
presentation onto the GALEON wiki at:
http://galeon-wcs.jot.com/WikiHome/Other%20GALEON-related%20Presentations/Exercising_WCS_with_Python_ppt___122161164045030_523301361773225?jot.downloadName=Exercising+WCS+with+Python.ppt&theme=none
Second, Charles Roswell noted that the ISO 19123 Coverage specification (which
is also an OGC spec) is up for revision if enough people and organizations
think it needs revision and are willing to work on it. Note this is the ISO
Coverage spec not the OGC WCS spec. 19123 is a very abstract spec that
describes the general data model for coverages.
Finally, there is a movement to have a joint session at the next OGC TC meeting
that would focus on a discussion of a use case that involves collections of
point/station data and other non-gridded datasets. The idea would be to try to
figure out how WCS, WFS, and the Sensor Web Enablement Sensor Observation
Service can/should be used for serving this sort of data. As I mentioned at
the coverages meeting this morning, this seems particularly germane to GALEON
and to some of the topics I believe the GO-ESSP group is addressing for netCDF
and CF conventions this week at their meeting in Seattle.
I would very much like to jump on this opportunity to have a free wheeling
discussion on the topic at the next OGC TC meeting the first week in December.
It's time we come up with a strategy for dealing with the many formal and
community standards that touch on these non-gridded data collections that are
such an important part of the GALEON community data systems. Please let me
know if you are interested in pursuing this topic -- especially if you'll be
attending the December OGC TC meeting and would be willing to participate in
such a special session. I plan to begin setting up the logistics during the
current meetings, so get back to me soon if you have suggestions for how to go
about this.
-- Ben