FYI: OWS-3 - OGC Web Services, Emergency response, and use of OASIS standards.

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The OGC has just initiated the OGC Web Services 3.0 Test Bed initiative. 
Building on previous work in other OGC initiatives and technical working groups, 
OWS-3 participants will work collaboratively to extend the OGC baseline to 
enable an interoperable, multi-source decision support environment. I thought 
that this might be of interest as one of the "Threads" of the test bed is for 
Decision Support. This Thread (business process) is what occurs After a CAP 
message is received :-) It is of interest because this the DSS effort will use a 
variety of OASIS standards, including BPEL and ebRIM. Notice thge demonstration 
scenario. The demonstration scenario needs to be flushed out still but will 
include an urban threat as well as a rural wild fire.

The Geo-Decision Support Services subtask will extend the DSS and Information 
Interoperability work done in OWS-2. One issue facing DSS systems is the ability 
to exchange and access geographic information within and across information 
communities (Information communities are groups that share common geographic 
terms and common spatial feature definitions). To address this issue, the GeoDSS 
subtask will leverage the Information Interoperability work from OWS-2 to 
explore ways to tailor geographic information for different information 
communities. The GeoDSS subtask will also build on the OWS-2 service 
chaining work to explore (in cooperation with the Sensor Web subtask) the 
integration and processing of geographic and sensor data to support an emergency 
response scenario. In addition, GeoDSS will develop new capabilities 
including a geoVideo service, XML schemas for moving objects and a portrayal 
service for feature data. Finally, GeoDSS will explore extensions/enhancements 
to the underlying OGC services to address a greater extent of emergency response 
scenarios. 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification 
Program
OGC

 

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