CDI WEB SERVICES WORKING GROUP (WSWG) BRIEFING CDI Face-to-Face
August 10 th -13 th
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Sky Bristol Rob Dollison Jacque Fahsholtz Dave Ferderer Greg
Gunther Scott McEwen Jennifer Sieverling Chris Skinner Steve
Tessler Sandy Williamson Others???
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2010 WSWG Activities Web service training EGIS Brownbag Series
Geospatial Web Services 101 http://tinyurl.com/yzr97wr Web mapping
applications for science http://tinyurl.com/yzwhg32 ITEM 2010 Data
Integration Track Web service landscape survey FY 2010 Funding:
0.00$
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ITEM Data Integration Track Geospatial Web Services 101
Introducing Web Services for ArcGIS Desktop Users: David McCulloch
USGS Water Web Services: Present and Future: Mark D Hamill
Open-source technologies for geospatial web services: Peter N.
Schweitzer Web Mapping For Science SPARROW DSS tool: Nate Booth
Using ArcGIS Server to Generate Tile Overlays for Google Maps API
Web Mapping Applications: David MCCulloch Geoscience web
applications: Connecting services to interfaces effectively: Peter
N. Schweitzer
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Training Impressions Tremendous interest Standing room only:
ITEM and Brownbags Technical and collaborative Excellent for
community building Disconnect between USGS IT and USGS data
people
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Web Services Survey Mid December-January A Broad-brush overview
Not an inventory or registry Goals Foundation for web services
community Identify good stories Starting point for (potential)
future inventory May help guide best practices Develop web service
rules Steer bureau-wide education and support Voluntary survey to
describe the landscape of web services within the USGS
Results 30 Respondents 131 web service collections totaling
600+ individual services 31 collections (90 services) not
registered with data.gov, GOS, etc.. Types Geospatial (544 out of
600 services) Geoprocessing (Elevation Slope Aspect) Geocoders A
couple of tabular services
https://my.usgs.gov/CDIWiki/wiki/Web%20Services%20Survey%20List
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Platforms
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Specs
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Survey Shortfalls Not an inventory Not directly usable for
discovery Not comprehensive Statistics may mislead us What is a web
service? Websites, applications, etc Wikified results Good for
humans, not so much for automation Manual maintenance required
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Whats Next
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Best Practices Information Sharing Collaboration Sharing
Stories Who Inventories Standards WMS WFS ArcGIS (Thats a lothow do
we proceed?)
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Collaboration/Sharing/Community We want you!!! (broader
involvement) Story telling/sharing before each meeting Peer support
Continue leveraging CDI Wiki ArcGIS developers My USGS Community
https://my.usgs.gov/ags_developersWiki/
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Continue Enterprise-GIS sponsored brown bags Alphabet soup
documentation Training and Education
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Identify and Document Best Practices Web services How to setup
services for Mapping Applications Interoperability OGC (WMS, WFS
etc) getCapabilities requirements ArcGIS REST Best practices for
documenting (metadata) services FGDC, Services Directory,
getCapabilities CDI metadata community
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General Issues and Questions Pragmatism/Realism We have day
jobs (geospatial) blinders Integrated discussions with other groups
Documenting web services = WSWG + MWG Consider lessons
learned/remaining questions from DI Development Project WSWG
Directions Need the community (you) to help guide