Re: [galeon] WCS CF-netCDF profile document

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Jon,

WMS has been mandated for the view services and CSW for the discovery
service.  As for the download services that is still undecided as far as
I know, although the INSPIRE network services specification is available
(not sure if it is public yet). 
It is also worth mentioning that INSPIRE is a mandate on Member States
and not communities.  If a community has its own rules for data
exchange, INSPIRE will not mandate that they need to change.
Consideration however will have to be given to how that community
communicates to other communities; particularly in the case of
environmental reporting to the European Environment Agency etc.

Keiran




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Sent: 06 October 2008 08:58
To: Steve Hankin
Cc: Unidata GALEON; Peter Baumann
Subject: Re: [galeon] WCS CF-netCDF profile document

Hi Steve et al,

Just wanted to chime in here:


I'm afraid that this statement over-simplifies the situation.  Our
European colleagues ARE (emphatically) part of our community.  But
many of them feel that they are mandated to use only OGC-accepted solutions.


It's certainly true that there's a feeling amongst many
people that OGC=interoperability and therefore any
OGC-accepted solution is politically correct.  But I don't
think that WCS is yet mandated by INSPIRE (someone correct me
if I'm wrong) and it might never be.  The Draft Implementing
Rules mandate WMS1.3.0 for visualization, but otherwise the
guidelines are vaguer than this.

For example, a number of European projects have used OPeNDAP
extensively, and still others are adopting it.  (The main use
is still within oceanography, but it is seeing increasing use
in atmospheric science and the satellite data community.) There is no sign whatsoever (that I can discern) that 
suggests that Europe is shying away from OPeNDAP.

So we shouldn't necessarily assume that European partners
will definitely go down the WCS route, although I agree it's
likely if WCS can sort itself out into a workable
specification.  I hope that INSPIRE will wait for WCS to
settle and produce high-quality interoperable implementations
before mandating it.  (Maybe WCS will have to be an ISO
standard first?)

Perhaps someone with a better knowledge of INSPIRE than me
could clarify what the rules and expectations are here?

Cheers, Jon
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