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Hi, Some of you may recall that our OGC GALEON Interoperability Experiment was scheduled to end this month. However, we are in the middle of some very productive developments in GALEON -- many of which we actually did not anticipate at the beginning of the experiment, for example: - New client and server (air quality datasets) at Washington U in St. Louis - Effort now underway on RASDAMAN relational database server at International U of Bremen - Documentation for netCDF as WCS binary encoding just started at Unidata & U of Florence - Work on ncML-GML for 5D datasets at U of Florence/IMAA - Further development of CSML dialect of GML underway at NERC - Discussions underway between Boulder office of IDL and Unidata re GALEON - ESRI is beta testing direct access to netCDF files - In general, implementation and client/server testing will benefit from more time Besides being unwise to end the experiment with all these valuable projects in the works, it would simply be impossible to create the required final reports by the end of the month. The required documents are: - Final Interoperability Program Reports (IPRs) posted to OGC Pending Documents list - Press release summarizing the results of the IE crafted by the Team with support from the OGC Communications Team. In terms of IPRs, my concept of the ideal situation would be for each team that has experimented with a WCS client or server to provide a report on their experiences. Such reports could have two parts, one would be a general description of what works and what doesn't between client/server pairs. The second component of the report would relate to OGC specifications. Are changes, extensions, or profiles of the specifications needed. The latter aspect of the reports would be only available to OGC members, but the former would be made available to the general public. Please keep these reports in mind and you continue to conduct your experiments. In particular, we need to carefully consider change requests for WCS. If I am not mistaken, Peter Baumann has already submitted WCS change requests -- some of them based on GALEON experiences. My suggestion is that we set a target of February 6 to have drafts of the IPRs. That will give us a month before the March 6 technical committee meeting to edit the documents into final form. A view to the future: an OGC GALEON Network It is clear to me that, considering all the exciting work that the GALEON participant have spawned, there will be much left to be done after the March meeting. When I discussed this with George Percivall, he suggested we consider initiating a "GALEON Network" as an element of the OGC Networks. OGC Networks are online infrastructures of Internet-accessible, configuration-controlled components that implement OpenGIS specifications. OGC Networks support persistent demonstrations and research regarding geospatial interoperability. An OGC network can include non-OGC members. This sounds like a great idea to me. I'd be willing to serve as the network manager if others think that would be appropriate and I'll work with George to get this in place by the March meeting where we can make a final decision. GALEON Documents from the November Tech. Committee meeting On the OGC web portal, there's a folder for presentations and documents from the previous meeting. To find it, log into the portal and select the GALEON IE from the "project quick selector" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. http://portal.opengeospatial.org/index.php?m=projects should get you a list of the active projects once you login. Best wishes for a happy holiday season (or whatever you call the next couple weeks.) -- Ben
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