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WPS at FOSSGIS 2014

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Two weeks ago at this year’s FOSSGIS conference, I presented some news regarding the 52°North WPS project and also about the OGC WPS standard.

News from the WPS project

I talked about the move to GitHub and the new project procedures that accompany this move.

I also presented the lightweight JavaScript WPS client that was developed in the GeoViQua project.
You can find more information about it here: wps-js.

I showed the new admin application that was developed during last year’s Google Summer of Code.
This was presented in several blog posts before and will hopefully be included in a future WPS release.

The next topic was the current developments in OGC Testbed (OWS) 10, namely the RDF (Resource Description Framework) provenance encoding that was developed within the project. To learn about the basics of provenance in our context, you can have a look in this OGC Public Engineering Report(ER). The ER sums up the developments of the previous testbed, where we implemented XML-based provenance information as addidtional WPS output.

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AGILE Conference Workshop: “Geoprocessing on the Web” – CfP

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Today the Web serves as a universal information and communication infrastructure. We’re able to share data, documents, maps and apps based on web technologies. The efficient use of geoprocessing functionality for data analysis and presentation on the Web is an active topic in GIS science and application. The massive rise in available spatial data from mapping communities, sensor operators and public bodies has also spurred the demand by lay users and experts for readily available analysis and data processing tools. While Desktop and Workstation GIS are still widely used, there is also a trend towards sharing and reusing data processing and analysis workflows on the Web.more >

52°North software on OSGeo Live 7.0

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OSGeo-Live 7.0 has been released! For this release, geospatial applications have been updated to their latest stable release.  OSGeo-Live is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB flash drive and Virtual Machine based upon Ubuntu Linux (version 12.04 LTS). OSGeo-Live is pre-configured with a wide variety of robust open source geospatial software. All applications can be trialled without installing anything on your computer, simply by booting the computer from a DVD or USB drive, or running in a Virtual Machine environment. Each featured package is accompanied by both a publication quality one page descriptive summary and a short tutorial on how to get started using it. more >

52° North WPS Configuration Management Reloaded

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It has been almost five weeks since work started on the 52° North Web Processing Service (WPS) web admin project. So far, the work has focused entirely on the back-end where we aim to create a new and more robust configuration manager. The project currently uses an XML approach in which configurations are stored in an XML file, loaded and read manually, module by module and property by property. The WPS has three main types of configuration modules: Processes, Generators, and Parsers. To load the generators, for example, you first have to parse the XML file, then get the generators list and then read properties and formats one by one. Furthermore, the forms must be created manually in the interface for each module in order to create a configuration module.more >