Abbreviated terms Introduction OWS-9 Reference Architecture Profile (RAP) Advisor Engineering Report

4 Copyright © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium. 4 Conventions

4.1 Abbreviated terms

CDR Content Discovery and Retrieval GUI Graphical User Interface HCI Human Computer Interactions ICDoD Intelligence CommunityDepartment of Defense KB Knowledge Base KM Knowledge Management NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ORM OGC Reference Model OWS-9 OGC Web Services Testbed, Phase 9 RAP Reference Architecture Profile Copyright © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium. 5 5 RAP Advisor overview The RAP Advisor was developed in the OGC Web Services Testbed, Phase 9 OWS-9 with NGA sponsorship. During OWS-9, key concepts of the RAP Advisor were confirmed through prototyping. Future development is required to complete the functions and content of the Advisor. The overall objectives in developing the prototype are to: ฀ Update the OGC Reference Model ORM o Addupdate based on new standards, and o Enable HTML‐based web access to the document paragraph by paragraph ฀ Web‐enable the ORM and build a GUI o Such that a community of interest could derive and build a profile of suitable OGC standards to meet their specific needs. o Provide a knowledge base that would identify when or what standards are required based on a users requirements ฀ Evaluate the ORM against the Intelligence Community ICDepartment of Defense DoD Content Discovery and Retrieval CDR Reference Architecture. The Advisor prototype is designed as an OGC Web interface and based on three different discovery methods, users can select relevant OGC standards that will support their system applications. After a profile of OGC standards are selected, users can create a summary report that lists and describes their selected standards. 6 Conceptual Design

6.1 Introduction

The Reference Architecture Profile RAP Advisor was developed to be a web based application that recommends OGC Standards and ORM Sections that are relevant to a system development; such that a community of interest could derive and build a profile of suitable OGC standards to meet their specific needs. The RAP Advisor was developed to interact with users through a web interface to gain understanding of the scope of the system development. Based on the users input on scope, the RAP Advisor will produce a list of relevant OGC Standards and ORM Sections.

6.2 Requirements