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Table 9 Extract of the Components Registered in GEOSS by September 9th 2009
The following table is a list of services catalogued in the GEOSS Registry. The list was exported on September 09th 2009.
1. Water Survey of Canada WMS Service
Details
2.
VASDI greenland wms_n_baggrund service Details
TBC with list of other services
Table 10 Extract of the Services Registered in GEOSS by September 9th 2009
9.2.5.4 Standardisation Process
During service registration, service providers enter references to interoperability arrangements adopted by their contributed services and components. Interoperability arrangements can include international standards such as those of
the OGC, IEEE or W3C; but may also be special arrangements based on application-specific business rules. If the standard is not already a registered specification, it is assessed by the Standards and Interoperability Forum SIF
then registered. The main purpose of the SIF is to ensure that GEOSS components can interoperate through one of the registered standards or other interoperability arrangements. The SIF facilitated interoperability through technical
analysis, advocacy, education and the provision of impartial advice on issues regarding standardisation and interoperability within GEOSS. The following figure illustrates the role of the SIF.
Figure 5 SIF Role
All registered standards are entered in the Standards and Interoperability Registry. The architectural role of the Standards and Interoperability Registry is depicted in the GEOSS Common Infrastructure described in the GEOSS
Engineering Viewpoint sub-section of this chapter. The SIF promotes to form Regional Teams to have true global representation in supporting GEOSS interoperability. A
SIF European Team was promoted see http:www.thegigasforum.eusif . In this framework, the purpose of having a European Regional Team is to increase efficiency in carrying out the work of the SIF, addressing issues such as:
bring local knowledge and reach out multi-disciplinary and regional science Communities;
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provide knowledge and experts about regional standard and interoperability arrangements; support the SIF to complete the tasks submitted by Communities.
The SIF European Regional team will identify subject matter experts representing each or most of the Societal Benefit Areas of GEOSS in
Europe. facilitate the registration of European standards and interoperability best practices e.g. special
arrangements. be prepared to review standards and special arrangements submitted for entry into the standards registry.
help reach out to scientific Communities in Europe, as far as GEOSS is concerned. URL for accessing the present GEOSS deployed services is http:geossregistries.info
