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firstname: Liping

lastname: Di

affiliation: Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University

country: USA

papertitle: Geospatial Interoperability Standards and Protocols for Supporting International Exchange of IPY Data

abstract: The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008 is a large international and interdisciplinary effort to understand the behavior of Earth's polar regions and their role in the broader Earth System, including the oceans, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and land surface. Scientists from organizations around the world will work collaboratively on various IPY themes. These scientists are not only the data producers but also the data users. In order to ensure the successful of IPY, the International Joint Committee on IPY has endorsed a policy of free and unrestricted data exchange. The IPY Framework states that "The overarching objective of IPY 2007-2008 data management is to ensure the security, accessibility and free exchange of relevant data that both support current research and leave a lasting legacy." It is a tremendous challenge to reach the IPY data management objective with data generated and consumed by scientists around the world. In order to facilitate the exchange and sharing of IPY data, interoperability standards and protocols have to be established.

Geospatial data are those describing event and/or phenomena located on Earth.  Most of IPY data are geospatial data. In the past several years, the international geospatial data community has worked together to develop a set of geospatial interoperability standards and protocols with representative ones from International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Those standards and protocols are potentially useful for IPY to reach its data management objectives. The question is where to apply the standards, which standards to use, and how to use the standards in order to obtain the best benefits of standardization and to reach IPY data management objective effectively. This paper first introduces the ISO and OGC geospatial standards and protocols and discusses which areas of IPY data management that geospatial interoperability standards and protocols should be applied. The paper then proposes the candidate ISO and OGC standards/protocols for IPY to adopt, with metadata and data interoperability as the priority.  Finally, the paper discusses the need for IPY community profiles for those international standards and the procedure to make such profiles.


keywords: IPY, Interoperability, Standards, Protocols

typedname: Liping Di

date: 4/17/2006

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