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Sensor Web Enablement The SWE Community hosted the 52°North SWE Partner Workshop 2009 at 52N "headquarters" this week. Several 52N presentations informed our partners about past, present and future projects in which the community was, is and will be involved. Partners also presented their current activities.This informative setting also lead to fruitful discussions concerning future work items, project ideas and roadmap items!
Geoprocessing The Geoprocessing Community provides yet another video! This video demonstrates the use of SQL scripts in transactional WPS servers. Many thanks to Víctor González, second place winner of the 52°North Student Innovation Prize for Geoinformatics 2009! He created this scenario as a proof of concept, showing the reusability and interoperability of a geoprocessing script. A geoprocessing script for determining which towns have a hospital within a 10 k radius was created with the GearScape editor. The script was then included in an instance of the 52ºNorth WPS-T server. Since the script can be accessed from any existing client, such as the GearScape client or the uDig client, any user with Internet access can execute it without installing GearScape.
Security GeoRM There is a lot to report from the Security and GeoRM community today! Community Leader Jan Drewnak reports that the WPS interceptor is ready to be released. The current WSS configuration and default policies have been updated to "protect" a publically available WPS. However, the WPS' asynchronous interface is not yet protected - this might be a challenging task. check out references: Work continues on stabilizing the protection (via HTTP Basic Athentication) of the Processing Community's uDig WPS Plugin. In order to work on a licensing workflow, two technical approaches to implementing a simple click-through licensing use case, based on recent and abandoned 52n components, have been evaluated. The goal is to provide a mechanism that prompts users to select and accept a license before the user is able to request a service. The service's capabilities offered to the user are governed by the selected license. Implementation has started. New/recovered components include the "LicenseBroker" (web-based UI to conclude licenses) and the "LicenseManager" (web service to store and retrieve licenses).
Nov. 13, 2009 |
