OGC Announces Kick Off of OGC Web Services Initiative
jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, October 23, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) (Wayland, MA) announced that Phase 1 of its OGC Web Services Initiative (OWS-1) has begun.The OWS-1 initiative mission is the definition and specification of interfaces that support interoperability among geospatially enabled web services.Once a Web service is deployed, other applications and other Web services can discover and invoke the deployed service.The current OWS-1 Thread Set is focusing on: – Common Architecture: OGC Services Model, OGC Registry Services, and Sensor Model Language.Organizations interested in learning more about the OGC Web Services Initiative should contact Mr. Jeff Harrison, Director of OGC Interoperability Programs, (703) 491-9543,.