Spatial Information Services Stack

SISS

The SISS project will develop some of the component software components, services and functional capabilities needed to realise a spatial information data commons within Australia, conforming to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and ISO standards.

The spatial data infrastructures being developed by NCRIS capability areas such as AuScope and IMOS, as well as many other spatial data providers including the CSIRO Water Resources Observation Network, SEE Grid and the Western Australian Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP), will be able to interoperate, using common software and services, and will establish a spatial information data commons that will be utlilized by a variety of research communities.

SISS will include complete applications or services comprising client interface (e.g. web portal or web service interface), middleware and data repository components. AuScope will use SISS to deploy

• an OCG Catalog Service providing a web service interface to a registry with multiple registers to support both discovery of data and governance of standards associated with the spatial data commons (e.g. interoperability profiles, controlled vocabularies, data standards)
• a spatial information discovery portal
• SISS-based access to a number of spatial data repositories including GPS network station and observation logs, Seismic and Hyperspectral transects, Geological models, maps, and the Virtual drill core library.

Available documents include:

• SISS proforma - agreed by NeAT (February 208)

• SISS business plan summary - reviewed by AeRIC (May 2008)

• SISS project plan - implemented by ARCS, ANDS and AuScope