JISC

This circular invites proposals from HE institutions funded via the UK funding bodies, FE institutions funded directly by HEFCEand by FE institutions in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Total funding of up to £210,000 is available over two years for projects in three areas:

Area A   Building prototypes of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services that exploit WS-Security and other appropriate grid based security mechanisms. An important requirement of successful prototypes will be the ability for servers to provide secure access to resources at the dataset level, not just via secure wrapping of the service delivery.

Area B  Developing and extending workflow engines to support and orchestrate OGC services (including prototypical examples of WPS wrappers to other grid services) described using ISO19119 and understanding the relationship between ISO19119 and other grid service registries (to possibly include engineering ISO19119 compliant versions of existing grid service registries).

Area C  Attendance at and contributions to OGC technical meetings and reporting on developments to the e-science community via written reports and presentations.