GEESE (Grid Enabling EDINA SErvices)
Introduction
GEESE will investigate issues surrounding access to EDINA national datacentre hosted data on the National Grid Service (NGS).
Aims and Objectives
The purpose of Grid Enabling EDINA SErvices is to take a significant step towards providing Grid enabled access to EDINA national datacentre hosted services running on the National Grid Service (NGS).
The specific objectives are to:
- Make Geospatial data accessible using core Grid middleware by integrating the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) standard interface into OGSA-DAI;
- Create a Z39.50/SRU/W to OGSA-DAI bridge.
Project Methodology
GEESE builds on existing investment in UK e-infrastructure and aims to take a significant step towards making national datacentre data available on the NGS using OGSA-DAI.
The project is strongly related to the EDINA led SEE-GEO project and the MIMAS GEMS (Grid Enabling MIMAS Services) project. What distinguishes GEESE from SEE-GEO is the emphasis on EDINAs bibliographic and multimedia services as well as well as the geospatial services. The intention is that the exemplar applications will be developed in liaison with MIMAS and complement the work being done under GEMS and SEE-GEO.
Implications / Deliverables / Stakeholders
The outcome of GEESE should be a clear indication of the steps necessary to put up production services making EDINA data accessible on the NGS.
Making national Datacentre data available on the NGS should increase the number of users and assist realisation of some of the potential of Grid technology. The MasterMap dataset EDINA intends using for the WFS demonstrator is the Ordnance Surveys flagship product. The wider Grid and Geographic Information communities both stand to benefit from having the widely used open interoperability WFS standard integrated into core Grid middleware.