U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey USGS Interoperability Assessment Initiative Glenn Guempel February

Motivation  USGS servers get hundreds of thousands of hits per day  Are those services compliant with the relevant standards?  Are they stood up as they should?  Can we improve the way the data is being served?  The data is being used by a range of communities (federal, state, county, etc., including our priority communities of use- water, geologic mapping, natural resources conservation, hazards.) for a variety of purposes (science, mapping, etc.)  Are the servers able to efficiently support the requirements/use cases of these user communities?

OGC Process I have not failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. Thomas Edison

USGS Interoperability Assessment  Goal: Assess if the OGC standards as implemented in USGS servers are meeting users requirements  Time Frame: March – September 2013  Steps (5) (a partnership between USGS and OGC) 1. Gathering a list of services to be included in the assessment _ USGS  services: WMS, WFS, WCS 2. Running the relevant compliance tests against the services and feeding back the results to the service providers- OGC  Deliverable: Report on compliance testing results

USGS Interoperability Assessment  Steps (5) Continued 3. Calling for user community representatives to participate in the assessment by providing typical use cases involving the services identified in step 1, providing information on the tools they use to access the services and process the data, and volunteering to be part of a usability testing exercise - USGS 4. Usability testing exercise with selected community representatives: working directly (in person or virtually) with the representatives on their use cases and capturing the outcomes (success stories, limitations, suggestions for improvement/optimization) – OGC and USGS Deliverable: Report on usability testing results and recommendations for enhancements (e.g. profile of services, tweaks for compliance/interoperability, etc.) 5. Implementing and testing the recommendations more widely in OGC’s Open Web Services-10 test bed. (Kicks off in September)

Invitation  Call for services to be included in the assessment  Call for community user representatives – Be a part of the core user group that will do the assessment and influence the implementation of standards in USGS services and community tools  Contact Information:  Glenn Guempel  Rob Dollison

Back up slides

QA Acquire Data Update Nat. Databases Metadata ScienceBase cloud User B Download Framework Generate Staged products User A Service Enabled Client WFS WMS WFS-T WCS

Interoperability Assessment USGS services User community Vender community ESRI Intergraph Carbon Projects Geology USGS Science USGS Liaisons COU’s Names National Map Viewer Hydro Atlas Other Tools Geospatial Platform WFS, WCS, WMS, Others? REST Services, Catalogs Hazards FGDC Members