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Granell-Canut, Carlos; Díaz-Sánchez, Laura; Tamayo-Fong, Alain; Huerta-Guijarro, Joaquín Assessment of OGC web processing services for REST principles Journal Article International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, 6 (4), pp. 391-412, 2014, ISSN: 1759-1163. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Geospatial information infrastructures, Geospatial processing services, OGC, REST, RESTful applications, Spatial information integration, Spatial information modelling @article{GranellCanut2014a, title = {Assessment of OGC web processing services for REST principles}, author = { Carlos Granell-Canut and Laura Díaz-Sánchez and Alain Tamayo-Fong and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/124443}, doi = {10.1504/IJDMMM.2014.066765}, issn = {1759-1163}, year = {2014}, date = {2014-01-01}, journal = {International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management}, volume = {6}, number = {4}, pages = {391-412}, publisher = {Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.}, abstract = {Recent distributed computing trends advocate the use of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) to alleviate the inherent complexity of the web services standards in building service-oriented web applications. In this paper we focus on the particular case of geospatial services interfaced by the OGC web processing service (WPS) specification in order to assess whether WPS-based geospatial services can be viewed from the architectural principles exposed in REST. Our concluding remarks suggest that the adoption of REST principles, to specially harness the built-in mechanisms of the HTTP application protocol, may be beneficial in scenarios where ad hoc composition of geoprocessing services are required, common for most non-expert users of geospatial information infrastructures.}, keywords = {Geospatial information infrastructures, Geospatial processing services, OGC, REST, RESTful applications, Spatial information integration, Spatial information modelling}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {article} } Recent distributed computing trends advocate the use of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) to alleviate the inherent complexity of the web services standards in building service-oriented web applications. In this paper we focus on the particular case of geospatial services interfaced by the OGC web processing service (WPS) specification in order to assess whether WPS-based geospatial services can be viewed from the architectural principles exposed in REST. Our concluding remarks suggest that the adoption of REST principles, to specially harness the built-in mechanisms of the HTTP application protocol, may be beneficial in scenarios where ad hoc composition of geoprocessing services are required, common for most non-expert users of geospatial information infrastructures. |
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Assessment of OGC web processing services for REST principles Journal Article International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, 6 (4), pp. 391-412, 2014, ISSN: 1759-1163. |