Assessment of OGC web processing services for REST principles

Carlos Granell, Laura Díaz, Alain Tamayo and Joaquín Huerta

International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, 2014, vol. 6, issue 4, 391-412

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 processing services; spatial information integration; spatial information modelling; REST; representational state transfer; RESTful applications; geospatial information infrastructures; GII; OGC web processing service; Open Geospatial Consortium; geospatial services. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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