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Change Request
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Assigned OGC
Document #:
10-115
Name:
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Edward Nash
Organization:
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Rostock University
Email:
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edward.nash@uni-rostock.de
Document
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Web Processing Service / 1.0.0
OGC Project
Document:
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05-007r7
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Title:
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Make clear the distinction between a Process Description, a WPS Application
Profile, a profile of the WPS Specification
Source:
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Edward Nash, Rostock University
Work item code:
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D (Editorial modification)
Reason for
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Currently the distinction between a WPS Process Description, a WPS Application Profile and a profile of the WPS spec. is not made
sufficiently clear: section 6.4 "WPS Profiles" starts by talking about "standardized profiles" and then moves into "Application Profiles".
Summary of
change:
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The following distinctions need to be made clear:
1. A WPS Profile is a specialisation of the WPS interface, e.g. making optional operations or parameters mandatory (or removing them altogether).
2. A WPS Application Profile is (in the WPS1.0 form) a standardised ProcessDescription which may be found through a registry using its assigned URN.
3. A ProcessDescription is (again, in the WPS1.0 form) a description of a process and its inputs/outputs. It may also indicate that it implements a particular WPS Application Profile.
It may be a good idea to choose a different term to "Application Profile", e.g. GML has "Application Schema", in order to make misunderstandings less likely.
Consequences if
not approved:
Confusion as to what a "WPS Profile" and a "WPS Application Profile"
Clauses affected:
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Mainly 6.4 "WPS Profiles", probably also others.
