The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has released this Call for Participation (CFP) to in order to solicit interest in participating in interoperability assessment exercises. In particular, this is an invitation to communities of use of USGS data. The overall goal is to improve the user’s experience with USGS data services. The exercise will help evaluate the current tools, service instances, standard services, and best practices. The recommendations derived from the exercises serve users and developers: They will guide the developers of tools and standards to better serve the needs for the communities of use, whereas the communities of use learn about additional tools and approaches to optimize their workflows.
Participants will engage in a two-hour virtual session to show how they use their tools and access USGS services to solve a problem. Sessions will be held in June. You will be contacted during the first week of June to schedule the best time to do the exercise.
More information:
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/usgsia