Newsline from EDINA
December 2006: Volume 11, Issue 4
EDINA has recently been awarded funding for two JISC projects: “Secure Access to Geospatial Services” (SEE-GEO) and “Grid Enabling EDINA Services” (GEESE). The underlying theme of this work is to link together work undertaken by the Grid, Shibboleth and Geographic Information communities to allow users access to national datacentre geospatial data via the National Grid Service (NGS).
SEE-GEO will demonstrate the use of Shibboleth to access Geospatial web services securely using open interoperability standards running on the NGS. The project will run from October 2006 to 31 May 2008.
GEESE will investigate issues surrounding access to EDINA services on the NGS. GEESE builds on existing investment in UK e-infrastructure and aims to take a significant step towards making national datacentre data available on the NGS using Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI). The project will run from October 2006 to October 2007.
GEESE is strongly related to the EDINA-led SEE-GEO project and the MIMAS GEMS (Grid Enabling MIMAS Services) project. What distinguishes GEESE from SEE-GEO is the emphasis on EDINA’s bibliographic and multimedia services as well as the geospatial services. The intention is that the exemplar applications will be developed in liaison with MIMAS and complement the work being done under GEMS and SEE-GEO.