Authors
Mathew Wyatt, Ryan Fraser, and Robert Woodcock (CSIRO)
Abstract
The Spatial Information Services Stack (SISS) is eResearch infrastructure being developed by AuScope Grid to service the Australian geoscience community. The SISS implementation has been designed to allow easy publishing and discovery of complex geoscience information across Australia using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards. By deploying the SISS at their institutions, data providers, state surveys and academia provide a common interface to their information. This removes the need for individual institutions to develop customised data portals for their specific data formats and database schemas, and in particular allows a single client to access data from multiple providers. Once the OGC web services are established, clients of the data providers are able to use an application of choice, or build a customised application to suite their workflow. This represents a power shift from the data provider, into the hands of the client.