Geospatial Service-Oriented Architecture: Best Practices Workshop

Description: The workshop is designed to provide attendees with specific experiences in the use of SOA techniques and emerging cloud computing in the context of integrating online government Web services for geospatial applications. Topics will include background on SOA in the federal context, plans for a Federal Service Oriented Infrastructure “cloud,” and presentations by FGDC 2008 Cooperative Agreement Program funded activities and federal agencies sharing best practices and lessons learned from designing and deploying Web services.

Location: American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board Room, 1735 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20006-5292

Date: June 9, 2009 from 9:00am to 4:00pm

Who should attend: IT and geospatial practitioners interested in establishing enterprise geospatial Web services for multiple uses

Agenda:

Introductory Presentations

9:00 - Workshop Introduction, Doug Nebert, FGDC

9:10 - An introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the federal government context, Dave Mayo, Everware-CBDI

9:35 – Cloud Computing for Geospatial Applications, Patrick Stingley, BLM CTO

10:00 - Break

General Presentations

10:30 - Use of Cloud Computing for scalable geospatial data processing and access, Andrew Turner, GeoCommons (FortiusOne) Partner: U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee

11:15 - Cloud activities at Indiana University: Case studies in service hosting, storage, and computing, Marlon Pierce (CGL, IU), Neil Devadasan (Polis, IUPUI) Partner: USFWS National Wetland Inventory

12:00 – Lunch 13:00 – Role-based Access Control Framework for Geospatial Cloud Services, Jeff Harrison (CubeWerx USA), Joel Schlagel (USACE) Partner: USACE

13:45 – SOA-based Wetlands Jurisdictional Determination Tools, John Davidson (ImageMatters) Partners: EPA, USACE, USFWS

14:30 – Break

15:00 - Service Oriented Architecture of the Indiana Flood GRID. Neil Devadasan (Polis, IUPUI), Marlon Pierce (CGL, IU) Partners: US Geological Survey, National Weather Service, City of Indianapolis, Silver Jackets, Indianapolis Museum of ART, Indiana Department of Homeland Security, USACE, Indiana Department of Natural Resources

15:30 – Summary discussion, other agency experiences, and best practices round-table discussion

16:15 – Adjourn