OWS-4 Compliance Testing (CITE)

The OGC Interoperability Program and the OGC Specification Program have achieved a great deal of momentum as a result of the multiple OGC web service specifications that have recently been published. Key consumers in the geospatial industry are modernizing their enterprises based on the applicability and interoperability of OGC web services. The major geospatial industry consumers require verifiable proof of compliance with OGC specifications in order to reach the desirable outcome of interoperability. Furthermore, as the OGC technology stack has matured, a group of interfaces has emerged that represents a baseline of technology needed to implement a full interoperable spatial data infrastructure.

Successful completion of the OWS-4 CITE thread will result in a suite of compliance tests for this baseline of interfaces, which include:

• WMS 1.3
• WFS 1.1
• Filter Encoding 1.1
• CSW 2.0
• WCS 1.0
• GML 3.1.1
• SLD 1.0
• Web Map Context 1.0

Also included in the requirements are reference implementations of these specifications. A reference implementation is an open source, fully functional implementation of a specification in reference to which other implementations can be evaluated. The OGC provides open source reference implementations to ensure maximum transparency of its specifications for both vendors and customers.