Services and Interfaces Technical Panel - SITP

The Services and Interfaces Technical Panel addresses the technical issues related to information services and interfaces. SITP is concerned with the patterns of interactions between services that are part of a larger system. A number of services have been identified by member nations as being of priority. An “information product catalogues and registry service” would make available the information that is open and contained in the current paper product catalogues of the various nations. The second priority service was the data access metadata for "on-line discovery "of digital data sets. A "Road Map" was initially developed to integrate all the requirements.
The responsibilities of the SITP are to:

• Develop standards and specifications for services and interfaces to geographic information.
• Review interoperability requirements to determine which services and interfaces are required to support interoperability and to establish projects to develop these services and interface specifications.
• Ensure that the developed standards satisfy the interoperability requirements and that they are compatible with international standards and industrial implementation specifications.

The Services and Interfaces Technical Panel works externally with the services standardization efforts in ISO TC/211 and the Open Geospatial Consortium.

The SITP is chaired by the GBR (Ministry of Defence, ICG )

SITP Projects

The active SITP Projects are:

S01 - Portrayal Service and Register
S03 - Request For Information Service
S04 - Service Architecture
S05 - Web Data Access Service Plan (pending)
S07 - Catalogue Service
S09 - Gazetteer Service
S11 - Change Management Service (pending)
S12 - Web Services Compliance Testing (pending)

The full list of DGIWG Technical Panel Projects identifies the status of all projects - active, completed, suspended or cancelled.