Foreword
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Terms and definitions
5 Abbreviated terms
6 Overview of geographic services architecture
6.1 Purpose and justification
6.2 Interoperability reference model based on ISO RM-ODP
6.3 Service abstraction
6.4 Interoperability
6.5 Use of other geographic information standards in
service specifications
6.6 Architecture patterns
7 Computational viewpoint: a basis for service chaining
7.1 Component and service interoperability and the
computational viewpoint
7.2 Services, interfaces and operations
7.3 Service chaining
7.4 Service metadata
7.5 Service instance of unknown type
7.6 Simple service architecture
8 Information viewpoint: a basis for semantic
interoperability
8.1 Information model interoperability and the
information viewpoint
8.2 Extended open systems environment for geographic
services
8.3 Geographic services taxonomy
8.4 ISO 19100 series of International Standards in
geographic service taxonomy
8.5 Geographic service chaining validity
8.6 Services organizer folder (SOF)
9 Engineering viewpoint - A basis for distribution
9.1 Distribution transparencies and the engineering viewpoint
9.2 Distributing components using a multi-tier architecture
model
10 Technology viewpoint - A basis for cross platform
interoperability
10.1 Infrastructure interoperability and the technology
viewpoint
10.2 Need for multiple platform-specific specifications
10.3 Conformance between platform-neutral and
platform-specific service specifications
10.4 From platform-neutral to platform-specific
specifications
Annex A (normative) Conformance
Annex B (informative) Example user scenarios
Annex C (normative) Data dictionary for geographic service
metadata
Annex D (informative) Mapping to distributed computing platforms
Bibliography