Abstract
Abstract. As Web-related technologies have matured in recent years, an increasing amount of geospatial resources (e.g. geospatial services, workflows, and geospatial data) are available in the distributed Web environment. Consequently, effective and efficient sharing and management of geospatial resources on the Web are necessary for better utilizing these resources for education and scientific research. This matches the vision of Geoprocessing Web, which emphasizes the sharing and access of geoprocessing utilities from the perspectives of communication, collaboration, and participation. Previous work on GeoPW has provided a large number of geoprocessing services over the Web. In this paper, GeoPW goes further to offer a Web platform for sharing geospatial resources. The paper presents the design, implementation, and functions of the platform, which offers a user-friendly environment for publication, discovery, and communication of geospatial data, services, and workflows.
Highlights
With the advancement of Web technologies and geospatial information service, geospatial resources including geospatial data and services are increasingly rich and accessible in the distributed Web environment
Effective and efficient sharing and management of geospatial resources on the Web are necessary for better utilizing these resources for education and scientific research
When geospatial users are interested in using these geospatial resources, the limited accessibility of acquiring data and analysis workflows hampers their activities
Summary
With the advancement of Web technologies and geospatial information service, geospatial resources including geospatial data and services are increasingly rich and accessible in the distributed Web environment. Effective and efficient sharing and management of geospatial resources on the Web are necessary for better utilizing these resources for education and scientific research This matches the vision of Geoprocessing Web (Zhao et al, 2012), which emphasizes the share and access of geoprocessing utilities from the perspectives of communication, collaboration, and participation. Over the last few years, geospatial resources created enormous potential for education and scientific research They are distributed in the Web environment, each accessible through standard interfaces and protocols. The paper presents the design and implementation of the platform, which offers a userfriendly environment for publishing, discovering, and communicating on geospatial data, services, and workflows. It adopts RESTful (REST, 2013) style Web service for sharing geospatial resources.
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