Capabilities Document Service Profile

capabilities document service profile - The result of invoking the "Get Capabilities" operation on a service is a message containing a "capabilities document" describing the service. Provides a high-level description of a service instance and its provider. Includes: a human readable description of the service, a specification of the functionalities that are provided by the service and a set of functional attributes that provide additional information and requirements about the service.

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Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 03 June 2011 08:06:32, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary