Service Metadata

service metadata - The most basic operation all OGC services must provide is the ability to describe themselves. This "Get Capabilities" operation, yielding a capabilities document, is common to all OWS1 services. An XML vocabulary comprised of several parts for describing different aspects of a service. The first unit describes the service interface in sufficient detail so that an automated process can read the description and invoke an operation that the service advertises. A second unit describes the data content of the service (or the data it operates on) in a way that enables service requestors to dynamically compose requests for service.

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Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 05 July 2011 10:09:37, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary