cwic futures

CWIC Development TeamYuanzheng Shao (yshao3@gmu.edu)Lingjun Kang (kljxmgm@gmail.com)Archie Warnock (warnock@awcubed.com)

What’s Next For CWIC?6-12 month timeframe Obviously, add new Data Partners and datasets What new capabilities and functionality would enhance

CWIC? Current Release

Clean up capabilities & auto-update from GCMD Test data connector for each dataset 3 instances (dev, test & prod) w/ criteria for migration

& notification to relevant parties Short-Term Development

Exception handling & status messages, handle timeouts Decision on how to handle unsupported search attributes

(ignore & insert comments? Throw exception?) Return full metadata record in raw format or additional

ISO/CSW elements Multi-term query (CSW) Revisit & implement nhWGISS Search Criteria (which

Data Partners can support it?) Partner-supported mapping file changes (web

interface?)

What’s Next For CWIC?

Longer-term development Result sorting (CSW) Custom result sets Spatial polygon search, additional

coordinate systems & projections Additional query protocols

OpenSearch Additional CSW profiles

User validation & authentication RSS & Atom Feeds

New datasets available Software changes & new features for client

developers