SOS Encodings

The exchangeable encodings mechanism for the 52°North Sensor Observation Service was originally implemented in a Google Summer of Code Project, see ExchangeableEncodingPlugin. This page lists all available encodings, how you can use them, and who developed them.

Implemented Encodings

WaterML

Code: TBD

Developer: Alexander Kmoch

Carsten Hollmann is adjusting the 3.5 SOS WaterML2.0 encoder for the 4.0.0 SOS architecture.

CSV

Code: TBS

Developer: Alexander Kmoch

Further Suggestions for Encodings

• Fast Infoset: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/xml/fastinfoset/
• IOOS TSV: http://www.ioos.gov/library/ioos_conventions_for_tsv_encoding_v100c.pdf
• IOOS CSV: http://www.ioos.gov/library/ioos_conventions_for_csv_encoding_v100c.pdf (the demo CSV encoder very basic, but still quite close to the IOOS-CSV scheme)
• IOOS DIF XML: http://www.ioos.gov/gml/schema.html
• IOOS KML with JSON: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/redirout.cgi?url=http://code.google.com/p/xenia/wiki/ObsJSON
• GeoJSON: http://www.geojson.org/, potentially close to O&M, also see here for encoding by SISTO (Hochschule Bochum, Benno Schmidt - ask for code)
• MessagePack: http://msgpack.org/ and http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification
  • This could be a great effort if we also provide the neccessary client packages in several languages > hard-typed interfaces

Metadata

• Topic created by: DanielNuest
• Topic created on: 2012-11-14