Lessons learned on implemenation of the OGC EDR API

Recently there has been many initiatives in the meteorological community and outside on implementing OGC API interfaces, especially OGC API EDR. Based on these efforts it seems that OGC API EDR will be a foundation technology in many initiatives and domains including WMO WIS2 (1), EUMETNET FEMDI (2) (aiming to provide high-value datasets required to the EU open data directive) and ICAO SWIM (3) services in the aviation domain.  This presentation will touch on how the challenges are adressed in context of the RODEO project between participants in the project. In the project it was noticed that the implementations of different insitutes complied with the standard but were in fact still not compatible as the output was different. This led to the need and discussion on how we would achieve more interoperability between the actual output content provided by the API's. It was clear that some kind of agreement was needed between the partners in the project. Work on this challenge has also been started in the OGC context as well to add support for so called profiles. Challenges, current status of this work and lessons learned during the development will be presented.

(1) WMO Information System 2.0: framework for WMO data sharing

(2) EUMETNET FEMDI: Federated European Meteorological Data Infrastructure. Unified access to European weather data.

(3) ICAO SWIM: System Wide Information Management concept consists of standards, infrastructure and governance enabling the management of ATM related information and its exchange between qualified parties via interoperable services (ICAO Doc.10039). This includes weather information.