Common Object Model Container Standards Working Group

9 March 2017: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) request comments on the draft charter for an OGC Common Object Model Container (COMC) Standards Working Group (SWG).

The core philosophy behind the COMC SWG is that a user should be able to publish and retrieve data in the format most suitable for that user. Ultimately, the geospatial community should be able minimize concerns with different data encodings and specific server specifications, allowing a free flow of information between systems and users.

To achieve this, COMC SWG aims to define a container, built using the OGC OWS Context standard, that references content in an OGC Coverage Implementation Schema (CIS) data store and allow users to find content merely by querying the description of the container. Delivery of data to the end user would then occur using the most appropriate OGC web service for the data and user's needs.