New OGC standards conformance testing service in the pipeline

Social Change Online recently started development of an online compliance testing facility.
The service, to be called "Conform-IT", will allow software developers and application builders to check that their work fully conforms with the new global standards for the publishing of spatial information to the web.
Specifically, the service will exercise and report on the conformance of servers delivering web-based spatial information products via the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC)Ős Web Map Server (WMS) and Web Feature Server (WFS) Interfaces.
The service is expected to benefit application developers, information providers, and system integrators, all of whom have a stake in the development of robust, standards-compliant geospatial resources.
Organizations will pay a small fee for the service, where they can register their Web mapping component and subject it to a suite of conformance tests. Most of these tests will be automatic, with a diagnostics report being generated at the end.
This facility is partially funded by a grant from the Australian Federal Government.
Social Change Online of Sydney, Australia are active OGC members, and co-authors of several OGC specifications and candidate specifications, including WMS, GML and Gazetteer service. SCO's implementation of OGC interfaces in its software suite is driving many interoperable webmapping sites in Australia, most notably the New South Wales "Community Access to Natural Resource Information" program.
For more information, visit http://webmap.socialchange.net.au.

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