Introduction¶
The CEDA OGC Web Services framework (COWS) is a Python software framework developed at the Centre of Environmental Data Archival for implementing Open Geospacial Consortium web service standards.
COWS emphasises rapid service development by providing a lightweight layer of OGC web service logic on top of Pylons, a mature web application framework for the Python language. This approach gives developers a flexible web service development environment without compromising access to the full range of web application tools and patterns: Model-View-Controller paradigm, XML templating, Object-Relational-Mapper integration and authentication/authorization.
COWS contains pre-configured implementations of WMS, WCS and WFS services designed for serving earth system data using the Climate Science Markup Language, a web-client and cluster-enabled Web Processing Service (WPS) supporting asynchronous data processing.
COWS Components¶
- cows core: Framework library and server templates
- cowsserver: WMS/WCS/WFS server
- cowsclient: WMS/WCS web-client
- cows_wps: Web Processing Server
Under Construction¶
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