Geospatial Web Harvester Development and Operations

By means of the RFP, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is seeking proposals from bidders in response to this requirement “Geospatial Web Harvester Development and Operations.” This work will advance filtering methodologies to increase the relevancy of geospatial web service catalogue content, broaden endpoint services, and develop a catalogue harvesting framework that can serve as a procedural guideline for future SDI implementations both in Canada and internationally.

NRCan is looking to award up to two (2) Contracts under Stream 1 and up to three (3) Contracts under Stream 2.
Stream 1 – Provide access to an operational (subscription-based) Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) geospatial Web services/API harvester automated solution and deliver weekly catalogues to NRCan and partners (e.g. federal departments, standards bodies (e.g. Open Geospatial Consortium OGC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), World Meteorological Organization (WMO), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM)), and project partners (Arctic Council working groups, Arctic SDI communities, Arctic Data Committee, Canadian Consortium for Arctic Data Interoperability (CCADI)) for publication. Stream 1 Contractor(s) will work with NRCan project authority (taskings) to implement harvester refinement solutions proposed by Stream 2 Contractor(s).

Stream 2 – Refine existing methodologies and explore new solutions for automatically harvesting, cataloguing, validating, filtering, and publishing geospatial Web services/APIs. Methodologies will be shared with Stream 1 Contractor(s) to implement.