Will OOSTethys improve upon OpenIOOS?
Yes. OpenIOOS historically has utilized web services for image and data exchange, but largely without leveraging any of the advantages of having standardized metadata. WFS and WMS alone don’t provide any guidance for that. SWE does, and so OOSTethys extends the Service Oriented Architecture to include things like metadata repositories, registration and standard-mediation services. This will greatly facilitate data-search, -integration and lots of other capabilities.
