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March 20, 2013

OGC requests implementations for compliance testing, offers free licenses

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) requests implementations of the following OGC standards to be used in validating beta compliance tests:Specification Version OGC Geography Markup Language (GML) 3.2.1 OGC KML 2.2 OGC OWS Context (OWC) 1.0 (pending) OGC Sensor Model Language (SensorML) 1.0.1 OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) 2.0 OGC Sensor Planning Service (SPS) 2.0 OGC Web Coverage Service – Earth Observation Profile 1.0 (pending) OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) 2.0.1 OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) 2.0 OGC Web Map Service (WMS) – Client 1.3.0 OGC Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) 1.0.0 OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) 1.0.0The OGC Compliance Program provides an online free testing facility, a process for certification and branding of OGC compliant products, and coordination of a vibrant community that develops and supports test scripts.Organizations that want to verify their implementations of OGC standards or that are seeking OGC certification use the compliance tests available in the testing facility.The beta testing web site and the CITE Roadmap provide more details about the tests that are currently in beta.A reference implementation is software that exemplifies proper implementation of a standard and is free and publicly available for testing via a web service or download.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 20, 2013

The OGC announces Best Practices Document for Earth Observation Product, Service and Sensor Discovery

20 March 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted as an official OGC Best Practice a document titled, OGC EO Product Collection, Service and Sensor Discovery using the CS-W ebRIM Catalogue.This OGC Best Practices Document describes the relations that exist between several metadata conceptual models: Earth Observation (EO) Product, EO Product Collections, Sensors and Services.These Web services include catalogue services for discovery of EO products, EO product collections and EO services, ordering services, feasibility analysis, Web map services and Web coverage services.The OGC EO Product Collection, Service and Sensor Discovery using the CS-W ebRIM Catalogue document is available and free to the public at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/bp.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

March 11, 2013

OGC  and buildingSMART International host Civil & Land Development Summit 2013

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Land Development Domain Working Group in partnership with buildingSMART International http://www.buildingsmart.org/ will host the inaugural Civil Summit as part of the OGC Technical and Planning Committee meeting in Abu Dhabi.This event will focus on the current need and future opportunities for open standards in Civil and Land Development.This one-day Civil Summit is the best opportunity in 2013 to engage in Civil and Land Development standards.AgendaDraft Agenda can be found here.RegistrationPlease register via this link.This registration is for the Civil Summit only.If you are attending the OGC Technical and Planning Committee meetings you will need to register separately via the OGC website.

March 4, 2013

The OGC invites comment on GeoSciML 4.0 Standards Working Group charter

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of a new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Group (SWG).The purpose of this SWG is to progress the GeoSciML data model and application schema for geoscience information interchange to the state of an adopted OGC standard.The OGC members convening this group invite the public to comment on the GeoSciML 4.0 SWG charter (https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=51418) and will consider comments received before 8 April 2013.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 28, 2013

The SI Organization, Inc. becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that The SI Organization, Inc. (the SI) has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.The SI delivers integrated geospatial data, innovative products and mission solutions to global markets.“We look forward to their continued involvement in OGC’s Technical Committee, and we welcome their voting participation in OGC’s Planning Committee.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location based services, and mainstream IT.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 25, 2013

The OGC Approves Semantic annotations in OGC standards Best Practice Document

25 February 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has adopted Semantic annotations in OGC standards as an OGC Best Practice.OGC standards provide standard ways of locating and transporting network-resident geospatial data and ways of locating and invoking geospatial services.This OGC Best Practice explains preferred methods of providing semantic annotation in OGC Web Service environments.It extends existing OGC standards and applies standards from other organizations such as the W3C to OGC Standards.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 20, 2013

GEO Announces Call for Participation in 6th GEOSS Pilot with OGC Leadership

20 February 2013 – The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has announced a Call for Participation (CFP) in the 6th phase of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-6).AIP-6 aims to increase the use of GEOSS resources by end-users.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) provides leadership in AIP-6 and invites OGC members and other organizations to respond to the CFP.The AIP-6 schedule will support the GEO Plenary and Ministerial Summit, to be held 15-17 January 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland.GEO, a voluntary partnership of 156 governments and international organizations, is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

February 19, 2013

The OGC Forms Moving Features Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of the Moving Features Standards Working Group (Moving Features SWG).This group is chartered to develop a candidate Moving Features standard from the discussion paper (OGC 12-117r1, OGC Standard for Moving Features; Requirements), which summarizes the requirements and basic idea of an encoding standard for moving feature data.This candidate standard will be brought into the OGC consensus process to be vetted and approved as an adopted OGC standard.The OGC members convening this group invite the public to comment on the Moving Features SWG Charter ( https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=52701 ) and will consider comments received before 13 March 2012.The proposed OGC Moving Features Encoding Standard will provide a standard for web-based Applications using moving feature data.

February 14, 2013

OGC Approves Climate and Forecast (CF) extension to NetCDF Core data model standard

14 February 2013 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership has adopted the OGC CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0.The CF-netCDF Data Model is a flexible data model widely used in climate and weather forecast systems and in other geoscience communities.The candidate CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is the latest step in a longer-term plan for establishing CF-netCDF as an OGC standard for binary encoding.The NetCDF data model is particularly well suited to providing data in forms familiar to atmospheric and oceanic scientists: namely, as sets of related arrays.The CF-netCDF Data Model extension to the existing OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) Core Encoding Standard version 1.0 is available along with other netCDF standards and a netCDF Primer at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/netcdf .