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November 2, 2011

The OGC Forms REST and WFS/FE Standards Working Groups

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announced the formation of two new OGC Technical Committee Standards Working Groups: the RESTful Service Policy Standard Working Group (REST SWG) and the Web Feature Service – Filter Encoding Standards Working Group (WFS-FE SWG).The purpose of the RESTful Service Policy Standard Working Group is to create requirements, recommendations and examples for the creation of OGC standards for RESTful Web Services.See https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=46511 for details about the scope and intent of the proposed RESTful Service Policy Standard Working Group.The purpose of the OGC Web Services Web Feature Service / Filter Encoding Standard (OWS WFS/FES) Standards Working Group is to address recent change requests regarding the use of the OGC® Filter Encoding Standard (FES) with the OGC Web Services Web Feature Service.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

November 1, 2011

Take the Business Value of OGC Standards Survey!

***The survey is a joint effort by two academic researchers who are OGC members and by the OGC Business Value Committee.The OGC Business Value Committee will use a summary of the results to help the OGC better understand the value of the OGC’s open standards and improve its programs for geospatial standards development, compliance testing and outreach.OGC membership is not a requirement, and you can participate even if the software you use or provide does not implement OGC standards.The researchers will summarize the data gathered from the survey, removing all references to individual responses, and make the summary available to OGC Business Value Committee members.The members of the OGC Business Value Committeehttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/businessvalueThe OGC is an international consortium of more than 430 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.

October 28, 2011

OGC Team Produces Winning Single European Sky Aviation Proposal

September 12, 2011 – The OGC announced that a consortium that includes the OGC and OGC members has been accepted as an Associate Partner of the Single European Sky ATM Research programme (SESAR Joint Undertaking).The international MOSIA consortium is led by SINTEF and includes other partners: Snowflake, Envitia, Carmenta, IGSI, OGC, NoMagic, M-AIS and the University of Münster.The team will advance architectural recommendations based on proven international standards in a cutting edge service-oriented architecture (SOA) and modeling context.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, sensors 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.

October 19, 2011

OGC Calls for Sponsors for Major Interoperability Testbed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors of the OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed.The OWS-9 Testbed is run under OGC’s Interoperability Program (IP), designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGC’s Specification Program.OWS-9 builds on the outcomes of prior OGC initiatives, more specifically the OWS-8 testbed, which addressed interoperability architectures, enhancements to existing OGC standards, and other candidate standards in four main areas: Aviation, Observation Fusion, Geosynchronization/Geodata Bulk Transfer, and Cross-Community Interoperability.At this meeting, potential sponsors will review the OGC standards baseline, discuss OWS-8 outcomes, and capture initial OWS-9 requirements and plans.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

October 19, 2011

Josh Lieberman Receives OGCs Gardels Award

At the September meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC(R)) in Boulder, Colorado, Josh Lieberman received the OGCs prestigious 12th annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/awards ).The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGCs vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.Josh Lieberman is a Senior Manager in the Geospatial Analytics team within the Federal Analytic and Forensic Technology group of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.The Gardels Award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, a founding director of OGC and OGCs former director of academic programs.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

October 18, 2011

The OGC to co-host 2011 OGC Korea Interoperability Day

18 October 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) will co-host a 2011 OGC Korea Interoperability Day event on 27 October 2011 in Seoul.The event is being held in conjunction with SMART KOREA 2011 (formerly known as NSDI KOREA), and as a complement to the High-level forum on UN-Global Geospatial Information Management being held from 24-26 October in Seoul.The theme for the 2011 OGC Korea Interoperability Day is National and Regional Perspective on SDI Policy and Standards.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.

September 28, 2011

OGC and EuroGeographics cooperate to advance European Spatial Data Infrastructure

28 September 2011 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) and EuroGeographics recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote interoperability through open standards to benefit the European geospatial community.In addition, EuroGeographics and the OGC will seek funding and in-kind resources to advance joint OGC testbeds, pilot projects, and interoperability experiments, with a focus on advancing the European Location Framework.EuroGeographics‘ members are developing an infrastructure to integrate their national data – including topographic and land information – to deliver the definitive pan-European location framework for a wide range of uses.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.

September 14, 2011

The OGC Forms International Augmented Reality Standards Working Group

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces the formation of the OGC ARML 2.0 Standards Working Group (SWG).ARML (Augmented Reality Markup Language) 1.0 is a descriptive, XML based data format for mobile Augmented Reality (AR) applications.The ARML 2.0 charter, which includes technical details about the scope and intent of ARML 2.0, is available at https://portal.ogc.org/files/?artifact_id=45439.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.

September 9, 2011

The OGC and CEN/TC 287 announce Smart Grid location interoperability workshop

9 September 2011 – The OGC and CEN/TC 287 invite participation in a workshop, Smart Grid and Spatial Data Infrastructure – Interoperability Challenges Now and in the Future, to be held 6-7 October 2011 in Ispra, Italy.Communicating geospatial information related to the grid must become much easier if Europe is to meet those targets.Every smart grid component – transformer, meter, air conditioner, power plant, electric car, solar panel, etc.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.