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July 1, 2009

OGC Releases Videos of GEOSS Interoperability Demo

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has posted videos of demonstrations of Phase 2 of the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP-2) on the OGC website at http://www.ogcnetwork.net/pub/ogcnetwork/GEOSS/AIP2/index.html.The AIP-2 pilot activity, which began in September 2008, is a project of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations) AR-09-01b Task Team.AIP-2 Engineering Reports will be made available to the GEOSS Best Practice Registry ( http://www.ogcnetwork.net/AIP2ERs ) for use by organizations in and outside of GEOSS .GCI is built upon GEOSS Interoperability Arrangements, including several OGC standards.Ivan Deloatch, USGS and co-chair of the GEO Architecture and Data Committee, commented that The GEOSS process depends upon contributions from many organizations to build the system of systems.

June 12, 2009

Call for Sponsors: Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest at FOSS4G

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®), the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) are conducting a Climate Challenge Integration Plugfest (CCIP) to be launched at the FOSS4G (Free, Open Source Software for Geomatics) Conference in Sydney, Australia, 20-23 October, 2009 (http://2009.foss4g.org).The OGC is seeking CCIP sponsors.Participation is open to all software vendors, programmers and system integrators regardless of whether their software is open source or proprietary.The climate change community has much to gain from using the GEOSS architecture (http://www.earthobservations.org) and implementation plans for the Global Observing System for Climate (http://www.gosic.org/ios/GCOS-main-page.htm), which employ OGC standards.The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) (http://osgeo.org) has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software.

June 1, 2009

OGC Calls for Sponsors for Major Interoperability Testbed

Wayland, MA, June 1, 2009.The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors of the OGC Web Services, Phase 7 (OWS-7) Testbed.At this meeting potential sponsors will review the OGC standards baseline, discuss OWS-6 results, and document OWS-7 requirements and plans.Alliances with other Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) are a key element of developing OGC specifications for geospatial applications.Therefore, the OGC is also seeking partnerships with other SDOs to develop sponsorship of the OWS-7 Testbed.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 27, 2009

OGC Announces June 9 Asia-Pacific Webinar Demo of OWS-6 Interoperability Testbed Results

On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar demonstrating results from the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) testbed activity.- Decision Support Services (DSS): ISO 19117 and OpenGIS Style Layer Descriptor (SLD) Encoding Standard portrayal; 3D fly-through; indoor/outdoor 3D route services; OpenGIS Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) interface development; and integrated clients for multiple OGC Web Service (OWS) services.- Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE): Continued development of robust test and certification tools for the OGC Web Mapping Service (WMS) 1.3 standard.The webinar will demonstrate OWS-6 achievements involving Web services architecture and interoperability solutions that are documented in OGC Engineering Reports.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 26, 2009

OGC Announces June 10 Webinar Demo of OWS-6 Interoperability Testbed Results

On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EDT (15:00-17:00 UTC), the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) will conduct a free webinar demonstrating results from the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) testbed activity.- Decision Support Services (DSS): ISO 19117 and OpenGIS Style Layer Descriptor (SLD) Encoding Standard portrayal; 3D fly-through; indoor/outdoor 3D route services; OpenGIS Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS) interface development; and integrated clients for multiple OGC Web Service (OWS) services.- Compliance and Interoperability Test and Evaluation (CITE): Continued development of robust test and certification tools for the OGC Web Mapping Service (WMS) 1.3 standard.The webinar will demonstrate OWS-6 achievements involving Web services architecture and interoperability solutions that are documented in OGC Engineering Reports.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 7, 2009

OGC Announces 3D Fusion Summit

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) invites participation in an OGC 3D Fusion Summit to be held June 23, 2009 at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The OGCs 3-D Information Management Domain Working Group (3DIM WG) is becoming an important forum activity for discussing and promoting the convergence of 3-D visualization, CAD-GIS integration, and Building Information Modeling (BIM).In addition, the same standards support scene visualization and decision support systems in defense, intelligence and emergency management.For OGC 3D Fusion Summit information, agenda and registration, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0906233dfusion.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 6, 2009

OGC Announces Sensor Web Enablement Summit

The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) invites participation in an OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Summit to be held June 24, 2009 at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The OGCs Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards (http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/markets-technologies/swe) enable developers to make all types of sensors, transducers and sensor data repositories discoverable, accessible and useable via the Web.We are holding this summit to show the comprehensive framework of open Web standards our members have developed to describe, publish, and access sensors and sensor data.For OGC Sensor Web Enablement Summit information, agenda and registration, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090624swe.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 6, 2009

OGC Announces Geospatial Rights Management Summit

May 6, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts.The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) invites participation in an OGC Geospatial Rights Management (GeoRM) Summit to be held June 22, 2009 at the Stata Center at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Geospatial data and services – Earth images, GIS, map browsers, location services, navigation, etc.The issues are complex because geospatial data products are often composed of data from multiple sources which may have different rights and restrictions associated with them.For OGC GeoRM Summit information, agenda and registration, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090622georm.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

May 5, 2009

OGC to Demonstrate Interoperability for Building Energy and Construction Costs

The AECOO-1 Testbed exchanged building information using Industry Foundation Class (IFC) standards to analyze tradeoffs between construction cost and energy efficiency.AECOO-1 focused on two important aspects of building design and construction: 1) building performance and energy analysis and 2) quantity take-offs.Achievements involving data exchange between various building information model software applications and EnergyPlus energy analysis software, and3.The Alliance is the umbrella organization for two permanent projects: the National CAD Standard and the National Building Information Modeling Standard.Its collective goal is open interoperability and full lifecycle implementation of building information models.