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May 2, 2008

OGC® and buildingSMART alliance™ Release RFQ/CFP for AECOO Testbed

All organizations and individuals with expertise in the building information management field are encouraged to review and respond to the RFQ / CFP.The buildingSMART alliance and OGC decided that OGCs Interoperability Program is the right mechanism to encourage broad international participation in solving well-defined sets of AECOO community problems; facilitating cooperation among AECOO standards bodies; and achieving results no group could achieve alone.buildingSMART International and its National Chapters and the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) including its buildingSMART alliance and National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) Project have large roles in the ultimate success of this testbed.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Visit the buildingSMART alliance website at http://www.buildingsmartalliance.org.

May 1, 2008

OGC Announces Another Government Agency Chooses OGC Standards

Wayland, MA May 1, 2008 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is implementing a number of OGC standards.NOAA will begin the effort by establishing interoperable access to online databases maintained by the National Weather Service (NWS) National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), the National Ocean Service (NOS) Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and the National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service (NESDIS) CoastWatch Program.This will be accomplished using web service interface and encoding standards developed by the OGC.The use of interoperable standards to study the ocean ecosystem will help to yield a range of environmental, social and economic benefits.The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications.

April 14, 2008

OGC® Approves KML as Open Standard

Wayland, Mass., April 14, 2008 – The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KMLs transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC.The OpenGIS KML 2.2 Encoding Standard formalizes the KML 2.2 model and language while remaining backwards compatible with existing KML 2.2 files and tools.In comparison with the GoogleTM KML 2.2 Reference, the standard defines:the KML 2.2 geometry encoding and interpolation modelan extension model in support of application profilesconformance requirements and test casesThe adopted OpenGIS KML 2.2 Encoding Standard (OGC KML) is available athttp://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/kml/.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Google and Google Earth are trademarks of Google Inc.

April 9, 2008

OGC Adopts ebRIM Application Profile for Catalogues

April 9, 2008 – The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) membership has approved the OASIS ebRIM (electronic business Registry Information Model) application profile of the OpenGIS® Catalogue Service 2.0.2 standard.The ebRIM application profile was developed and adopted because it enables catalogs to handle services as well a variety of other geospatial resource types such as symbol libraries, coordinate reference systems, application profiles, and application schemas and geospatial metadata.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 345 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OpenGIS® 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.

April 8, 2008

OGC® Announces Call for Sponsors and Alliances in Interoperability Initiatives

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued calls for sponsors of two interoperability initiatives: the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed, and the OGC Pilot in support of GEOSS.The 30 April Sponsor Meeting will review the OGC standards baseline, discuss OWS-5 results, and identify OWS-6 requirements and plans.OGC Pilot initiatives are an effective mechanism to rapidly deploy, test and validate standards-based services based on real-world use cases.In OGCs Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing interoperability problems posed by the Initiatives sponsoring organizations.OGC Interoperability Initiatives include testbeds, pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability support services – all designed to encourage rapid development, testing, validation and adoption of OpenGIS standards.

March 17, 2008

OGC® and OASIS Announce Progress on Standards Cooperation

OASIS Standards enable a broad set of capabilities, and OGCs standards apply wherever where and when are included, explained Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC.This committee developed the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL), OASIS Standards.The OGCs Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards reference CAP and other relevant OASIS alerting standards including the OASIS Web Services Notification (WS-N) and Asynchronous Service Access Protocol (ASAP) specifications.About OASISOASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) drives the development, convergence, and adoption of open standards for the global information society.OASIS open standards offer the potential to lower cost, stimulate innovation, grow global markets, and protect the right of free choice of technology.

March 11, 2008

OGC® Chair David Schell Appointed to US National Geospatial Advisory Committee

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced that the OGCs founder and Chairman of the OGC Board of Directors, David Schell, has been appointed to a three-year term on the recently formed US National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC).The NGAC is a Federal Advisory Committee sponsored by the Department of the Interior.The NGAC includes members that represent the private sector, nonprofits, and academia as well as governmental agencies from all levels of government.Mr. Schell described the value of having OGC represented in the NGAC: The OGC is committed to working with the FGDC to achieve its goals.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 28, 2008

OGC(R) Announces OGC Interoperability Day, March 28 in St. Louis

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announces OGC Interoperability Day, an all-day event to be held on March 28 at the Westin St. Louis Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri.The demonstration will showcase results from the OGC Web Services 5 (OWS-5) Testbed.OGC Interoperability Day is sponsored by the OGC, Northrop Grumman and the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).OGC Interoperability Day is free and open to the public, but attendees must register at the web site.OGC Standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.

February 26, 2008

Astrium Takes Principal Membership in the OGC(R)

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (http://www.opengeospatial.org) announced that Astrium has increased its level of membership in the OGC to become a Principal Member.Principal Members have authority over the development, release and adoption of OpenGIS® Specifications through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee (PC).Mark Reichardt, President, OGC, said Astriums move to Principal Membership in the OGC reflects the importance of standards in the companys diverse business mission and customer base.As a Principal Member, Astrium is positioned to represent European requirements across the Consortiums programs.The companys core business is divided into three areas: the two business units Astrium Space Transportation (for launch vehicles and space infrastructures) and Astrium Satellites (for satellites and ground segments), and the wholly owned subsidiary Astrium Services for the development and delivery of satellite-based services.