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May 16, 2014

The OGC seeks comments on charter for PipelineML Working Group

16 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new OGC PipelineML Standards Working Group (DWG).The initiators encourage comments on the charter and invite participation in the OGC PipelineML Standards Working Group.The PipelineML SWG is a result of this cooperation.The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards.OGC standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

May 15, 2014

OGC calls for sponsorship in OGC Testbed 11

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a call for sponsors for the 11th annual OGC location standards innovation testbed.OGC Testbed 11 Sponsor Planning meeting to be held from 9000-1000 CEST 12 on June 2014 during the OGC Technical Committee (TC) meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.OGC Testbed 11 will build on the outcomes of prior OGC initiatives.More about the Testbed 11 Sponsor MeetingParticipation in the 29 May Testbed 11 planning meeting does not constitute a commitment to sponsor OGC Testbed 11.Join two other webinar to learn about results of OGC Testbed 10 (OWS-10)Interested organizations are also invited to attend two free OGC Testbed 10 webinars:OGC Testbed 10 Aviation Thread Webinar – 27 May 2014, from 1000 to 1130 EDT.

May 13, 2014

Pitney Bowes becomes a Principal Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) is pleased to announce that Pitney Bowes Inc. has raised its membership level from Technical Committee level to Principal level.Pitney Bowes has a clear corporate commitment to advancing open, interoperable platforms to address their customers communications challenges, said Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC.About Pitney BowesPitney Bowes provides technology solutions for small, mid-size and large firms that help them connect with customers to build loyalty and grow revenue.Pitney Bowes includes direct mail, transactional mail and call center communications in its solution mix along with digital channel messaging for the Web, email and mobile applications.Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new opportunity™.

May 12, 2014

The OGC adopts I15 standard providing ebRIM extension to OGC Catalog Services Interface Standard

12 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership as adopted the OGC standard, OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile 1.0.The OGC Catalogue Services Standard establishes a general framework for implementing catalogue services used for publishing and discovering geospatial data and geoprocessing services.The developers of the I15 standard anticipate that this standard will be useful to stakeholders in a wide variety of domains whose spatial metadata conform to the ISO19115 Metadata standard.The I15 standard provides an extension package aligned with the ebRIM application profile of CS-W for the cataloguing of data and services whose metadata implements ISO geospatial metadata standards.Download the OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile 1.0 at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat.

May 5, 2014

Register for the OGC Testbed 10 Webinars!

5 May 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites software developers, location service providers, spatial analytics experts, system architects and information system managers to attend two free webinars to learn about the results of the recent OGC Testbed 10.Work done in the OGC Testbed 10 Aviation Thread will be presented in an OGC webinar on 27 May 2014, from 1000 to 1130 EDT.Work done in the OGC Testbed 10 Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI) and Open Mobility Threads will be presented in an OGC webinar on 28 May 2014, from 1000 to 1130 EDT.As these ERs are approved for release, links to them will be provided on the OGC Testbed 10 website.Register for the free OGC Testbed 10 webinars here:OGC Testbed 10 Aviation Thread Webinar – 27 May 2014, from 1000 to 1130 EDT: https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/585676831OGC Testbed 10 Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI) and Open Mobility Threads Webinar – 28 May 2014, from 1000 to 1130 EDT:https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/511364679IMPORTANT: Organizations interested in sponsoring the next OGC Testbed have begun discussing technology threads, use cases, and scenarios for the OGC Testbed 11.

May 5, 2014

The OGC seeks comments on charter for Big Data Domain Working Group

24 April 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) seeks comments on the charter for a new OGC Big Data Domain Working Group (DWG).The widespread need to perform rapid, flexible analytics on Big Data has become a major driver in the Information and Communications Technology industry.Members of the proposed Big Data DWG believe that the OGC needs to make statements and provide guidance on the use of OGC standards in managing Big Data.The OGC Big Data DWG initiators aim to provide an open forum for work on Big Data management, analytics and interoperability.The group will consolidate findings on an OGC Big Data DWG public wiki to inform OGC members and the public and allow for feedback during and after document editing.

May 1, 2014

OGC calls for participation in USGS Interoperability Assessment Virtual Exercise

USGS data services get over 1 million hits per day.As part of the USGS Interoperability Assessment Initiative, the OGC and its members are evaluating the different USGS data services with the goal of assessing whether OGC standards as implemented in USGS servers are meeting users requirements.To achieve this goal, the OGC is issuing a Call for Participation (CFP) for the USGS Interoperability Assessment Virtual Exercise Responses to this call for participation are due by 31 May 2014.The overall goal of the initiative is to improve the user’s experience with USGS data services.OGC Standards support interoperable solutions that geo-enable the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT.

April 24, 2014

The OGC® adopts OGC Geo and Time Extensions Standard for OpenSearch

24 April 2014 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) Members approved OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions as an OGC standard.OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions can be downloaded from http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/opensearchgeo.The OGC® OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions standard provides a very simple way to configure OpenSearch for spatial and temporal queries over distributed repositories of contents having geographic and time properties, and for syndication of these search results in one large index.The OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions candidate standard specifies how to enhance search engines and configure them to access spatial data servers.The OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions standard includes work undertaken within the GENESI-DR (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations – Digital Repositories) project funded by the 7th Framework program of the European (EC Grant Agreement no.

April 22, 2014

OGC Requests Host for Compliance Tools Infrastructure

To support the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Compliance Program, the OGC is accepting proposals from organizations that are able to host the OGC Compliance Tools Infrastructure.The OGC Compliance Program provides the resources, procedures, and policies for improving compliance with OGC standards.A software provider whose product or service passes OGC compliance testing may pay a Trademark License Fee to use the Certified OGC Compliant brand in that product or services packaging and marketing.The OGC Tests are available at the OGC SVN in CTL (Compliance Test Language) and TestNG.OGC standards empower technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.