® OGC Interoperability Program and Testbed 10 Q&A Webinar © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium August 6, 2013

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OGC ® A setting that aligns technology users and providers to work collaboratively An agile development environment to develop, test, and validate standards under marketplace conditions and foster innovation in the community An effective way to share the costs of developing well-crafted standards that provide concrete foundations for future enterprise architectures A repeatable process for building & exercising private-public partnerships to drive global trends in technology and interoperability © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Interoperability Program

OGC ® © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium 5 Global, innovative, hands-on rapid prototyping and testing program designed to unite users and industry in accelerating interface development and validation, and the delivery of interoperability to the market

® © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium OGC 40 Initiatives since 1999 Testbed Pilot OGC Network Experiment Specification Program Technology Maturation Specifications Implementations Demonstrations Types of Interoperability Program Initiatives

OGC ® © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Testbeds provide an environment for collaborative, fast-paced, multi-vendor rapid prototyping efforts to define, design, develop, and test candidate interface and encoding specifications. OGC Testbed Projects

OGC ® © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Testbeds provide an environment for collaborative, fast-paced, multi-vendor rapid prototyping efforts to define, design, develop, and test candidate interface and encoding specifications. Most recent testbed – OWS-9 55 organizations > 200 individuals 60 components 28 reports OWS-9 $2.85 Million

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OGC ® 1. Technical Documents (draft standards, best practices, change requests, etc) 2. Prototype Implementations (services, clients, tools, etc) 3. Demonstrations © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium Deliverables of OGC Interoperability Projects

OGC ® What? How? Why? © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Interoperability Program

OGC ® OGC Interoperability Program Global, innovative, hands-on rapid prototyping and testing program designed to unite users and industry in accelerating interface development and validation, and the delivery of interoperability to the market © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium Proven Process Accelerate development, testing, acceptance and refinement of standards & best practices Effective Process Align industry in advancing standards in state-of-practice IT systems Repeatable Process Over 40 initiatives successfully conducted using proven policies and procedures Competitive Process Regularly yielding a high-level of industry participation and cooperation Cost effective Process For sharing expertise and cost while gaining early marketplace insight and advantage

OGC ® © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium Ingredients for Success Interoperability Collaboration Fast Pace Agile Development Internationa l Expertise Common Requirements Pooled Resources

OGC ® Players Contribute financial resources in support of an initiative Drive requirements, technical scope, agenda, demonstration form and content of an initiative Sponsors Contribute to the definition of interfaces, prototypical implementations, and other engineering support Contribute in-kind funding Participants © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium OGC staff manages the entire process with policies and procedures proven to produce results.

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OGC ® Benefits of Involvement For Participants Early insights and skill building Early visibility Early market deployment Direct influence Broaden market reach For Sponsors Ability to Determine Market Interest Accelerated process - workable interface specifications in 4-6 months Vendors test, validate and demonstrate interface integrity – Rapid time to market Leverage of other sponsor’ funding to solve common/similar problems Significant ROI overall (and as high as 25 for individual sponsors) Business potentialsSignificant efficiencies © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium Check out our youtube channel for testimonials from participants and sponsors

OGC ® Agenda Interoperability Program –What? –How? –Why? OGC Testbed 10 –Team: sponsors and IPTeam –Schedule –Threads –RFQ Parts –Response Template –Clarifications to-date Questions © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Testbed 10 Sponsors AGC (US Army Geospatial Center) ESA (European Space Agency) EUROCONTROL FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration) GeoConnections - Natural Resources Canada Harris Lockheed Martin Corporation NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) NWS (NOAA National Weather Service) UK DSTL (UK MoD Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) USGS (US Geological Survey) © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.

OGC ® OGC Testbed 10 IP Team Luis Bermudez Jennifer Harne Johannes Echterhoff Raj Singh Nadine Alameh

OGC ® © 2013, Open Geospatial Consortium OGC Testbed 10 Schedule MilestoneDate Concept DevelopmentJan 2013 – May 2013 RFQ ReleaseJuly 15, 2013 Q&A WebinarAug 6, am EDT RFQ DueAug 26, 2013 Kickoff (Aviation)Sep 27, 2013 (Frascati Italy) Kickoff (CCI, Open Mobility)Oct 7-9, 2013 (Wash DC) Final DeliverablesApril 30, 2013

OGC ® OGC Testbed 10 © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium Aviation Validation of FIXM Support of AIXM in Dev Tools (J2EE,.NET) Exchange of Terrain data And more… Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI) Domain Ontologies Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Linked Data And more… Open Mobility Cloud Computing Mobile Data Packaging and Delivery Context Sharing And much more…

OGC ® RFQ Parts Main Body –Master schedule –Evaluation criteria –Proposal format Annex A – WBS and Work Items –Sponsor priorities/Deliverables funding –Initiative process framework –Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Annex B - Architecture –Thread summaries –Standards baseline –Thread architecture (RM-ODP) Annex C – Concept of Operations –Project lifecycle phases –Proposal evaluation, selection and negotiations –Kickoff –Progress reporting Annex D – Communication Plan – reflectors, website, portal, twiki, etc –Teleconference/webex procedures –Code of conduct New to the process? Don’t know where to start? Consult the QuickStart Guide /quickstart.html © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Response Template Technical Response Template Finance Template © 2013 Open Geospatial Consortium

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