VGI Workshop 96th OGC Technical Committee Nottingham, UK Scott Simmons 17 September 2015 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Agenda Introduction to VGI content and methods discussion of the common VGI data sources, methods of collection, licensing terms, COBWEB examples Relevance of Standards to the VGI community where standards can contribute: data exchange, data quality, data service and user interfaces other requirements that can be standardized: ontology, semantics, portrayal/symbology Challenges for VGI data exchange - role of standards VGI community concerns with restricting flexibility in content dissemination requires rules: how to GeoPackage something like Open Street Map? COBWEB O&M citizen profile Sensors and sensor webs Challenges for VGI data quality assessment - role of standards implications for data fusion and propagation of uncertainty Provenance precision and lack of consistency for any single source accuracy vs. completeness Summary and Actions focus on next steps for OGC: new Domain Working Group (DWG)? Introduce topics into existing DWGs? Whitepaper mapping Standards to problems? Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Actions Populate reference papers and other information on VGI and related topics in OGC Portal repository OGC Staff take lead on writing a White Paper to describe OGC Standards that can support the VGI community and identify requirements that should be brought into the OGC process Large focus in session on data quality; perhaps data quality standards are more important than encoding or web services at the moment General agreement that there is need for a DWG Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium