© 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Activities Status October 2005

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.2 Selected OGC Current Activities Geospatial Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM) activity OWS-3 and Interoperability Experiments Group on Earth Observations (GEO) and GEOSS Specifications Status

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.3 Managing and protecting intellectual property Weak DRM Strong DRM no protection copyright statement click-through licence managed access watermarking encryption Today we rely on our legal framework and licence agreements to protect our intellectual property Our business is shifting so we need alternative ways to manage and protect our intellectual property

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.4 One to One: business to business One to Many: business to consumer Many to many: peer to peer Evolution of rights-managed business models Business Consumer Business ConsumerBusiness Consumer

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.5 GeoLicence extents Licencee Simplified view of the extents of a GeoLicence: three dimensions of rights, space and time Time Rights Space

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.6 GeoDRM Abstract Rights Model (ARM) Extents of intellectual property Owner End-User Licensing Agent Extents delegated to Licensing Agent Invalid request! Valid request Licencee Extents of licence

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.7 End-User Service Provider Content Request Licensing Agent Owner Licencee Payment Provider Delegates licensing policy Assigns licence Licence fee Payments Contract Assign Sub-licence Establish credentials Valid licence Delegates hosting GeoDRM – roles and responsibilities Delegates work Sub-Licencee Licence Manager

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.8 Licence fee End-User Service Provider Content Request Licensing Agent Owner Licencee Payment Provider Licence Manager GeoDRM – example business model Business ABusiness BBusiness C Assigns licence Valid licence Payments Sub- Licencee

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.9 Four scenarios under evaluation User accesses dataset from a single source Overlaying datasets from multiple sources Joining datasets from multiple sources Derived product – adding content GeoDRM Reference Model document being written as a result of investigations into applying existing IP management technology in a geospatial context OGC Web Services (OWS) 3.0 has a GeoDRM thread supported by requirements from GeoConnections Canada to test click-through licensing

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.10 Project GeoDRM.License SDI Joint Project: –German: Nutzungsbedingungen –Goal: SDI Application “tim-online” with interoperable License Click- Through, ( was rated #1 of 25 projects last year, very large web access numbers) –Based on geoDRM.OWS3 –Run by state NRW –License Click-through was recommended at the EuroSDR&eurogi meeting in February by policy makers –6 Member institutions

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.11 OGC Interoperability Initiatives Current OGC Interoperability Experiments: –Web Services Context Document Schema –Geo-interface for Atmosphere, Land, Earth, and Ocean netCDF (GALEON) –Geospatial Semantic Web –Sensor Alert Service OGC Web Services, Phase 3 (OWS-3) –Sensor Web Development –GeoDRM –Common Architecture improvements FGDC proposes Interoperability Experiment in support of interpreting and implementing the Geospatial Profile of the FEA

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.12 OWS-3 Organization Sensor Web Enablement Geo-Decision Support Services Geo-Digital Rights Management Sensor Alert Service Interoperability Experiment (not OWS-3) Open Location Services Common Architecture Catalogs & Workflow Integration & Demo

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.13 OWS-3 Sponsors (12) BAE Systems GeoConnections (Canada) Ionic Enterprise Lockheed Martin MAGIC Services Initiative National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) NAVTEQ Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Questerra US Geological Survey (USGS) Others

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.14 OWS-3 Status & Highlights Status –Nearly all service implementations on-line –Integration testing underway –Interoperability Program Reports (IPRs) being drafted –Demo planning and data management in high gear Highlights –SensorML and TransducerML blending –OpenLS Thread is independent, except for demo –Portrayal requires interaction of several OWS services –Start up of a new service GeoVideo

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.15 Geo-video view cone and sensor Sensor: HOT Viewcone

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.16 OWS-3 Demonstration OWS-3 demo –October 20 and 21 at SAIC in Tysons –Emergency management response Scenario Emergency Operations Center, Deployed Response Team Demo Products –In lieu of large demo audience Movie Interactive Demo Box –Resources: WNET NYC Channel 13, others

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.17 OGC Response to GEO OGC Board –Research and Global Issues Committee –Bob Correll, Roberta Balstead, John Werle, others OGC membership in GEO, February 2005 –OGC Earth Observation Working Group –GEOSS Architecture and Data Working Group GEOSS Concept Development –underway as OGC Interoperability Initiative

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.18 OGC Concept Development for GEOSS Conduct Constituency building workshops –GEOSS workshops: IGARSS, July 2005; AfricaGIS October 2005 –GEOSS architecture demonstrated with OGC specs Develop an OGC Technology Strategy for GEOSS –Identify relevant specifications from OGC Technical Baseline –Release an OGC-GEOSS Request for Technology (RFT) Conduct OGC-GEOSS Testbed –Apply OGC specs to Observations-Models-DSS architecture –Demonstrate interoperability between world data centers –Emphasize international sponsorship and participation

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.19 OGC-GEOSS Interoperability Initiative Continue Concept Development tasks –Demonstration at AfricaGIS, October –OGC EO WG endorsement of relevant OGC specifications –GEO-II meeting, December 2005 Pursue international sponsorship of Testbed for GEOSS –NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS –ESA, EC, Nottingham –JAXA? Call for sponsors: February 2006

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2005, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.20 Specifications Status Web Feature Service revision for change requests Simple Feature GML Profile to be balloted Web Processing Service (WPS) proposed Catalogue Services Profiles to be balloted for Implementation Specifications –ebRIM Registry Profile –ISO 19115/19119 Metadata Catalog Profile GML 3.1 advanced as ISO DIS GML in JPEG2000 for Geographic Imagery