ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19981/18 Presentation to ISO/TC 211 Plenary Meeting 24 September 1998 Beijing, China Kees Wevers Convenor WG 5

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19982/18 l initial meeting of Ad-hoc WG 5 - Functional Standards - was held in Ottawa, Canada, 27/28 April 1995 l informal meeting of WG 5 - Profiles and Functional Standards - was held in Reston, USA, 30 August 1995 l first meeting was held in Drammen, Norway, 07/08 December 1995

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19983/18 l second meeting was held in Ottawa, Canada, 16 October 1996 l third meeting was held in Sydney, Australia, 22 January 1997 l fourth meeting was held in Oxford, UK, 29/30 September 1997 l a workshop on Functional Standards, Profiles and Product Specifications was held in Oxford, UK, 01 October 1997

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19984/18 l fifth meeting was held in Victoria, BC, Canada, 09/10 March 1998 l sixth meeting was held in Beijing, China, 23 September 1998

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19985/18 l purpose of WG 5: –to provide the bridge between the base standards under development, and existing standards and products –to provide a mechanism to put the base standards to use l two projects: – Profiles –15854Functional Standards

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19986/18 l international GI standards already exist l on the ISO/TC 211 agenda is the harmonisation of existing standards into profiles of more general standards l main goal of TC 211 is interoperability, for –flow and re-use of information –competition on an equal basis –reduction of costs

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19987/18 l four steps in achieving these goals: –identifying information components from recognised functional standards as input to TC 211 –development of base standards in WGs 1-4 –development of profiles using TC 211 base standards –development of product specifications using TC 211 profiles and base standards

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19988/18 Product Specs  Suite of Base Standards The simple picture Functional Standards harmoni- sation Profiles ISPs

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September 19989/18 l Work Item on Functional Standards accepted in ballot June 97 l scope: –taxonomy of recognized functional standards –identification of components of these FSs that can be harmonised between themselves and with TC 211 base standards –assistance with development of profiles corresponding to these functional standards l PT leader Debra LaMarque

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l ad-hoc Project Team meeting in The Hague, The Netherlands, May 1997 l first meeting of Project Team in Oxford, UK, 30 September 1997, embedded in WG 5 meeting l second meeting of Project Team in Victoria, BC, Canada, 10 March 1998, embedded in WG 5 meeting

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l functional standards identified to-date: –DIGEST(DGIWG) –GDF(TC 204) –S-57(IHO) l SDTS (not a functional standard) contri- buted its modularity concept

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l technical report Functional Standards, published 20 July 1997: –review of functional standards –mapping of functional standards to the ISO base standards (profiling) –harmonisation of functional standards (introducing the modularity concept for the base standards) –appendices with inputs and guidance for relevant base standards

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l Work Item Profiles l scope: –definition of guidelines for defining a profile/product within the TC 211 family of standards –establishment of a registration procedure l PT leader: Doug O’Brien

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l Committee Draft was due for March 1998 l delayed due to recent re-engineering of JTC1 directives (which provide primary input for registration procedure) l new version of document 04 Sep 1998 l presented and discussed in WG 5 meeting in Beijing

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l contents of document: –explanatory section on profiling –guidelines for creation of profiles –guidelines for creation of product specifi- cations –registration procedure l incorporates modularity concept for the base standards

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l document status: WG 5 working draft l comments to WG 5 until 31 October 1998 for final WD l procedure part will be discussed with ISO Central Secretariat l depending on result of discussion CD will be created / schedule to be determined

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l in Beijing fruitful discussions with other WGs/PTs on relationship of Profiles to other WIs, and modularity concept l 2 recent DGIWG proposals for the creation of ISPs were discussed: –purpose: to create awareness for profiles/ISPs –comprise a simple and a complicated ISP

ISO/TC 211 WG 5 Profiles and Functional Standards Presentation to 7th Plenary of ISO TC 211, Beijing, China, 24 September /18 l due to the fact that FSs are continuously evolving, a continuation of the current WI to develop a technical amendment, at stage 0, is proposed