® Sponsored by Member Orientation 96th OGC Technical Committee Nottingham, UK Scott Simmons 14 September 2015 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium.

OGC ® But first, who am I? I am the Executive Director of the Standards Program, which means that I look after coordinating standards activities and chair the Technical and Planning Committees BS and MS in Geology –I started as a petroleum geologist and learned GIS for very practical reasons 27 years work in oil & gas, engineering, and defense; assumed this position in the OGC in January 2015 –But don’t worry, I’ve been an active OGC member for over 10 years Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Oil is here GIS circa 1990

OGC ® The Technical Committee (TC) Where the formal standards development consensus discussion and approval process occurs. Comprised of a number of Domain Working Groups (DWGs, pronounced “dwigs”) and Standards Working Groups (SWGs, pronounced “swigs”) Work is guided by the TC Policies and Procedures Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® What do I do this week? Attend meetings and have conversations! Learn something new Teach something new –Because we sure don’t know everything Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1509tcagenda

OGC ® Where do I learn more? This presentation https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=63689 Meeting key information http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/1506tc Other meeting information https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=public&orderby=default&tab=4 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® The Open Geospatial Consortium Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading development of geospatial standards Founded in 1994. 515+ members and growing 48 standards Thousands of implementations Broad user community implementation worldwide Alliances and collaborative activities with ISO and many other SDO’s

OGC ® The OGC vision and mission Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium VISION: A world in which everyone benefits from the use of geospatial information and supporting technologies. MISSION: To advance the development and use of international standards and supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability. To accomplish this mission, OGC serves as the global forum for the collaboration of geospatial data / solution providers and users. Urban Model of Berlin based on OGC CityGML Source: www.3d-stadtmodell-berlin.de www.3d-stadtmodell-berlin.de

OGC ® What is an OGC Standard? Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium A document, established by consensus and approved by the OGC Membership, that provides rules and guidelines, aimed at the optimum degree of interoperability in a given context. Community requirements Member requirements Market trends Technology trends

OGC ® Five steps 1.Identify requirements 2.Form a Standards Working Group (SWG) 3.Create the Standard 4.Submit Standard for internal review and public comment 5.OGC members vote to approve Standard Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Metadata Service interfaces Exchange encodings Processing services Metadata Service interfaces Exchange encodings Processing services International data sharing and data services Sponsored Interoperability Experiments and Testbeds Defense Environment Commerce Science Etc. Defense Environment Commerce Science Etc. 1. Identify requirements Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Operational needs for data consistency or presentation Domain Working Group ® Commercial business drivers

OGC ® 1a. Requirements from alliance partnerships Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium –Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) –Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) –National Emergency Number Association (NENA) –International Organization for Standards (ISO) –World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) –World Meteorological Organization (WMO) –IEEE Technical Committee 9 (Sensor Web) –TM Forum –Open Grid Forum (OGF) –buildingSMART Alliance –Web3D Consortium

OGC ® 1b. Other sources of requirements Output from other OGC Standards activity –Current merged efforts of OWS Context and GeoPackage Existing encoding or service that owner would like to submit to OGC for adoption –KML, CDB Abandoned work that needs a home –LandXML >> InfraGML Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium CDB image courtesy of David Graham, CAE, Inc.

OGC ® 2. Form a SWG Write a charter (clear and precise guidance from OGC) –Find at least 3 charter members –Demonstrate business case Request Technical Committee (TC) to allow SWG to form Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium I said “SWG” not “swig”

OGC ® 3. Create the Standard Develop use cases Identify dependencies Work within OGC policy Comply with OGC Abstract Specification and OGC Modular Specification Invite experts Perform iterative internal and public reviews Use collaboration tools! Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® 4. Submit Standard for review OGC review –OGC Architecture Board check for compliance with Abstract and Modular Specifications –OGC Naming Authority for URIs –OGC staff for adherence to policies and Standards template Public review –Fully-advertised public review of 30 days of draft Standard –Public comments must be reviewed and either incorporated or discarded with cause Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® 5. Vote to approve TC votes to recommend for adoption by Planning Committee (PC) –Standard must be presented to TC in a meeting –TC must vote at that presentation to issue an electronic vote –45 day electronic vote with minimum thresholds for sufficiency and majority (2/3 majority) PC votes to adopt Standard –If YES vote from TC, PC vote initiated –14 day vote via e-mail, simple majority Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Organization Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Staff President and CEO Mark Reichardt Executive Director Communications & Outreach Denise McKenzie Strategic Member Advisory Committee Executive Director Interoperability Pgm Terry Idol Communications & Outreach Program Regional Services Interoperability Engineering Dir. Compliance & E-Learning Luis Bermudez CTO & Chief Engineer George Percivall Executive Director Standards Program Scott Simmons European Services Director Athina Trakas Americas Services Director Trevor Taylor Asia Services Director Trevor Taylor Middle East McKenzie / De Lathouwer Planning Committee Technical Committee & Working Groups Architecture Board Standards Program Global Advisory Council India M.K. Munshi

OGC ® COMMUNICATIONS AND OUTREACH OGC Programs and Structure Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Staff Communications & Outreach Program Regional Services Interoperability Engineering Standards Program Interoperability Program Compliance

OGC ® Communications and Outreach goal Work with OGC members and user communities around the world to encourage "take up" or implementation of OGC standards, as well as to encourage new membership and engagement in OGC programs and initiatives. –Includes management of all OGC communications resources such as the website, portal, and e-mail lists. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Strategic partnerships Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Developing and maintaining Strategic Partnerships is a key function of the OGC staff: –World Meteorological Organization (WMO) –Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) –OSGeo –OGP –OpenMI –TM Forum –buildingSMART –DGIWG –GEO –IJIS –USGIF –Environmental Modeling and Software (iEMS)

OGC ® Regional forums OGC forums provide for OGC Members to communicate on a country or regional level, recognizing local language, cultural, and policy requirements. Further, forums: –Promote and support OGC membership –Coordinate participation in the OGC –Promote policies, co-operative business development initiatives and public/private partnerships that support the use of OGC standards. –http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/regionshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/regions Existing forums: –Asia Forum, Europe Forum, France Forum, ILAF (Iberian and Latin- American Forum), India Forum, Korea Forum, Nordic Forum, North American, and MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa), Australia-New Zealand, UK-Ireland Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® INTEROPERABILITY PROGRAM OGC Programs and Structure Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Staff Communications & Outreach Program Regional Services Interoperability Engineering Standards Program Interoperability Program Compliance

OGC ® OGC Interoperability Program Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Interoperability Experiment Plugfest OGC Network Pilot Technology Maturation And Compliance Specifications Implementations Demonstrations Types of Interoperability Program Initiatives Testbed Standards Program

OGC ® Or put another way Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Research Projects Research & Technical coordination Pilots Optimization of your domain Interop. Experiments Testing your services in your domain Testbeds Development of new technology Plugfests Hands on experience

OGC ® COMPLIANCE TESTING OGC Programs and Structure Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Staff Communications & Outreach Program Regional Services Interoperability Engineering Standards Program Interoperability Program Compliance

OGC ® Compliance Program goals Provide robust standard compliance solutions for geospatial communities Provide a process whereby compliance for OGC specifications can be tested. Increase systems interoperability Reducing technology risks As of 25 May 2015, there are 813 Implementing and 205 Compliant products –http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/statshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/stats Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® REGIONAL SERVICES OGC Programs and Structure Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Staff Communications & Outreach Program Regional Services Interoperability Engineering Standards Program Interoperability Program Compliance

OGC ® Your local contacts Ready to assist with membership questions Can put you in touch with other members and/or staff for expertise Facilitate regional forums Attend regional conferences Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Who Europe – Athina Trakas Americas and Asia – Trevor Taylor India – M.K. Munshi Middle East and Africa – Bart De Lathouwer and Denise McKenzie Australia and Oceania – Denise McKenzie Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® STANDARDS PROGRAM OGC Programs and Structure Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Board of Directors and Executive Staff Communications & Outreach Program Regional Services Interoperability Engineering Standards Program Interoperability Program Compliance

OGC ® The Standards development program… is where and how the OGC standards are processed and adopted and contains four primary operating units: –OGC Technical Committee (TC) –OGC Architecture Board (OAB) –OGC Naming Authority (OGC-NA) –OGC Planning Committee (PC) Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium CityGML Levels of Detail

OGC ® Technical Committee meetings Quarterly Meetings (N. America, Europe, Asia, Australasia) –September 2015Nottingham, UK –December 2015Sydney, Australia –March 2016Washington, DC, USA –June 2016Dublin, Ireland Members can send representatives –Meeting fees waived depending on membership level Many sessions are virtual via web/teleconference If you are a voting member, consider sending a proxy if you cannot attend a meeting –Assign to OGC member, Technical Committee Chair as desired Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Domain Working Groups (DWGs) Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Where Members discuss technical requirements, use cases, and issues related to the development and revision of OGC standards. The results of OGC interoperability projects are presented and discussed. Many members present on the use of OGC standards. –Any Member or invited guest can attend any DWG session.

OGC ® Joining a DWG Get basic information –Public summary: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wghttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/wg –OGC member-only details: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&tab=3 https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&tab=3 Just show up and participate Join the DWG mailing list Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Standards Working Groups (SWGs) Groups that work on a new (candidate) OGC standard or revision to an existing OGC standard Members and invited experts may participate Guided by the OGC Policies and Procedures OGC Intellectual Property policies in full effect Usually work from 6 months to 18 months per deliverable Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Joining a SWG Get basic information –Public summary: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/swghttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/swg –OGC member-only details: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&tab=3 https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&tab=3 Sign the Observer Agreement Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Every DWG and SWG has a portal page Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Go to https://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&tab=3 and select the WG of interesthttps://portal.opengeospatial.org/?m=projects&tab=3

OGC ® OGC Architecture Board (OAB) Work with the TC and the PC to insure architecture consistency of the Baseline and provide guidance to the OGC membership to insure strong life cycle management of the OGC standards baseline –Reviews all OGC standards and revisions to standards prior to public comment. –General technology discussions and guidance –Issue resolution Nominated and Elected by the OGC Technical Committee Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Naming Authority (OGC-NA) The OGC-NA controls the assignment of OGC Names to resources of interest in geographic information infrastructures. Series of policy documents here –http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/directives#urnhttp://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/policies/directives#urn Current policy is to use http uri’s and not urn’s. Part of any OGC standards development process is to submit list of proposed URIs to OGC-NA for review. There is an OGC registry and a resolver for assigned names. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® The Planning Committee (PC) The Planning Committee provides guidance and the management structure for the Technical Committee and the Interoperability Program. –Members participate in OGC business planning and market focus activities –Manages the consortium’s technology release process –Approves special negotiated memberships and committee participation –Must be a Principal or Strategic Member or a TC representative to the PC to participate in PC activities Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Position documents OGC Standard –Implementation Standard (IS): A document containing an OGC consensus approved technology dependent (e.g, http) specification for interfaces, encodings, and related specifications based on the Abstract Specification. Testable. –Abstract Specification (AS): A document (or set of documents) containing an OGC (and in numerous cases ISO) consensus on a technology independent model that describes an application environment for interoperable geoprocessing and geospatial data and services products. Each document is referred to as a “topic.” OGC Best Practice –A document containing discussion of best practices related to the use and/or implementation of an adopted OGC standard or related technology and for release to the public. Best Practices Papers are the official position of the OGC and thus represent an endorsement of the content of the paper. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Other OGC documents Engineering Report (ER) –A document that reports on some technical activity in an Interoperability Program Initiative. An ER is by default not a publicly available document, but can be approved as a Public Engineering Report by member vote. An ER does not represent the official position of the OGC nor of the OGC Technical Committee. Discussion Paper –A document containing discussion of some technology or standards work for release to the public. Discussion Papers are not the official position of the OGC and contain a statement to that effect. White Paper –A publication released by the OGC to the Public that states a position on a social, political, technical or other subject, often including a high-level explanation of an architecture or framework of a solution. A White Paper often explains the results or conclusions of research. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Change Request (CR) Can be submitted by anyone – Member or non-Members Use the public Change Request Submission application –http://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/change_request.phphttp://portal.opengeospatial.org/public_ogc/change_request.php Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Collaboration using GitHub Many standards activities using GitHub for code, schema, and document management Example: https://github.com/opengeospatial/CityGML-3.0https://github.com/opengeospatial/CityGML-3.0 Most are private repositories, more and more will be public Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Guide to the OGC A Guide to the Consensus Process of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Revision to the former “Tao of the OGC” document – to be published soon Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® The OGC Reference Model (ORM) The OGC Reference Model (ORM) describes the OGC Standards Baseline focusing on relationships between the baseline documents. The OGC Standards Baseline (SB) consists of the approved OGC Abstract and Implementation Standards and Best Practice documents. http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/orm Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Abstract Specification The Abstract Specification provides the conceptual foundation for most OGC specification development activities Open interfaces and protocols are built and referenced against the Abstract Specification, thus enabling interoperability between different brands and different kinds of spatial processing systems The Abstract Specification provides a reference model for the development of OGC Implementation Specifications http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/as Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC Modular Specification Contains requirements for writing standards to be used for any document whose eventual purpose is the specification of requirements for software, services or data structures A set of testable constraints to which all OGC implementation standards must conform https://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=34762 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® TC Policies and Procedures (TC PnP) This document provides descriptions of roles, responsibilities, standards development and submission procedures, and procedures related to revisions of existing OGC standards. –The current version can be found here: http://docs.opengeospatial.org/pol/05-020r20/05-020r20.html A variety of FAQ and supporting documents can be found in a folder here: https://portal.opengeospatial.org/modules/files/details.php?m=files&art ifact_id=22851 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC member portal The Portal is designed to assist OGC Staff and Members in the management and conduct of all aspects of OGC related activities. http://portal.opengeospatial.orghttp://portal.opengeospatial.org Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® E-mail The life-blood of the OGC Every Working Group has an e-mail list. An e-mail list can be Members only or public. Public lists require WG Member approval. Any OGC Member in good standing can subscribe to any OGC TC e-mail list. Use the portal to subscribe as desired. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Two critical OGC lists tc-announce@lists.opengeospatial.org –Used for administrative, meeting, document review, calls for participation, and voting announcements –Moderated –Mostly OGC staff posts to this email list tc-discuss@lists.opengeospatial.org –For technical discussions –Any member subscribed can post –Moderated Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® OGC wikis Any OGC Working Group can request a wiki. Just need to let OGC staff know Wikis can be Members only or also publicly accessible. Need Member approval to have a wiki public. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® The Three Week Rule Under the TC Policies and Procedures, any document that is to be discussed and voted on by the members must be submitted at least three weeks prior to a given meeting. The TC can vote to suspend this policy for a specific document vote. –This requires a 2/3 majority of the voting Members present in order to override the Policies and Procedures Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Where to submit documents for discussion On the portal in the Pending Documents tab –Members attending a TC meeting are strongly encouraged to review the documents in the Pending Documents catalog and read those of interest. These documents form the foundation for many of the discussions and votes that occur at an OGC TC meeting. To obtain the current list of pending documents, go to: http://portal.opengeospatial.org/index.php?m=public&orderby=default&tab=2 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Schedules and agendas Defining the master schedule is a very fluid process Group chairs begin making meeting time requests almost as soon as the previous meeting ends According to OGC procedures, the master schedule is supposed to be “firm” 3 weeks prior to the meeting; the agenda is known to change up to the morning of the opening plenary –Meetings are filling very quickly these days: “firm” is often 6 weeks prior! Final meeting schedule is provided when you register for the meeting. Changes occurring during the meeting are posted on the bulletin board near the OGC meeting registration desk Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Votes happen all the time in the OGC Votes can occur in any of the following venues: –At the opening or closing Technical Committee plenary –In any of the Working Groups –In any of the TC sub-committees Votes can happen at face to face meetings or by electronic vote. There are rules regarding who can vote, when, and it what forum. These cases are now defined…. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Votes in a Domain Working Group Can happen in face-to-face (F2F) meetings or by e-vote Anyone can vote in a DWG vote Simple majority of those present carries the vote No notice is required for votes in F2F meetings A notice is required for any DWG e-votes However, only one vote per member organization! Motions can be made on any topic, typically DWG votes are to release documents for TC approval or to state a position Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Votes in a SWG Can happen in F2F meetings or by e-vote Only voting members of the SWG can vote Simple majority of the official members carries the vote No notice is required for votes in F2F meetings A notice is required for any SWG e-votes SWG votes are all about the business of advancing a Standard Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Votes in a TC Plenary A number of votes will occur in a TC Plenary. There will also be a variety of votes, including all the voting types identified in the previous slide. Therefore, it is important to know who can vote and when. The next slide has a table of voting types and who can vote. Don’t worry – Greg Buehler and I will keep track of the rules in TC Plenary votes! Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

OGC ® Table of votes that can occur in a TC Plenary Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium Vote TypeWho can Vote White Paper, Discussion Paper, or Engineering Report Any member Approval of Domain WG Charter Any member Election of TC reps to the PC Any member Best Practices PaperTC Voting Member Only Vote TypeWho can Vote Approval of new standard electronic vote TC Voting member only Approval of a revision to standard e-vote TC Voting member only Changes to TC P&P TC Voting member only Architecture Board Election TC Voting member only

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