1. Geospatial Standards Activities
Presented by
Julie Binder Maitra To
FGDC Standards Working Group
November 7, 2007

2. Topics Status of Framework Data Standard
Review of FGDC standards program of work
Development and approval of Coal Mining Data Standard through ASTM International
2008 FGDC Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP)
FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan
Public review of the Wetlands Mapping Standard closes Friday, November 9, 2007

3. Status of Framework Data Standard
Edits on all parts but INCITS 436.7a,Air, submitted to INCITS on June 19
Edits on INCITS 436.7a submitted to INCITS on July 20
INCITS 436.7a requires a second ANSI-sponsored public review
All other parts are being prepared for ANSI production
Maitra received INCITS 436 (Base), INCITS (Cadastral), INCITS (Digital orthoimagery), and INCITS (Elevation) for review

4. FGDC Program of work Review of FGDC-endorsed standards (1)
Date
Document No.
Maintenance Authority
Recommendation
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (version 2.0)
1998
FGDC-STD
FGDC
Reaffirm
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Part 1, Biological Data Profile
1999
FGDC-STD
USGS Center for Biological Informatics
TBD
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Part 2, Metadata Profile for Shoreline Data
2001
FGDC-STD
NOAA Coastal Services Center
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS), Parts 1-4
FGDC-STD-002
USGS
Withdraw
SDTS Part 5: Raster Profile with Basic Image Interchange Format (BIIF) Extension
FGDC-STD-002.5
SDTS Part 6: Point Profile
FGDC-STD-002.6
National Geodetic Survey

5. FGDC Program of work Review of FGDC-endorsed standards (2)
Date
Document No.
Maintenance Authority
Recommendation
SDTS Part 7: Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) Profile
2000
FGDC-STD-002.7
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Withdraw
Cadastral Data Content Standard
2003
FGDC-STD-003
Bureau of Land Management
Reaffirm
Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats in the United States
1996
FGDC-STD-004
Fish and Wildlife Service
National Vegetation Classification Standard
1997
FGDC-STD-005
Forest Service
Revise
Soil Geographic Data Standard
FGDC-STD-006
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 1: Reporting Methodology
1998
FGDC-STD
National Geodetic Survey
Make minor changes
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 2: Standards for Geodetic Networks
FGDC-STD

6. FGDC Program of work Review of FGDC-endorsed standards (3)
Date
Document No.
Maintenance Authority
Recommendation
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 3: National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy
1998
FGDC-STD
USGS
TBD
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 4: Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Facilities Management
2002
FGDC-STD
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Reaffirm
Geospatial Positioning Accuracy Standards, Part 5: Standards for Nautical Charting Hydrographic Surveys
2005
FGDC-STD
Office of Coast Survey
N/A
Content Standard for Digital Orthoimagery
1999
FGDC-STD
Content Standard for Remote Sensing Swath Data
FGDC-STD
NASA
Make minor changes
Utilities Data Content Standard
2000
FGDC-STD
Withdraw

7. Review of FGDC standards program of work (4)
Date
Document No.
Maintenance Authority
Recommendation
Standard for a U.S. National Grid
2001
FGDC-STD
Public XY Project
Make minor changes
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata
2002
FGDC-STD
NASA
Make minor changes

8. FGDC Program of work Review of projects in work
Standard
Status
Date
Sponsor
Street Address Data Standard
Working Draft
Subcommittee on Cultural and Demographic Data
URISA
NENA
Earth Cover Classification Standard
Proposal
Earth Cover Working Group
Encoding Standard for Metadata
Working draft
Clearinghouse Working Group
Geologic Data Model
Geologic Data Subcommittee
Shoreline Data Content Standard
Public review draft
National Geodetic Survey
FGDC Profile(s) of ISO 19115
Metadata WG
National Hydrography Framework Data Content Standard
Spatial Water Data Subcommittee
Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy Standard
Biological Data Working Group
Federal Standards for Delineation of Hydrologic Unit Boundaries
Riparian Mapping Standard
Wetlands Subcommittee
National Standards for Wetlands Mapping
Content Standards for Framework Land Elevation Data
Final draft
1999/01
Subcommittee for Base Cartographic Data (retired)

9. Coal Mining Data Standard
Sponsored by Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior, and partners
Developed through ASTM International
Formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials
ANSI has accredited ASTM International to develop American National Standards
ASTM International has authority to designate its standards as American National Standards, without approval by the ANSI Board of Standards Review (BSR)
ASTM approved the Standard Practice for Minimum Geospatial Data for a Coal Surface Mining Permit Boundary on September 1, 2007
The standard will be forwarded to the FGDC Standards Working Group as a candidate for FGDC endorsement

10. 2008 FGDC Cooperative Agreements Program
Solicitation posted on-line at Grants.gov
Category 6: FGDC-Endorsed Standards Implementation Assistance and Outreach (excluding Metadata Standards)
Potential deliverables:
Implementation guides for FGDC-endorsed standards
Strategies that facilitate implementation of FGDC-endorsed standards through dynamic management of items
Training and/or outreach materials that promote use of FGDC-endorsed standards
Review and evaluation of FGDC-endorsed standards for consistency with voluntary consensus standards
Case history of the implementation of an FGDC-endorsed standard
Applicants shall contact FGDC to identify subject matter experts
SWG members shall serve on review panels

11. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan
Integrate voluntary consensus standards into FGDC standards program of work
Develop database of voluntary consensus standards and interface
Update FGDC Standards Reference Model
Revise FGDC Standards Directive #9, Maintenance

12. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Integrate voluntary consensus standards in FGDC program of work
Paying for voluntary consensus standards
Propose adoption of relevant standards from DoD IT Standards Registry (DISR)
Get away from ad hoc development and adoption of standards for the NSDI: need for an “architecture” of Standards?

13. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Integrate voluntary consensus standards in FGDC program of work
Discussion: Will charging for standards prevent implementation?
Considerations
OMB Circular A-119 directs Federal agencies to use voluntary consensus standards
American National Standards costs $30 apiece
While ANSI holds the copyright on the published standard, the source materials are ours
Problem not restricted to ISO and ANSI: many scholarly journals oblige authors to buy back their work
ANSI End-user Licensing Agreement (EULA) prohibits sharing a standard on a server.
NGA negotiated a licensing agreement to serve standards to designated employees and contractors
Actions??

14. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Integrate voluntary consensus standards in FGDC program of work
“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”

15. Relevant ISO standards from the DISR
FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Integrate voluntary consensus standards in FGDC program of work
ISO Standards
ISO 19107:2003, Geographic information -Spatial schema
ISO 19108:2002, Geographic information - Temporal schema
ISO 19109:2005, Geographic information -- Rules for application schema
ISO 19110:2005, Geographic information -- Methodology for feature cataloguing
ISO 19111:2003, Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates
ISO 19112:2003, Geographic information -Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers
ISO 19115:2003, Geographic information – Metadata w/ ISO 19115:2003/Cor 1:2006
ISO 19119:2005, Geographic information - Services
ISO 19123:2005, Geographic information - Schema for coverage geometry and functions
ISO 19135:2005, Geographic information - Procedures for item registration
ISO/TS 19138:2006, Geographic information - Data quality measures
ISO/IEC :2004, Information technology -- JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system
Relevant ISO standards from the DISR

16. Relevant OGC Specifications from the DISR
FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Integrate voluntary consensus standards in FGDC program of work
OGC Specifications
DISR Version
Most current
OpenGIS® Catalogue Service Implementation Specification
2.0.1
2.0.2
OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard
3.1.1
3.2.1
OpenGIS® Filter Encoding Implementation Specification
1.1
OpenGIS® Styled Layer Descriptor Profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification
1.0
1.1.0
OpenGIS® Web Feature Service (WFS) Implementation Specification
OpenGIS® Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification
1.3.0
OpenGIS® Web Map Context Implementation Specification
Relevant OGC Specifications from the DISR

17. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Integrate ISO and ANSI standards in FGDC program of work
Discussion: How do we develop a slate of candidate standards for FGDC endorsement?
Use the list of standards from the DISR
Match ISO standards with OGC specs using the Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model (GIRM)
Use dependencies as presented in Framework Data Standard
Others?
Computation Viewpoint
Information Viewpoint
Service Invocation
Information Transfer
Implementation specifications ("how")
Interface
Encoding
Abstract models ("what")
Behavior
Content
GIRM
Framework base dependencies
on ISO series of geographic information standards

18. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Develop database and interface for relationships among standards
Provide information about document pricing, rights, and normative references in one place.
Elements
Dublin Core elements
Cost
Comment
Data entry in Excel spreadsheet
Future plans
XML
RDF
Visualization: diagrams showing relationships among standards and normative references

19. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Develop database for relationships among standards
Dublin Core
ISO 15386:2003, Information and documentation - The Dublin Core metadata element set
ANSI/NISO Z , The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
Dublin Core Metadata Elements
Contributor - An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource.
Coverage - The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant.
Creator - An entity primarily responsible for making the resource.
Date - A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource.
Description - An account of the resource. Used abstract.
Format - The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource. Used “text,” from DCMI Type Vocabulary,
Identifier - An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context. Document number or URL?
Publisher - An entity responsible for making the resource available.

20. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Develop database for relationships among standards
Dublin Core Metadata Elements (continued)
Relation – A related resource. Here, URL for normative reference
Rights - Information about rights held in and over the resource. Either URL or text for licensing agreement.
Source - The resource from which the described resource is derived. Use URL for standard?
Subject - The topic of the resource.
Title - A name given to the resource.
Type - The nature or genre of the resource. Used “application/pdf” from IANA | MIME Media Types,

21. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Update FGDC Standards Reference Model
Current FGDC Standards Reference Model (March 1996)
Uses outdated “information engineering” method for “structured approach to standards development”
Has only a placeholder for “Related Standards Bodies”
Updated FGDC Standards Reference Model should
Provide an “architecture” of standards
Account for voluntary consensus standards, consistent with OMB Circular A-119

22. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Update FGDC Standards Reference Model
Literature review:
Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) and FEA Geospatial Profile
OGC Reference Model
ISO 19101:2002, Geographic information - Reference Model
ISO/PDTS , Geographic information - Reference model - Part 2: Imagery
Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model, Version 1.2
ISO/IEC 10746, Information technology -- Open Distributed Processing -- Reference model
Geospatial Line of Business Common Solutions and Target Architecture

23. FY 2008 FGDC Standards Work Plan Revise Directive #9, Maintenance
Review of FGDC-endorsed standards revealed that terms and definitions in Directive #9 were inadequate
Review ISO and rules for maintaining DISR for approaches for managing FGDC standards program of work – TBD
Draft revision available through PBwiki
Current term
Proposed term
Comment
Reissue
no modifications: "as-is"
Revise
Make minor changes
editorial changes or clarification only
Change
Technical changes
Withdraw
Retire?
Deprecate?
Standard has been superseded OR equivalent voluntary consensus standard exists

24. References
Framework Data Standard,
FGDC Standards program of work,
Coal Mining Data Standard,
2008 FGDC Cooperative Agreements Program (CAP),
OMB Circular A-119,
ANSI End-user License Agreement (EULA),
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
Geospatial Intelligence Standards Working Group (for DISR),
PKI required to access DISR
OpenGIS® Specifications,
Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model, Version 1.2,
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative,
FGDC Standards Reference Model
Current version,
Literature review – Revision of FGDC Standards Reference Model,
FGDC Standards Directive #9, Maintenance
Current version,
Revisions,

25. Thank you! (Ms.) Julie Binder Maitra
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
Chair, FGDC Standards Working Group
Vice-Chair, INCITS Technical Committee L1,
Geographic Information Systems
Phone: (703) GMT -5 h
Web:
FGDC Standards:
INCITS:
"We live in two worlds:
the world that we can measure with line and rule, and
the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination." - Leigh Hunt