1. VGI Workshop 96th OGC Technical Committee Nottingham, UK Scott Simmons
17 September 2015
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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?
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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
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