1. The Canada Forum on Geospatial Standards February 19, 2019 1300-1400 EST

2. Agenda Introduction to the Canada Forum 2018 Activities Report
2019/2020 Planned Events
Proposed 2019/ Work Plan Options
Open Discussion
Next Steps and Close

3. https://external.opengeospatial.org/twiki_public/CanadaForum/WebHome
Background
Created based on consultation with the Canadian community, beginning with a summit held in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, in June of 2017.
More Information is available at the public Wiki
Graphic Summarizing the St. John’s, 2017 Summit Results

4. A Platform for.. Collaboration and Consensus
Identification of Priority Issues
Outreach
Market Development
Cross Community Collaboration
Capacity Building
Remote Communities

5. Charter Members AE Inc. Size AE Inc. CAE
Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM)
Compusult Ltd.
Cubewerx Inc.
Ecere Corp.
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
Esri Canada Ltd.
Fisheries and Marine Institute (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
Mohawk Council Kahnawake
Mount Royal University
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
Internal Services Department - Geographic Information Services (Province of Nova Scotia)
NewfoundView
the PYXIS innovation
SensorUP
Teledyne CARIS
Tesera Systems Inc.
University of Calgary

6. Co-chairs Aurelian Constantinescu, CAE Inc.
Bradford Dean, Mohawk Council of Kahnawake
Andy Hoggarth, Teledyne - CARIS
Tom Landry, Centre de Recherche Informatique de
Montréal /Computer Research Institute of Montreal
Cameron Wilson, Ressources naturelles Canada/ Natural Resources Canada
Spell them out

7. It’s a Big Tent - Room For all!

8. 2018 Activities Formal approval by the OGC community, April
2018 Focus – Sustained informal consultation with the Canadian community (plus international dimension)
Formal approval by the OGC community, April
Soft launch, OGC meetings, Fort Collins, CO, June
Indigenous Mapping Workshop, Montreal, August
CCOG / Canada SDI Summit, Whitehorse, October
GeoAlberta, Edmonton, October
Geomatics Atlantic, Halifax, November
ESA Phi Week, Frascati, Italy, November
Informal meeting of Canadians, OGC Meetings, Charlotte. NC, December
The key take-away from 2018 interaction with the Canadian Community was “Interested but what are the next steps/how can my organization help? “.

9. 2019/2020 Calendar
Key Event – Work towards a Face-to-Face and remote meeting during the OGC September meetings in Banff
40th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing & Geomatics Atlantics 2019, Fredericton, June, 4 to 6
Open Government Partnership (OGP) Global Summit, Ottawa, May 29-31
GeoIgnite/ Standards Policy Workshop side event (TBC) – Ottawa, June 18/19
International Geoscience and Remotes Sensing Symposium, Yokohama, Japan, July 28 to August 2nd
Indigenous Mapping Workshop, August
112th OGC meetings, Banff, AB, September 9-12th, Host U of Calgary and SensorUp (plus others TBC)
Geomatics Alberta, Red Deer, November
2020 – 115th OGC Meetings, Montreal, QC, June, Sponsored by CAE Inc

10. Workplan Options (1) Innovation Show Case Communications Support
Workplan Options were collected based on consultation from April to December 2018
Innovation Show Case
Schedule and participate in an innovation showcase as a side event at the OGC meetings in Banff, in September - Theme based with a standards and interop focus
Call to forum members;
Volunteers to create a group that would refine and plan this event.
Communications Support
Create and manage social media and web presence, with content curation (e.g. application showcases) .
Contribution of resources to support and maintain
Themes should be issue based ( e.g. Climate Change, Maritime Awareness, Public Safety etc.)

11. Workplan Options (2) Sandbox Outreach
Scope a national cloud based sandbox, inclusive of tools, data, how to guides (e.g. building blocks) to encourage and support capacity building, collaborative projects, and support the developer community (Virtual Geospatial Standards Innovation Lab?)
Call to forum members;
Volunteers to create a group that would refine this concept and check for feasibility
Outreach
Connect to a broader range of markets ( e.g. Superclusters , non- traditional markets to highlight the impact of Geospatial data and interoperability on the Digital Economy
Volunteers to support outreach and improved language for messaging

12. Workplan Options (3) Support open standards
The Government of Canada Directive on Management of Information Technology - Mandatory Procedures for Enterprise Architecture Assessment enables interoperability with open standards.
These procedures took effect on December 1, 2018
Currently Canada has 3,227 web services that publish 78,500 data layers*
Call to forum members;
Enable interoperability by exposing functionality as standardized web services, open standards based architectures, and procurement practices
Move from discovery and visualization to analytics, big data and cloud environments
* Source: Natural Resources Canada, February 2019
Directive on Management of Information Technology; Appendix C - Mandatory Procedures for Enterprise Architecture Assessment

13. Workplan Options (4) Data Stacks for Indigenous Communities
Outcome from the NRCan sponsored user needs assessment is a clear need for a stack ( GeoPackage?) of data (and maybe tools) relevant to a community, a need for capacity building and plans for sustainability. An exemplar stack should be available in time for Banff Meetings
Call to forum members
Consider contributing to other “Stacks”, with the idea that the Banff meeting would include the presentation of the Inuvik stack, and a discussion of gaps and next steps.
Indigenous Leadership Group
Work to establish an Indigenous Geospatial Leadership Group, to meet at a summit during the OGC meetings in Banff, inclusive of NGOs .
Call to Forum Members
Volunteers to help scope and establish the leadership group
A Key outcome from the NRCan sponsored user needs assessment is a clear need for a stack ( GeoPackage?) of data (and maybe tools) relevant to a community, a need for capacity building and plans for sustainability. An exemplar stack should be available in time for Banff Meetings
Consider creating other “Stacks”, with the idea that the Banff meeting would include the presentation of the Inuvik stack, and a discussion of gaps and next steps.
Work to establish an Indigenous Geospatial Leadership Group, to meet at a summit during the OGC meetings in Banff, inclusive of NGOs . Potential topics could include; The Data Stacks, standards and interop, and sustaining the process, Nation to Nation collaboration for data sharing and capacity building, unified requirements collection, First nations entrepreneurs, use cases from the Mohawk Council and Ttioweroton communities as per Bradford.

14. Workplan Options (5) Trade Mission
Create a showcase of Canadian private sector capabilities for use in domestic and international markets , revive the Team Canada approach and explore a trade mission(s) and/or domestic road shows
Call to forum members;
Volunteers to assist in refining the showcase concept, and work with government partners for a potential trade mission
Joint Canadian offering - standards based
Explore the possibility for the creation of a joint offering by commercial members to leverage advanced Canadian capabilities
Volunteers to create a group that would refine this concept and check for feasibility
Andy - e.g. Can DGGS Schedule and participate in an innovation showcase as part of the OGC meetings in Banff, in September . The showcase potential focus would be standards based applications/themes (e.g. Climate Change, Smart Cities, Marine, SDI, floods, and disasters) and technology (Radar, Ship tracking, Sensors, Machine Learning/AI), relevant to domestic and international issues.
Create a showcase of Canadian private sector capabilities for use in domestic /international markets (explore reviving the Team Canada approach for the latter – trade mission in 2020?)
Call to forum members;
Volunteers to assist in refining the showcase concept, and work with government partners for a potential trade mission

15. Workplan Options (6)
Increase activation of the University and Research communities
Determine key needs and work items. Potential work items include;
Training of High Qualified Personnel, work-integrated learning
Technology transfer
Providing operational research tools and platforms
Better management of shared infrastructure
Open Source, Open Data, Open Standards, Open Science
Sharing funding opportunities (RFI, CFP, ITT, research grants, challenges, etc.)
Others ?
Call to forum members;
Volunteers to help scope a potential workplan items
Open science is the movement to make scientific research (including publications, data, physical samples, and software) and its dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring society, amateur or professional.[2] Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks.[3] It encompasses practices such as publishing open research, campaigning for open access, encouraging scientists to practice open notebook science, and generally making it easier to publish and communicate scientific knowledge.

16. Open Discussion on Work Item Options
Innovation Show Case - Banff
Volunteers to design and plan this event.
Communications Support
Resources to support and maintain
Sandbox
Volunteers to scope and check feasibility
Outreach
Volunteers to support
Government Standards Community of Practice
Develop network of geomatics open standards practitioners and policy leads
Data Stacks for Indigenous Communities
Contribute to other “Stacks”
Indigenous Leadership Group
Volunteers to help scope and establish
Trade Mission
Volunteers to assist in refining the concept
Joint Canadian offering
Increased activation of the University and Research communities
Volunteers to help scope a potential workplan items
Ideas , Comments, Contributions

17. See you in Banff! OGC Meetings, September 9 – 13, 2019, Banff Center
Gather feedback - ask if community is interested in meeting again in a few months
Image Source ( Jan 25, 2019 ):

18. Contact Details Co-Chairs Facilitator;
Aurelian Constantinescu
Bradford Dean
Andy Hoggarth
Tom Landry
Cameron Wilson
Facilitator;
Trevor Taylor
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