1. ® Sponsored by GroundWaterML2 SWG 97th OGC Technical Committee Sydney, Australia Bruce Simons 02 December 2015 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

2. OGC ® Proposed GWML2 SWG SWG Charter –Pending document 15-110 GroundWater SWG Charter –Posted for OGC membership comments 4 November 2015 Objectives –Develop a data exchange standard for the groundwater domain. The standard is to be known as GroundWater Markup Language 2 (GWML2) and will consist of conceptual and logical information models, and a GML-XML encoding specification. –Maintain and update the standard once established. Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

3. OGC ® GWML2 IE Engineering Report 15-082 OGC GroundWaterML 2 - GW2IE Final Report15-082 Written in draft standard format –Conceptual model –Logical model –Requirements classes –XML implementation –Abstract test suite (normative) Additional IE specific material –Use cases and implementation results –Remaining issues Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium

4. OGC ® Proposed Schedule Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium June 2016Apr 2016Feb 2016Dec 2015Jan 2016May 2016 OGC Sydney Charter acceptance; Commence public comment OGC Dublin GWML2 standard vote End public comment 30 days after SWG Charter acceptance Start SWG After public comment GWML2 standard Submission to membership Draft GWML2 standard Revisions completed 60 days after start date

5. OGC ® Anticipated Participants –Geological Survey of Canada (GSC-NRCan), Canada –U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), United States of America –Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia –Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), Australia –Federation University Australia (FedUni), Australia –Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), France –Salzburg University (U Salzburg), Austria More welcome! Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium