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The importance of international standards for data exchange

Denise McKenzie

Executive Director, Communications & Outreach

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

World Bank Land & Poverty Conference27 March 2014

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You know when you don’t have it!

INTEROPERABILITY


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Interoperability: information integration

Location data

Location data

Location data

Location data

Location data

Value of open

standards

“We need to share maps on the Web, across devices or platforms.” “We don't have a common

language to speak about our geospatial data or our services.”

“We need to find and pull together data from our automated sensors.”

“We have security issues relating to geospatial data exchange.”

”We need to deliver data to different systems.”


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The Importance of OGC Standards Location Interoperability

• Defined as the ability of diverse data sources, systems and organizations to work together (inter-operate).

• Saves time, reduces cost, increases market choice, protects assets and lives

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• Ease information sharing • Promote information reuse• Reduce duplication of effort• Flexibility to add new

capabilities• Vendor neutral


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Addressing the Interoperability Challenge Cross-Boundary and Cross Domain Information Sharing

Source: David Rydevik, Thailand Tsunami, 2004

Ability to access, fuse and apply diverse content when and where needed is critical to situational awareness and disaster planning/ response

Source: www.fao.org/docrep/008/ae929e/ae929e03.htm

http://bushfireaid.wikispaces.com/


http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/ae929e/ae929e03.htm

http://bushfireaid.wikispaces.com/

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OGC Standards Enable Location Integration Within and Across Domains

OGC standards provide the ability to rapidly incorporate location information from many sources for enhanced situational awareness

and improved decision making

Geospatial Information Sensor Observations

Complex Processing

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NSDI - India GeoPortal Map Viewer


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Source: Geoportal of the Catalonia SDI

Source: onegeology.org

Slide Source: DigitalGlobeBefore / After Tsunami

OGC Standards Underpin Spatial Data Infrastructures


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Emergency / Disaster Management

Aviation Flight Information /

Safety

Meteorology, Hydrology, Ocean

MonitoringMobile Location ServicesReal Time Traffic Alerts

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Who are we?

• 470+ member organizations and growing

• 40 standards freely available

• Hundreds of product implementations

• Emphasis on collaborative testing, prototyping with user community and industry

• Alliances and collaborative activities with ISO and many other SDOs

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OGC Alliance Partners A Critical Resource for Advancing Standards

… and otherswww.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners


http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners

http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners

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Working together


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Governance Strengthened by Standards Policy

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Importance of Data Standards and EncodingsCommunity Data Sharing

• CityGML (www.citygml.org)– Common information model for the representation of

3D urban objects. It defines the classes and relations for the most relevant topographic objects in cities and regional models with respect to their geometrical, topological, semantic and appearance properties.

• GeoSciML (www.opengis.net/GeoSciML/)– GeoSciML accommodates the goal of representing

geoscience information associated with geologic maps and observations, as well as being extensible in the long-term to other geoscience data.

• WaterML (www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml)

– encoding standard for the representation of in-situ hydrological observations data

• Emerging standards– Agriculture– CarbonML– SoilML– PipelineML– SensorML

Weather Information XML (WXXM)


http://www.citygml.org/

http://www.opengis.net/GeoSciML/

https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/CGIModel/GeoSciML

http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/waterml

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Breaking down barriers between: • Nations, languages and cultures• Disciplines, professions and industries• Industry, government, academia and the public• Local, regional and national government• Teams, departments, organisations• Different technologies and vendor products• Legacy systems and new components/solutions

Interoperability: information sharing

Human Interoperability


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Enabling a Common Picture of Reality

“What the OGC is doing is facilitating a common picture of reality for different organizations which have different views of the reality, the disaster, the catastrophe, that they all have to deal with collectively”

David SchellOGC Founder

OGC Interoperability Testbed, Phase 4, New York City, 2006


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Summary

• OGC standards promote interoperability for improved situational awareness and decision making within and across organizations and jurisdictions

• OGC standards requirements have been influenced heavily by pubic safety, critical infrastructure protection, EM/ER, Homeland Security and Defense & Intelligence communities

• Procurement and technology policy language favorable to open standards like OGC will further improve market adoption and choice

• OGC standards, processes and membership can be an asset to any organization who needs to share their location data, either within their own organization or with others


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Thank you for listeningPlease keep in touch!

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Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

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Denise McKenzie, Executive [email protected]+ 44 (07) 581 118 189Twitter @spatialred

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