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April 12, 2006

OGC Object Domain Modeling Support Initiative Request For Quotation Available

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, August 31, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the Object Domain Modeling Support (ODMS) Initiative is available at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/odms .The ODMS Initiative aims to develop domain models for utilities as a vehicle to achieve semantic interoperability within and across information communities.The OGC is issuing this RFQ in collaboration with the CADD/GIS Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (CADD/GIS Center).According to Dr. Warren Bennett, CADD/GIS Center, The OGC ODMS Initiative will help enable geospatial content sharing within and across information communities.Inquiries related to the ODMS Initiative should be addressed to Mr. Jeff Harrison, Director of OGC Interoperability Programs,, or (703) 491-9543.

April 12, 2006

OGC Recommendation Available to the Public

– The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that an OpenGIS® Recommendation has been made available to the public.The paper titled Recommended Definition Data for Coordinate Reference Systems and Coordinate Transformations is available for public review at http://www.opengeospatial.org/techno/specs.htm .This Recommendation Paper specifies a data model for metadata in support of the OpenGIS Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) and Coordinate Transformations (CT) Implementation Specifications, and specifies standard definition data for the data model.That is, each of these two specifications is expected to use a subset and/or superset of the Definition Data described in the Recommendation Paper.Comments regarding this Recommendation Paper should be forwarded to the OGC Coordinate Transformation Working Group at.

April 12, 2006

OpenLS Day Participation Fuels OGC Initiative

lhecht [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, August 8, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) hosted 41 representatives from 35 companies and organizations at a July 31st meeting addressing its upcoming Open Location Services (OpenLS) Initiative.Response to a Call For Participation, issued in mid-July, has been brisk, with over 150 organizations downloading the document.The OpenLS Testbed follows several other successful OGC testbeds where software engineers work in a hands-on collaborative environment to develop candidate interoperability interfaces.Each of the sponsors sees the benefit of a truly interoperable location services framework.Visit the OGC website at www.opengeospatial.org and the OpenLS website at www.openls.org .

April 12, 2006

OGC Web Services Request For Quotation Now Available

jharrison [at] opengeospatial.orgWayland, MA, USA, July 26, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that the Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the Open Web Services Initiative, Phase 1 (OWS-1) is available at http://ip.opengeospatial.org/ows .A Web service is a self-contained, self-describing, modular application that can be published, located, and dynamically invoked across the Web.Web services perform functions, ranging from simple requests to complicated business processes.Once a Web service is deployed, other applications, and other Web services, can discover and invoke the deployed service.This effort will address an OGC Services Model, OGC Web Registry Services, and Sensor Markup Language in support of Sensor Web.

April 12, 2006

OpenLS Testbed Call For Participation Now Available

Wayland, MA, USA, July 10, 2001 – The Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announces that the Call for Participation for the Open Location Services (OpenLS) Testbed is available at http://www.openls.org .The testbed will develop fundamental interfaces and services to allow a wide variety of location solutions to interoperate between infrastructure platforms and wireless devices.Organizations interested in participation or sponsorship of this testbed are invited to OpenLS Day on July 31, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Reston, Reston VA. At the meeting OGC staff will discuss opportunities for involvement and sponsors will present their goals.Realizing the full value of location services depends on consistent communication across different regions, technology platforms, networks, application domains, and classes of products.The OpenLS Testbed follows several other successful OGC testbeds where technology developers worked in a hands-on collaborative environment to develop candidate interoperability interfaces, which were then implemented in their technology offerings.

April 12, 2006

Major Implementation of Geospatial Fusion Services Demonstrated

Geospatial fusion refers to the ability of interoperable technologies to integrate text with geoprocessing and web based services.For this demonstration, In-Q-Tel funded the integration of commercial component software, with integration made possible by candidate OpenGIS interfaces developed last year in OGCs Geospatial Fusion Services Testbed (GFST).The prototype system was built to evaluate the potential of OpenGIS interface-enabled Geospatial Fusion Services (GFS) technology in an operational setting.The demonstration was the conclusion of the Geospatial Fusion Pilot Project (GFPP), part of OGCs Interoperability Program.The Geospatial Fusion Services pilot validated the value of geospatial fusion services to initiative sponsors and participants and illustrated the flexibility and utility of these technologies.

April 12, 2006

OGC Installs Directors, Appoints VP

June 19, 2001, Wayland, MA, USA – The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) has had its biennial election of directors with the result that eight sitting directors have been re-elected and three new directors have been elected.OGC directors are elected as individuals and do not represent the companies with which they are professionally affiliated.Mr. King has been a valuable advisor to OGC management on business practice and strategy since before OGC was founded in 1994.Since 1995, as the first Principal Member representative to OGC, she has worked enthusiastically with OGC staff to support OGC and ensure the success of OpenGIS in the market.David Schell, OGCs President, commented, Like the consortium itself, the OGC board of directors has a significant role to play in the OpenGIS consensus process.

April 12, 2006

IBM Joins OGC

Open GIS Consortium, Inc. announced today that IBM is a Principal Member of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC).As a leader in driving industry standards adoption, IBM is pleased to be helping the OGC build a standards platform for communication of spatial information, said Jim Kelly, vice president of marketing, IBM Data Management Solutions.As a major business systems provider, IBM works to help customers in all industries achieve efficient and effective management and integration of geospatial data with business data.By working closely with OGC, IBM can provide critical input and participate in the process of developing these innovative technologies.IBM will then help customers build and deliver their own geospatial offerings, offerings that help make time and space part of their own information economy.

April 12, 2006

Arliss Whiteside Receives OGCs Gardels Award

June 07, 2001, Wayland, MA, USA – At the June meeting of the Open GIS Consortium, Inc. (OGC), Arliss Whiteside received OGCs third annual Kenneth G. Gardels Award.The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance the vision of the OGC.In a letter to Mr. Whiteside, the OGC Board of Directors noted that Mr. Whitesides contribution has helped to significantly advance the Consortiums programs.The award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, one of the founding directors of OGC and OGCs director of academic programs.Mr. Gardels coined the term Open GIS, and devoted his life to the humane and democratic uses of GIS.