The document summarizes an upcoming hackathon event organized by several groups on March 22nd in Orleans, France to inspire innovation using geospatial data. It provides background on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) which is a not-for-profit international standards organization for geospatial data with over 500 member organizations. The value of participating in OGC events is described as helping achieve interoperability, build partnerships, learn about new technologies and more.

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THURSDAY MARCH 22ND : ORLEANS INSPIRE HACK
Organised by plan4All, OGC, NextGEOSS, DATABIO
from 8:30am to 12:30 pm.
106th OGC Technical Committee
Orléans, France
19-23 March 2018
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Meeting Sponsors

2. OGC
®
The OGC Mission
To advance the development and use of international standards and
supporting services that promote geospatial interoperability.
Global forum for the collaboration of geospatial data / solution
providers and users.
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Value of Participation
• Achieve technical agreement on interoperability
challenges
• Networking, partnership development
• Insight into emerging technologies and markets
• Discover solutions being advanced by others
• Unique ability to share cost / resources in solving
interoperability challenges

3. OGC
®
The Open Geospatial Consortium
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Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards
organization; leading open innovation for geospatial data
• Founded in 1994
• 520+ member organizations
• 100 innovation initiatives
• 50 Open Standards
• Compliance Certification Tests
• 270+ OGC certified products
• Thousands of implementations
• Enabling access to 100K+
datasets
Africa, 6
Asia
Pacific, 91
Europe,
204
Middle
East, 33
North
America,
189
South
America, 2
3

4. OGC’s Approach for Advancing Innovation
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Rapid Prototyping
Testing, and Demonstration
Standards
Setting
Market
Adoption
Innovation
Program
Standards
Program
Compliance
Program
Communication &
Outreach Program
Testing &
Certification

5. DWGs as of June 2017
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6. Metadata DWG Current works
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Several standards are used in different ecosystems
Geo World
ISO 19115
ISO 19139
INSPIRE
Geo-DCAT (JRC)
…
• Open-data and e-Gov World
DCAT (W3C)
ISO 18536 - Dublin core
…
• Archive World
ISO 15836 - Dublin core
…

7. OGC Position documents
• OGC Standard
– Implementation standard
– Abstract Specification
– Community standard
• OGC Best Practice
– A document containing discussion of best practices related to the use and/or implementation of an adopted
OGC standard or related technology and for release to the public. Best Practices Papers are the official
position of the OGC and thus represent an endorsement of the content of the paper.
• Engineering Report (ER)
• Discussion Paper
• White Paper
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8. OGC’s Approach for Advancing Innovation
© 2018 Open Geospatial Consortium
Rapid Prototyping
Testing, and Demonstration
Standards
Setting
Market
Adoption
Innovation
Program
Standards
Program
Compliance
Program
Communication &
Outreach Program
Testing &
Certification

9. Types of Initiatives – Agile Prototyping
Testbed
Technology
Maturation
Scope/
Variety
Hackathon Plugfest
Interoperability Experiment
Pilot
100-200
Number of Participants
TRL = 4 TRL = 8
0-3