Standards provide value in several ways:
1. Standards make geospatial information more understandable and accessible for governments, industry partners, and other stakeholders.
2. Collaboration through standards results in cost savings compared to proprietary systems and allows different systems to work together.
3. Standards stimulate economic activity by supporting new businesses and more affordable products and services.
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innov...STIEAS
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innovation. "Impacts of Korean innovative procurement policies", presentation by Woosung Lee
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innov...STIEAS
OECD workshop on measuring the link between public procurement, R&D and innovation. "Impacts of Korean innovative procurement policies", presentation by Woosung Lee
Plenary discussion 2: Questions from Local Climate Change Adaptation Centers ...weADAPT
Plenary discussion 2: Questions from Local Climate Change Adaptation Centers (LCCACs) in Japan
These questions have been compiled for the first of the BKE EU-Japan events: Enhancing Connections Across International, National and Local Adaptation Actions.
More details about the events can be found here: https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/climate-change-adaptation-knowledge-platforms/bke-eu-japan-event
To gain true momentum, open science and open scholarship projects and initiatives need to work together, unite behind common goals and form a movement. There are lessons learned from successful movements, both good and bad, that we can bring to bear to make rapid and lasting progress.
“Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society”, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015, conference organized by the Open Science Platform — an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. pon.edu.pl @OpenSciPlatform #ORD2015
Transparency in Government - Gov 2.0 and what it means for Science JournalistsCraig Thomler
These are the slides for my presentation at the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists, looking at how Gov 2.0 is changing the way science is funded, data is collected, analysed, reported and used.
FIWARE Global Summit - The Digital Single Market - Benefits and Solutions for...FIWARE
Presentation by Daniele Rizzi
Principal Administrator and Policy Officer, Connecting Europe Facility Program, European Commission
FIWARE Global Summit
27-28 November 2018
Malaga, Spain
Presentation given at the conference "open data for impact"
Erasmus+ project "Public Makers"
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wide-luxembourg_opendata-publicmakers-activity-6818166878473596928-7ImU/
Plenary discussion 2: Questions from Local Climate Change Adaptation Centers ...weADAPT
Plenary discussion 2: Questions from Local Climate Change Adaptation Centers (LCCACs) in Japan
These questions have been compiled for the first of the BKE EU-Japan events: Enhancing Connections Across International, National and Local Adaptation Actions.
More details about the events can be found here: https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/climate-change-adaptation-knowledge-platforms/bke-eu-japan-event
To gain true momentum, open science and open scholarship projects and initiatives need to work together, unite behind common goals and form a movement. There are lessons learned from successful movements, both good and bad, that we can bring to bear to make rapid and lasting progress.
“Open Research Data: Implications for Science and Society”, Warsaw, Poland, May 28–29, 2015, conference organized by the Open Science Platform — an initiative of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling at the University of Warsaw. pon.edu.pl @OpenSciPlatform #ORD2015
Transparency in Government - Gov 2.0 and what it means for Science JournalistsCraig Thomler
These are the slides for my presentation at the 8th World Conference of Science Journalists, looking at how Gov 2.0 is changing the way science is funded, data is collected, analysed, reported and used.
FIWARE Global Summit - The Digital Single Market - Benefits and Solutions for...FIWARE
Presentation by Daniele Rizzi
Principal Administrator and Policy Officer, Connecting Europe Facility Program, European Commission
FIWARE Global Summit
27-28 November 2018
Malaga, Spain
Presentation given at the conference "open data for impact"
Erasmus+ project "Public Makers"
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wide-luxembourg_opendata-publicmakers-activity-6818166878473596928-7ImU/
Keynote, Oman Geospatial Expo, Dec 2013Steven Ramage
Invited by Geospatial Media and Oman National Survey Authority (NSA) to deliver overview of current activities relating to international geospatial standards, including ongoing work through United Nations initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM).
The NextGEOSS project, a European contribution to GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems), proposes to develop the next generation data hub for Earth Observations, where the users can connect to access data and deploy data-driven applications.
Climate Data Sharing for Urban Resilience - OGC Testbed 11George Percivall
OGC Testbed 11:
Delivering on our commitment to the Climate Data Initiative
In December 2014 the US White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) released a Policy Fact Sheet titled "Harnessing Climate Data to Boost Ecosystem & Water Resilience." The Fact Sheet includes OGC’s commitment to increase open access to climate change information using open standards. Testbed 11 results are now available delivering on that commitment.
The results of this major interoperability testbed contribute to development and refinement of international standards that are critical for the communication and integration of geospatial information. http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/testbed11
• Nine sponsors provided requirements and funding for Testbed 11.
• Thirty organizations participated in Testbed 11 by contributing prototypes, engineering
reports and participating in a scenario driven demonstration of the technical advances Technical results of Testbed 11 relevant to the Climate Data Initiative include:
• Analysis and prediction based on open climate data accessed using open standards
• Making predictive models more accessible with OGC Web Processing Service (WPS)
• Verifying model predictions using mobile operations, in-situ gauges and social media.
Climate adaptation, resilience and security planning based on technology from OGC Testbed 11:
• Estimating geographic extend of coastal inundation in dynamic weather conditions
• Assessing social unrest with displaced population due to climate change
• Integrating spatial and non-spatial models of human geography and resilience
• Predictive models and verifications to support planning and response phases
David Coleman: Challenging Traditional Models, Roles and Responsibilities in ...GSDI Association
GSDI President, Dr David Coleman's presentation at the Joint International Conference onGeospatial Theory, Processing Modeling and ApplicationsToronto, 6 October 2014.
Presentation to for the ISPRS Congress 2012, Melbourne
Over the last decade, standards have played a key role in the expansion of the market for Earth Observation (EO) products and services. Standards become increasingly important as geospatial technologies and markets continue to evolve in an increasingly complex technology ecosystem. OGC and ISPRS work jointly to further the development of this vital information industry.
We continue to see global growth in the supply of geometrically controlled image-based geodata. On the data supplier side, most end-use EO information products use data from multiple EO sources (aerial and satellite) as well as from ground-based sources. On the customer side, customers’ business models involving EO data require easy connections between multiple data suppliers and multiple technology platforms. Typically, new markets create stovepiped, proprietary solutions that persist until market forces create demand for standards that in turn enhance market opportunity. The OGC’s standards meet this demand in the geospatial markets.
OGC leads worldwide in the creation and establishment of standards that allow geospatial content and services to be seamlessly integrated into business and civic processes, the spatial web and enterprise computing. OGC accelerates market assimilation of interoperability research through collaborative consortium processes.
OGC has both domain focused and technology focused activities. For example, the Meteorology & Oceanography Domain Working Group ensures that OGC standards and profiles allow the meteorological community to develop effective interoperability for web services and content across the wider geospatial domain. These needs are met for example by the technology of standards such as netCDF which was brought into the OGC to encourage broader international use and greater interoperability among clients and servers interchanging data in binary form.
Most OGC standards specify open interfaces or encodings that apply to imagery. Some of these are:
o Web Coverage Service (WCS)
o Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS)
o Web Map Service (WMS)
o Geography Markup Language (GML)
o GML in JPEG 2000 Encoding
o OGC Network Common Data Form (NetCDF)
o Sensor Observation Service (SOS)
o Sensor Planning Service (SPS)
o Sensor Model Language Encoding Standard (SensorML).
o Catalogue Service for the WEB (CSW)
A Framework for Geospatial Web Services for Public Health by Dr. Leslie LenertWansoo Im
A Framework for Geospatial Web Services for Public Health
by Leslie Lenert, MD, MS, FACMI, Director
National Center for Public Health Informatics, CCHIS, CDC
June 8 2009 URISA Public Health Conference
uploaded by Wansoo Im, Ph.D.
URISA Membership Committee Chair
http://www.gisinpublichealth.org
David Coleman presentation at SDI Summit 2014, Calgary, Canada, 17-19 Sept 2014GSDI Association
Keynote presentation at Pan-Canadian SDI Summit 2014 by GSDI Association President David Coleman entitled "International SDI Initiatives: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally”. After providing context on the role Canadians played in early land information networking and SDI developments through the 1980s and early 1990s, he described the importance of such transnational and international SDI initiatives as Digital Earth, GEO, OGC & ISO, UN GGIM and — with special emphasis on the GSDI Cookbook and Small Grants Program — the GSDI Association itself.
Presentation given by Chris Higgens at the Annual Infrastructure for Spatial Information in European (INSPIRE) Conference Krakow, Poland. 22 June 2010.
Towards High-Value Datasets determination for data-driven development: a syst...Anastasija Nikiforova
Slides for the talk delivered as part of EGOV-CeDEM-ePart 2023 (EGOV2023) conference, aimed at examining how HVD determination has been reflected in the literature over the years and what has been found by these studies to date, incl. the indicators used in them, involved stakeholders, data-related aspects, and frameworks, which was done by conducting a Systematic Literature Review.
Read the paper here -> https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-41138-0_14
The event presents real-life examples from European organisations that have used the Rulebook for Fair Data Economy to develop data-driven business. The online event was organised on 3 March 2021 by Sitra.
Presentations:
- Jaana Sinipuro, Sitra
- Olli Pitkänen, 1001 Lakes
- Marko Turpeinen, 1001 Lakes
- Lars Nagel, International Data Spaces Association
- Cátia Pinto, Serviços Partilhados do Ministério da Saúde
- Matthias De Bièvre, aNewGovernance
A short introduction to GEO governance, the GEO Work Programme and the GEO community for the FOSS4G audience. Contributions on GEOGLOWS, eShape and GEOHack19 from Julia Wagemann, Valentina Balcan and Diana Mastracci.
Plenary talk on examples of global GEO activities relevant to UN-GGIM regarding the Sendai Framework, Paris Agreement and the United Nations 2030 Agenda
Communications guidance for all GEO members and participating organisations (POs) regarding contributions to the GEO Work Programme, as well as wider involvement in the GEO community.
Multi-party session with Resilience Brokers, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and UN-Habitat. Discussing data, tools and methodologies for implementing systems approach in cities, as well as proposing language on Earth observations to be included in the New Urban Agenda.
S Ramage GEO UN-GGIM HLF Mexico Nov 2017Steven Ramage
Considerations around geospatial approaches for working on the UN 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, including links between different SDGs, civil society participation and standards.
Overview of GEO activities to promote broad open Earth observations data and information, as well as insight into GEO engagement priorities and links to ISPRS.
12. Josh Lieberman, Traverse Technologies – “ Value from the OGC is enabled not just because interoperability projects and test beds take place, but because the OGC has made them possible in the first place. Without the OGC they wouldn’t even have happened. ”
14. Ian Painter, Snowflake Software - “ Sponsors get incredible value for money through access to multiple sets of experts and technologies. It would cost them a lot more in terms of time and money if they were not able to use the OGC process. Participants also benefit from direct feedback for product research. ”
16. Kylie Armstrong , Landgate – “ When you are delivering spatial web services on behalf of 20 government agencies to more than a 1000 organisations running their own spatial systems, you need standards. Using the internationally recognised OGC and ISO standards for both the architecture and web services has been essential to our success. ”
20. Locating international displaced persons Supporting poverty alleviation initiatives Protection from catastrophic loss of records Protection/enhancement of natural resources Improved timeliness and quality of data/services Legal compliance/protection against claims Catalyst for partnerships and information (knowledge) sharing
22. Geospatial Enterprise Integration Maturity Model June 24, 2009 (Revision of White Paper originally published March, 2006 by David Sonnen, John Moeller and David LaBranche)
50. Note: A 7-point scale is used (1: Strongly disagree with the benefits; 7: Strongly agree with the benefits.) Prepared by: Xia (UIUC) & Zhao (UNCC), 2009
51. Standards decision for technology providers Plan A - Pursue standards. Commit resources. Transition products. Work with competitors and partners. Plan B - Continue working in isolation. Keep proprietary control of customers.
55. Standards help us save ➼ Time ➼ Money ➼ Energy ➼ Economies ➼ Lives Eye on Earth Summit Dec 2010, Abu Dhabi
Editor's Notes
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is the only body dedicated to geospatial standards only. However, it works in collaboration with a number of other Standards Development Organisations (SDO), such as IEEE, IETF, NCOIC, OGF, ISO, CEN and OASIS.
The volume of information being exchanged and flowing around the world is phenomenal, but how much of it is open and interoperable?
Access, discovery, sharing and reuse are key to delivering value for business activities underpinned by geospatial data, software and services.
First we need to establish the value that geospatial data, software and services bring to the market as a whole. Then we can start to drill down into communities of practice and then determine the value gained at an organisational level in line with their vision and mission.
How do we place a value on locating international displaced persons, alleviating poverty or saving lives?
Value changes per industry sector or domain and also on an organisation by organisation basis according to their vision and mission.
There are so many inputs today for any practitioner in this domain. How do you weight and assign value to all the different areas?
OGC enables interoperability, which then underpins business activities.
This is what you get as an integral part of OGC membership – it offers vast opportunities, but difficult to measure.
If you tried to undertake the activities that the OGC offers as an integral part of the organisational modus operandi, it would be very expensive for both sponsors – who would have to invest in coordinating and possibly paying multiple organisations to address their specific issues and for participants in areas like test beds and interoperability initiatives – who would have a significant presales cost and would not get the structured feedback or involvement of others.
The cost of setting up test beds or interoperability initiatives without the process and structure offered by the OGC would be crippling for many organisations. It would simply be very expensive for others.
OGC enables interoperability, which then underpins business activities.
Traditional ROI – productivity and cost savings, cost avoidance, etc.
Every event has a knock-on effect, at the most basic and fundamental level this is the loss of life, looking beyond the human aspect then comes the financial impact on areas like insurance and infrastructure redevelopment.
Starting to play more of a role across all our lives because of natural disasters, such as floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.
In addition to the traditional ROI measures, there are those areas where value is more difficult to measure because it is not immediately obvious in monetary or financial terms. However, it may be incredibly important in terms an organisation’s vision or mission.
First we need to establish the value that geospatial data, software and services bring to the market as a whole. Then we can start to drill down into communities of practice and then determine the value gained at an organisational level in line with their vision and mission.
There are some existing models which incorporate or reference geospatial standards.
After some desk research it seemed difficult to find such a thing. This was for all standards, not just geospatial standards.
This is a simple model, but it highlights that there are a number of inputs and outputs that need to be considered. Ideally there would be a model for each community of interest that is then applied at a local or organisational level. This is the objective of the emerging OGC Business Value Working Group.
These savings come first to participants, later to the public
The NASA case study compared two approaches. One using open, OGC standards, the other not using them. The non-OGC approach developed a standard for dataexchange and data content only. Most of the usershad standardized on one software platform and datawere published in a popular file format. This formatwas open in the sense that it was published, but it wasproprietary in the sense that it was controlled by one company rather than by community consensus as set forth in US Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-119 (“Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies: Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities”).
This was something Sir Tim Berners-Lee presented back in 2005 as part of his W3C work. It is still valid today.
This is the challenge we all face whether it is for geospatial data, software and services or related to the necessary standards that underpin and facilitate interoperability in these areas.