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Subject: The OGC(R) Announces Call for Participation in OWS-4 Testbed
Please see the OWS-4 RFQ
Announcement below:
PRESS
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:
Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org
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April 11, 2006, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Open Geospatial
Consortium
(OGC�) has issued a Request for Quotes/Call for Participation
(RFQ/CFP) for the OGC Web Services, Phase 4 (OWS-4)
Interoperability
Initiative, a testbed to advance OGC's open interoperability
framework
for geospatial capabilities. The RFQ/CFP is available at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/initiatives/?iid=199.
The OWS-4 sponsors are organizations from multiple countries
seeking
open standards for their interoperability requirements:
GeoConnections
(Canada), Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL (US), BAE Systems,
Lockheed Martin Corporation, the US National Aeronautical and Space
Administration (NASA), the US General Services Administration
(GSA),
other major US agencies, the National Technology Alliance, the NATO
C3
Agency, the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, and TeleAtlas NV.
OWS-4
activities are proceeding in coordination with other standards
initiatives in OASIS, IEEE and IAI.
After analyzing the sponsors' input, the OGC Interoperability Team
recommended to the sponsors that the content of the OWS-4
initiative
be organized around the following 7 threads:
- Sensor Web Enablement (SWE): Standards for discovering and
accessing
Web-resident sensors
- Geo Processing Workflow (GPW): Development of GML Application
Schemas and testing OWS in the larger Web service workflow
environment
- Geo Decision Support (GeoDSS): Refining OWS as an open framework
for
DSS
- Geo-Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM): Standards to support
geospatial DRM including underlying security standards.
- Computer Aided Design/Geospatial/Building Information Model
integration (CAD/GIS/BIM)
- OGC Location Services (OpenLS): Extending OGC standards for
Location
Based Services
- Compliance Testing (CITE): Improving tools for testing compliance
and interoperability of products and services that implement OGC
standards
The RFQ/CFP includes details of these threads as well as details of
the bidders' conference, selection process and kickoff. Responses
are
due by May 5, 2006. If your organization is interested in
participating, contact George Percivall at
percivall@opengeospatial.org.
OWS initiatives are part of OGC's Interoperability Program, a
global,
hands-on and collaborative prototyping program designed to rapidly
develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into
OGC's
Specification Program, where they are formalized for public
release.
In OGC's Interoperability Initiatives, international teams of
technology providers work together to solve specific geoprocessing
interoperability problems posed by the Initiative's sponsoring
organizations. OGC Interoperability Initiatives include test beds,
pilot projects, interoperability experiments and interoperability
support services � all designed to encourage rapid development,
testing, validation and adoption of OGC standards.
The OGC�is an international industry consortium of more than 300
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop
publicly
available interface specifications. OpenGIS� Specifications support
interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless
and
location-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications
empower
technology developers to make complex spatial information and
services
accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC
website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org.
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George Percivall
Open Geospatial Consortium
http://www.opengeospatial.org/
E-mail:
percivall@opengeospatial.org
Voice: 1+301-560-6439
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