 OGC to create Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group; Public Comment Sought on Draft CharterFebruary 3rd, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
New SWG will develop an Agriculture Information Model that will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to create an Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group (AIM SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by February 23, 2023. The purpose of the AIM SWG is to develop, publish and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of information in the Agriculture Domain, with emphasis on the re-use of generic OGC standards as appropriate. AIM will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange by defining the required data elements, including concepts, properties, and relationships relevant to agriculture applications, as well as their associated semantics/meaning for information exchange. OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft CharterFebruary 1st, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The GeoDCAT SWG aims to separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT, called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile, GeoDCAT-AP.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of forming a new GeoDCAT Standards Working Group (SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by February 22, 2023. The purpose of the SWG is to revise, publish, and maintain GeoDCAT – a spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT Recommendation – and provide guidance about its use and further specialization. The larger geospatial community will benefit from the standardization of descriptions of geospatial data and access services in DCAT-based data catalogs. DCAT, a vocabulary to describe datasets and services, is the primary means to catalog datasets on the web. Some basic temporal and geographic properties have been adopted within DCAT v2 and planned v3, however these do not address the full range of requirements as identified in the 2019 OGC GeoDCAT-AP Discussion paper. Read the rest of OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter OGC seeks Public Comment on v1.1 of OGC API – Environment Data Retrieval StandardJanuary 27th, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The OGC API – EDR Standard makes it easier to efficiently access a wide range of geospatial or spatiotemporal data through a uniform, well-defined, simple Web interface.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) seeks public comment on the candidate Version 1.1 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval (EDR) Standard. Comments are due by February 27, 2023. Read the rest of OGC seeks Public Comment on v1.1 of OGC API – Environment Data Retrieval Standard OGC to form new GeoParquet Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft CharterJanuary 26th, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet to serve as an efficient cloud-native vector data format.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of forming a new GeoParquet Standards Working Group (SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by 15 February, 2023. The OGC GeoParquet SWG will work to advance the GeoParquet encoding format to an OGC Encoding Standard for cloud-native vector data. GeoParquet adds geospatial types to Apache Parquet, described by Apache as “an open source, column-oriented data file format designed for efficient data storage and retrieval. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance to handle complex data in bulk.” For an introduction to the GeoParquet format, see this blog post. OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working GroupJanuary 20th, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
New OGC DWG will help the Location communities collaborate and contribute expertise into building and growing the open Metaverse.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce the formation of the OGC Geo For Metaverse Domain Working Group (DWG), which will serve as a forum for the collective geospatial expertise of the OGC community to gather to help build and grow the open Metaverse. The group is open to OGC Members and non-members alike. The Metaverse is perhaps the ultimate distributed digital twin of the world. It has the potential to represent everything in the world alongside imagined spaces. The challenges to Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), technologists, artists, and society are huge, but the payoff is believed to be equally tremendous. The Metaverse is not a single thing but, like the internet, is a collection of platforms and technologies: a world of objects that can be navigated and interacted with. Read the rest of OGC Announces new Geo for Metaverse Domain Working Group OGC Calls For Participation in its next Pilot to improve Disaster Management and ResponseJanuary 19th, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
New Pilot will bridge technology and stakeholder engagement to reduce disaster preparation time and accelerate our ability to transform data from observation into decision.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is Calling For Participants in the OGC Disaster Pilot 2023. Funding is available. Responses are due by February 17, 2023. The goal of the Disaster Pilot 2023 is to further improve the ability of key decision makers and responders to discover, manage, access, qualify, share, and exploit location-based information in support of disaster preparedness & response as well as the full cycle of multi-hazard disaster management. OGC Compliance Certification Available for v1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval StandardJanuary 10th, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
OGC compliance provides confidence that a product will seamlessly integrate with other compliant solutions, regardless of the vendor that created them.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is excited to announce that the Executable Test Suite for version 1.0 of the OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval Standard has been approved by the OGC Membership. Products that implement the Standard and pass the tests in the ETS can now be certified as OGC Compliant. Implementers of the Standard are invited to validate their products using the new test suite, available on the OGC validator tool. OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working GroupDecember 19th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The Open Geospatial Consortium is seeking public comment on the creation of a GeoDataCube Standards Working Group (SWG). The GeoDataCube SWG will enhance the interoperability between existing datacube solutions, simplify the interaction with different datacubes, and facilitate the integration of data from multiple datacube sources. By following a user-centric approach, the SWG will develop solutions that meet the needs of scientists, application developers, and API integrators. The goal of the OGC GeoDataCube SWG is to create a new API specifically to serve the core functionalities of GeoDataCubes such as access and processing and to define exchange format recommendations, profiles, and a metadata model. The SWG also aims to analyze usability of already existing Standards and identify use cases. Similar to other OGC APIs, the GeoDataCube SWG will create this new standard from existing building blocks such as existing geospatial Standards, previous OGC innovation initiatives, and other developer resources in a very use-case driven approach, i.e., with a small core and possible extensions. This will allow for interoperability across future OGC Standards. Read the rest of OGC Seeks Public Comment on Creating new GeoDataCube Standards Working Group OGC seeking public comment on update to GeoSPARQL StandardDecember 12th, 2022 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the adoption of GeoSPARQL v1.1 as an OGC Standard. OGC GeoSPARQL extends W3C’s SPARQL to provide a geographic query language for RDF data. Comments are due by 11 January, 2023. Version 1.1 of GeoSPARQL extends the originally published standard in 2012 that is used for representation and querying of geospatial linked data for the Semantic Web in new ways. SPARQL is one of several key technologies that enable the “Semantic Web” or “Web of data,” where data is published to the Web so that it can be accessed, shared, and reused across applications and users. In other words, in a manner aligned with the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). SPARQL specifications provide languages and protocols to query and manipulate RDF graph content on the Web or in an RDF store. Other technologies identified by the W3C Semantic Web Activity as being key to the Semantic Web include the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model, which provides a directed, labeled graph data format for representing data on the Web, and the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language, which provides an ontology for the consistent naming and identification of data. The OGC GeoSPARQL draft specification complements these technologies by providing a geographic query language for RDF data that contains a spatial component. Read the rest of OGC seeking public comment on update to GeoSPARQL Standard |
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OGC seeks Public Comment on FlatGeobuf becoming a Community Standard
FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that works well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data.
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to adopt FlatGeobuf as an official OGC Community Standard. Comments are due by March 13, 2023.
FlatGeobuf is a performant binary encoding for geographic data that can hold a collection of Simple Features. Because of its simple core design and efficient I/O handling, FlatGeobuf can work well as a “cloud native” lossless format for vector data. FlatGeobuf is based on flatbuffers.
FlatGeobuf was designed to be: suitable for storing and accessing large volumes of static data; significantly faster than legacy formats; unconstrained by size limitations for contents or metainformation, and; suitable for streaming/random access. No other current format combines good performance and “cloud native” design.
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