Motions from the 91st OGC Technical and Planning Committee Meetings Geneva, Switzerland Contents "The Open Geospatial Consortium and EarthCube White Paper... 2 Vote for OGC Sensor Observation Service 2.0 Hydrology Profile as Best Practice... 2 OWS-10 CCI Hydro Model Interoperability Engineering Report... 2 OWS-10 CCI Provenance Engineering Report... 2 OWS-10 CCI VGI Engineering Report... 3 D&I Document Approval Motion... 3 Urban Planning Charter and Domain Working Group Approval... 3 OWS-10 CCI Ontology Engineering Report... 3 OWS-10 Virtual Global Gazetteer Engineering Report... 3 OWS-10 Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) Provenance Engineering Report... 4 OWS-10 CCI VGI Engineering Report... 4 Dissolve Business Intelligence and Decision Support Domain Working Group... 4 MIME-type specification for Geography Markup Language (GML)... 4 NTS for Time and index for Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS)... 5 OWS-10 Aviation Architecture Engineering Report... 5 OWS-10 Report on Aviation Binding AIXM to Development Tools ER... 5 OWS-10 FIXM GML Schema Engineering Report... 5 OWS-10 Advance Human Factor Based Portrayal of Digital NOTAMs ER... 5
OWS-10 Terrain Data Exchange Engineering Report... 5 OWS-10 Aviation Dissemination of Weather Data Engineering Report... 6 OWS-10 GML for Aviation Conformance Testing Engineering Report... 6 Web Feature Service Temporality Extension Discussion Paper... 6 "The Open Geospatial Consortium and EarthCube White Paper The OGC Members approved release of [11-159] The Open Geospatial Consortium and EarthCube as an OGC White Paper Abstract This paper examines the hypothesis that an OGC-like process could be useful for broader sharing of information in the geosciences. EarthCube aims to create an integrated system to access, analyze and share information that is used by the entire geosciences community. Vote for OGC Sensor Observation Service 2.0 Hydrology Profile as Best Practice The OGC Members approved an electronic vote to recommend release of 14-004r1 OGC Sensor Observation Service 2.0 Hydrology Profile as an OGC Best Practice Document This document is intended to describe a best practice how the SOS 2.0 standard can be applied to server WaterML 2.0 encoded hydrological observations in an interoperable manner. OWS-10 CCI Hydro Model Interoperability Engineering Report The OGC members approved release of 14-048 OWS-10 CCI Hydro Model Interoperability Engineering Report as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This OGC document gives guidelines for enabling interoperability among different hydro data models and services. The demonstration specifically gives out best practices for supporting interoperability among the National Hydrographic Network (NHN) of Canada, the National Hydrographic Dataset Plus (NHD+) of United States, and the OGC HY_Features model developed and proposed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The discussed version of OGC HY_Features was adopted as the mediation bridge model to exchange information among heterogeneous hydrological models. OWS-10 CCI Provenance Engineering Report The Technical Committee recommends that the OGC Plannng Committee approve release of [OGC 14-001] OWS-10 CCI Provenance ER as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: It gives guidelines for capturing provenance information at dataset, feature and attribute level. It uses the W3C PROV standard in geospatial information that can come from different sources and processing steps. It also reviews ISO19115 lineage. The document was elaborated in OWS-10.
OWS-10 CCI VGI Engineering Report The OGC members approved release of [OGC 14-016] OWS-10 Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) VGI Engineering Report as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This OGC Engineering Report describes the approach on integrating Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) into the OWS-10 Cross-Community Interoperability service architecture. It provides an overview of the data sources for VGI as well as related technology. The concept of using a Web Feature Service in combination with a Sensor Observation Service for handling human as sensors is illustrated from an interoperability perspective. The developed data model is presented and illustrated with examples from a VGI platform. D&I Document Approval Motion The OGC Members approve release of [OGC 14-002] OWS-10 Annotations Engineering Report as an OGC Public Engineering Report Abstract: This engineering report gives guidelines for dealing with geospatial annotations in OGC standards. The report proposes a generic data model and a set of mappings into different popular encodings. The approach is applicable to OWS context, GMLJP2 and any other OGC standards that require annotations. Urban Planning Charter and Domain Working Group Approval The OGC Members approved formation of an OGC Urban Planning Domain Working Group and approved the Urban Planning Domain Working Group Charter, to include public access to all the processes in the DWG, including open meetings, email and Wiki. Abstract: The mission of the Urban Planning DWG is to focus on system interoperability standards for data and related processing services for urban design, implementation, and maintenance. OWS-10 CCI Ontology Engineering Report The OGC members approved release of [14-049] OGC OWS-10 Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) Ontology Engineering Report as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This engineering report provides a general examination of ontologies in the context of OGC data modeling, handling, and organization. OWS-10 has started to define a consistent set of ontologies implementing solid theoretical foundations and semantics. The report the provides a definition of a core ontology for representing incident information used by Incident Management Systems (IMS) and mapping symbologies used in the emergency and disaster management domain with the goal to improve interoperability between different IMS symbology sets used across multi-level jurisdiction. Finally, the report addresses ontology mapping between hydrology feature models using SPARQL and OWL2. OWS-10 Virtual Global Gazetteer Engineering Report The OGC Members approved release of [14-029r3] OGC OWS-10 Virtual Global Gazetteer Engineering Report as an OGC Engineering Report
Abstract: The Virtual Global Gazetteer integrates two gazetteers a copy of the USGS gazetteer containing domestic names and a copy of the NGA gazetteer containing non-domestic names (hosted by Interactive Instruments) and provides the capability to link to additional local gazetteers and linked data information, allowing a user to retrieve extended information on locations selected from either of the initial gazetteers. The access to linked data information provided by these gazetteers was achieved by GeoSPARQL enabling these gazetteers using semantic mapping components. OWS-10 Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) Provenance Engineering Report The OGC Members approved release of [OGC 14-001] OWS-10 Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) Provenance Report as a public OGC Engineering Report Abstract: It gives guidelines for capturing provenance information at dataset, feature and attribute level. It uses the W3C PROV standard in geospatial information that can come from different sources and processing steps. It also reviews ISO19115 lineage. The document was elaborated in OWS-10. OWS-10 CCI VGI Engineering Report The Workflow DWG recommends that the OGC Technical Committee approve release of [OGC 14-016] OWS-10 Cross Community Interoperability (CCI) Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Engineering Report as a public OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This OGC Engineering Report describes the approach on integrating Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) into the OWS-10 Cross-Community Interoperability service architecture. It provides an overview of the data sources for VGI as well as related technology. The concept of using a Web Feature Service in combination with a Sensor Observation Service for handling human as sensors is illustrated from an interoperability perspective. The developed data model is presented and illustrated with examples from a VGI platform. Dissolve Business Intelligence and Decision Support Domain Working Group The OGC Members approved dissolving the Business Intelligence and Decision Support (BIDS) DWG. Reason: The work of other OGC Domain Working Groups (DWGs), such as the Workflow DWG, has assumed the work activities of the BIDS DWG. MIME-type specification for Geography Markup Language (GML) The OGC Members approved starting an electronic vote to approve the revised MIME-type specification for GML, after it has been posted to the OGC Pending Documents list for 3 weeks, as an OGC Policy When approved, the document will be submitted to IETF for inclusion in the IANA register of MIME-types.
NTS for Time and index for Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS) The OGC Members approved starting an electronic vote to approve 13-102r2 (Name Type Specification Time and index coordinate reference system definitions) as an OGC Policy. OWS-10 Aviation Architecture Engineering Report The OGC Members approved release of OGC 14-008 OWS-10 Report on Aviation Architecture as a public OGC Engineering Report. Abstract: This document is a deliverable of the OGC Web Services (OWS) Initiative - Phase 10 (OWS-10). The report describes the architecture that was implemented in the OWS-10 Aviation thread. Additionally, it provides descriptions of all software components involved in the Aviation architecture as well as a dedicated chapter focusing on the evaluation and design of FIXM 2.0. Here, a special focus lies on the integration into the data provisioning components, namely the Web Feature and Event Services. OWS-10 Report on Aviation Binding AIXM to Development Tools ER The OGC members approved release of OGC 14-007 OWS-10 Report on Aviation Binding Aeronautical Information exchange Model (AIXM) to Development Tools as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This document is a deliverable of the OGC Web Services (OWS) Initiative - Phase 10 (OWS-10). The report provides a summary of the work carried out regarding the creation and evaluation of generated data bindings for the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) for established programming languages. OWS-10 FIXM GML Schema Engineering Report The OGC Members approved release of OGC 14-037 OWS-10 Flight Information exchange Model (FIXM) GML Schema as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This report provides guidance for implementing the Flight Information Exchange Model (FIXM) using the same best practice as the Aeronautical Information Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Information Exchange Model (WXXM) by adopting ISO and OGC standards. The report is aimed at system and client developers that shall use the FIXM data encoding for the exchange of flight information. OWS-10 Advance Human Factor Based Portrayal of Digital NOTAMs ER The OGC Members approved release of OGC 14-039 OWS-10 Advance Human Factor Based Portrayal of Digital Notice to Airmen (NOTAMs) as a public OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This document provides the result of the investigation that was made over the 10th test bed of the OGC to assess the compliance between the OGC standards and the guidelines provided by the SAE in their latest published document regarding portraying of NOTAMs OWS-10 Terrain Data Exchange Engineering Report The OGC Members approved release of OGC 14-006 OWS-10 Terrain Data Exchange as an OGC Engineering Report
Abstract: This document is a deliverable of the OGC Web Services (OWS) Initiative - Phase 10 (OWS-10). Its contents cover the summary of the work carried out regarding the recommendations for the exchange of terrain data. OWS-10 Aviation Dissemination of Weather Data Engineering Report The OGC Members approved release of OGC14-038 OWS-10 Aviation Dissemination of Weather Data as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This OGC document provides an analysis of the mapping between the NOAA Web Gridded Document Service (WGDS) and the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) and describes an adapter which translates WCS 2.0 requests to WGDS requests and then translates WGDS responses to WCS 2.0 responses. OWS-10 GML for Aviation Conformance Testing Engineering Report The Aviation DWG recommends that the OGC Technical Committee approve release of OGC 14-000 OWS-10 GML for Aviation Conformance Testing as an OGC Engineering Report Abstract: This document summarizes technical work relating to the enhancement of the GML 3.2.1 conformance test suite in accord with the requirements in the OWS-10 RFQ, Annex B, section 6.3.6: GML for Aviation Compliance Test Suite + GML for Aviation Conformance Testing ER. The essential aim is to advance compliance with respect to the use of GML geometry representations in aviation (AIXM) data. Web Feature Service Temporality Extension Discussion Paper The Aviation DWG recommends that the OGC Technical Committee approve release of OGC 12-027r3 Temporality Extension as the revision of OGC Discussion Paper 12-027r2 Abstract: This discussion paper provides a proposal for a temporality extension for the WFS 2.0 and FES 2.0 standard. It is based on the work of and experiences made in several OWS test beds, in particular OWS-7, OWS-8 and OWS-9, Aviation threads and discussions at the 2011 OGC TC meeting in Brussels, Belgium. It partially replaces and advances the document OWS-8 Aviation: Guidance for Retrieving AIXM 5.1 data via an OGC WFS 2.0.