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OGC Seeks Input on Next Version of Geography Markup Language - GML(TM)
The Open Geospatial Consortium,
Inc. (OGC®) is inviting the public to offer change requests
for consideration by the OGC Technical Committee on a revision of the
OpenGIS® Geography Markup Language (GML) Encoding Standard. GML
defines a data encoding in XML for geographic data and a gramm...
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OGC and WfMC Partner to Advance Standards Goals
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate in advancing standards-based, interoperable workflow and Web-enabled
geospatial content sharing, modeling and visualization to add...
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OGC Interoperability Days, 3-4 June 2008 in Potsdam
OGC Interoperability Days will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3 and 4, 2008, in Potsdam, Germany. These events will coincide with the OGC Technical Committee meetings, which are being held in Potsdam that week. The first day will be in English and the second day in German.
On Tuesday, Mar...
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OGC and buildingSMART alliance Release RFQ / CFP for AECOO Testbed
The buildingSMART alliance, the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) and Sponsors of the AECOO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Owner and Operator) Testbed have today issued a Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Call for Participation (CFP) for the AECOO-Phase 1 Testbed. The testbed aims to f...
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OGC Announces Another Government Agency Chooses OGC Standards
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) program Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)
is implementing a number of OGC standards. IOOS is a multidisciplinary
system that will provide data and information on the oceans...
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OGC Approves KML as Open Standard
The members of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) today announced the approval of the OpenGIS® KML Encoding Standard (OGC KML), marking KML's
transition into an open standard which will be maintained by the OGC.
Developers will now have a standard approach for using KML to code an...
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OGC Adopts ebRIM Application Profile for Catalogues
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) membership has approved the OASIS ebRIM (electronic business Registry Information Model) application profile of the
OpenGIS® Catalogue Service 2.1.2 standard. The Catalogue Standard
specifies a design pattern that allows for the definition of
in...
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OGC Announces Call for Sponsors and Alliances in Interoperability Initiatives
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(R)) has issued calls for sponsors of two interoperability initiatives: the OGC Web Services, Phase 6 (OWS-6) Testbed, and the OGC Pilot in support of GEOSS. OGC also seeks to establish alliances with standards
bodies having technology relevant to the two initiati...
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