[ESIP-all] FYI: OGC Calls for Participation in Major Interoperability Testbed

[Nadine Alameh]

Hi All,

This OGC call may be of interest to the ESIP membership. Let me know if you
have any questions or need additional information.

Thanks
Nadine

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Nadine Alameh, Ph.D.
Director, Interoperability Programs
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/contact>

E-mail: nalameh at opengeospatial.org
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org> 
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The OGC: Making location count ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
info at opengeospatial.org <mailto:info at opengeospatial.org>


22 February 2012. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) has issued a Request
for Quotations/Call for Participation (RFQ/CFP) to solicit proposals in
response to requirements for the OGC Web Services, Phase 9 (OWS-9) Testbed
(http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-9
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/ows-9> ).

The RFQ/CFP is available at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/86
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/requests/86> .

Responses are due by 5 pm EST on April 6, 2012.

A bidders’ teleconference will be held on March 9, 2012. More information
will
be available at the URL above.

The Point of Contact is Nadine Alameh: techdesk at opengeospatial.org
<mailto:techdesk at opengeospatial.org> .

The OWS-9 sponsors are:

-   AGC (Army Geospatial Center, US Army Corps of Engineers)
-   CREAF-GeoViQua-EC (CREAF is the European Center for Research in Ecology
and
Forestry Applications)
-   EUROCONTROL
-   FAA (US Federal Aviation Administration)
-   GeoConnections - Natural Resources Canada
-   Lockheed Martin Corporation
-   NASA (US National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
-   NGA (US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency)
-   USGS (US Geological Survey)

OWS-9 builds on the outcomes of prior OGC initiatives
(http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos
<http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos> ) and is organized around the
following threads:

-   Aviation: Develop and demonstrate the use of the Aeronautical
Information
Exchange Model (AIXM) and the Weather Information Exchange Model (WXXM) in
an
OGC Web Services environment, focusing on support for several Single
European
Sky ATM Research (SESAR) project requirements as well as FAA's Aeronautical
Information Management (AIM) and Aircraft Access to SWIM (System Wide
Information Management) (AAtS) requirements.

-   Cross-Community Interoperability (CCI): Build on the CCI work
accomplished
in OWS–8 by increasing interoperability within communities sharing
geospatial
data, focusing on semantic mediation, query results delivery, data
provenance
and quality and Single Point of Entry Global Gazetteer.

-   Security and Services Interoperability (SSI): Investigate 5 main
activities: Security Management, OGC Geography Markup Language (GML)
Encoding
Standard Application Schema UGAS (UML to GML Application Schema) Updates,
Web
Services Façade, Reference Architecture Profiling, and Bulk Data Transfer.

-   OWS Innovations: Explore topics that represent either new areas of work
for
the Consortium (such as GPS and Mobile Applications), a desire for new
approaches to existing technologies to solve new challenges (such as the OGC
Web Coverage Service (WCS) work), or some combination of the two.

-   Compliance & Interoperability Testing & Evaluation (CITE): Develop a
suite
of compliance test scripts for testing and validation of products with
interfaces implementing the following OGC standards: Web Map Service (WMS)
1.3
Interface Standard, Web Feature Service (WFS) 2.0 Interface Standard,
Geography
Markup Language (GML) 3.2.1 Encoding Standard, OWS Context 1.0 (candidate
encoding standard), Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) standards, Web Coverage
Service
for Earth Observation (WCS-EO) 1.0 Interface Standard, and TEAM (Test,
Evaluation, And Measurement) Engine Capabilities.

The RFQ/CFP includes details of these threads as well as details on
participation eligibility, selection process and kickoff workshop
information.

OGC testbeds, pilot projects and interoperability experiments are part of
the
OGC Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on collaborative prototyping
program designed to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate
standards into the OGC Specification Program, where they are formalized for
public release.

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 440 companies,
government
agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a
consensus
process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC Standards
support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and
location-based services, and mainstream IT. Visit the OGC website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/ <http://www.opengeospatial.org/> .





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