Working Group Meeting agendas for the Atlanta TC

Abbreviations:

TC= Technical Committee

DWG = Domain Working Group

SWG = Standards Working Group

MONDAY, September 15

Opening Plenary

• Empire Challenge (EC08) Update (Sam Bacharach)
• OGC Catalogue standard – Issues (Lidia Geitler, Denmark)
• Status update on EPSG database. Roel Nicolai

OAB Closed Session – Geospatial Search Summit

Several months ago the OAB determined that the ability to have a consistent expression for geospatial search – web would be highly beneficial to all communities dealing with web search technology and standards. This Summit will focus on requirements and standards based solutions to geospatial search on the web.

New Member Orientation

Presentation focuses on the structure and processes of the OGC. Goal of the orientation is to provide attendees a fundamental understanding of OGC terminology, policies, and procedures. Greg Buehler

Data Quality DWG

• A summary of our review of the coverage for data quality measures in existing specs
• Any other specs we should review?
• Who here uses these specs (Discuss)
• Comments/omissions/opinions
• Maybe a review of the uncertainty / measurement errors email discussion that went on from Carl.
• Mention that the UncertML document that was presented in Potsdam has been finished and is available for review for interested parties.

GMLJP2 SWG

CRS DWG

• Topic 2 - change request and correction of inconsistencies (Arliss Whiteside)
• URN's in OGC namespace, proposed amendments (Roel Nicolai)
• Topic 19 - General Reference Systems (Arliss Whiteside)
• GeoPDF - alignment with Topic 2 (doc. OGC 08-139 - Patrick Graves)

Decision Support DWG

• ISO 19117 / SLD Harmonization – Dan Gleason
• User Experience Thinking at OGC – Martin Kyle

WCS 1.2

·        WCS output coverage encoding change request, pending document 08-016

• Progress on extension documents to WCS 1.1 Corrigendum 2
• Status of the WCS 1.2 SWG work items listed on the Twicki
• Status of dividing WCS 1.2 into parts

TUESDAY, September 16    

Architecture DWG

• Presentation on the new Place Identifier Architecture submission to ISO, Carl Reed for the NWIP Submission team
• An Overview of the Homeland Security Geospatial Data Model (GDM), Tom McCarty

Catalog DWG

• ebXML RegRep 4: Update and Overview, Farrukh Najmi
• Register or Catalogue? - A Comparison of Standards for Managing Geospatial Metadata, Lidia Gietler
• Recap on "Geospatial Search Summit" to discuss community practice on catalogue search with interest in alignment on geospatial search. Doug Nebert

OWS Common 1.2 SWG

• Open CR Issues
• Review document edits

Coverages DWG

• GALEON Status Update: WCS Client Library Exercises Ben Domenico
• Revision of AS Topic 6/ISO 19123 Open Discussion

Architecture DWG Services Sub-group

• An update  and discussions on both the group's work and on resource extensions to the general feature model by Thomas Usländer.

SWE Common Data Model 1.1 SWG

• Discussion on use of GML 3.2 – Derivation of base types from a different type than AbstractGMLType. SWE data component types are data types (not classes) but an ID is often used to avoid repeating similar type definitions.
• Discussion on mandating a single version of GML (a priori 3.2) in the normative schemas for SWE 1.1
• Discussion on new rules for preserving backward compatibility between revisions
• State of the document: Should UML diagrams match XSD schemas exactly?
• Discussion on models for data stream encoding specification

GeoRM DWG

• GeoRM Domain Model (Martin Kyle)

• How do you like your DRM? Heavy or Lite? Wayne Richards and Chris Body

GML DWG

• GML coverages
• Versioning policy for GML

3DIM DWG (Also on Wednesday)

• Working Group Introductions
• Oracle and 3D Implementations: Demonstration with Q&A

Sensor Web Enablement DWG

·        Standards Working Group Status

• SWE Common (Alex Robin)
• SPS (Ingo Simonis)
• SensorML Charter (Mike Botts)
• Sensor Event Service & Event Pattern Markup Language (Johannes Echterhoff and Thomas Everding)
• SWE Discovery and Peer-to-Peer (Alex Robin)
• Empire Challenge 08 and future (Sam Bacharach)
• SWE for Home Surveillance in Mass Market (“slayer” - Kuo-Yu Chuang)
• 10 Important Lessons about Standards and How they Apply to SWE (Bryan Gorman and Mike Botts)
• O&M v2.0 NWIP to ISO  (David Lemon for Simon Cox)

GeoRM 1.0 SWG

Geosemantics DWG

DocTeam - OGC URN Naming Authority

• Review URN Request for CSW-ebRIM object identifiers in the 'ogc' URN namespace
• Review and discuss ISO document URN approach for possible use in the OGC.
• More schema and namespace goo
• And once again, should we (OGC) begin to post public documents as HTML.

Data Preservation

• Recruitment of new co-chair (10 minutes)
• Review of content packaging problem area, Steve Morris (15 minutes)
• The MEF import and export format, slides from Jeroen Ticheler (15 minutes)
• Other topics and general discussion (20 min.)

WEDNESDAY

3DIM

·        CityGML Next steps to adoption and enhancement

• AECOO-1 Testbed update
• 3D in OWS-6 DSS Thread
• 3D Portrayal initiative update and discussion
• Other projects and issues (Geo-Collada)

Workflow DWG

• Basic Grid Workflow Tools – Satoshi Sekiguchi
• Weather Forecast Use Case – Ben Domenico
• Some Use-Cases for Image Processing Workflows – Michael Gerlek
• Exposition of complex workflows as simple WPS processes – Bastian Schäffer

CUAHSI / Hydrology ad hoc

• The goal of this Ad-hoc group meeting will be to stand up a Hydrology/Ocean Observing Working Group within OGC, that would address application domain interests such as WaterML and ontology harmonization.
• Prof. David Maidment, Univ. of Texas at Austin and Director of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS) project -- will talk about CUAHSI's advances in cataloguing and accessing US federal and state data sources for monitoring and analysing stream flow and water quality data.
• David Lemon & Peter Fitch, CSIRO -- achievements to date and further plans for water observations modeling and web services. 
• David Arctur, OGC -- upcoming workshops at ECMWF and the European Environment Agency to integrate appropriate OGC standards in meteorology. 

OpenLS SWG

SPS SWG

• SPS 2.0 interface discussion
• SPS 2.0 communication patterns
• SPS 2.0 next steps

Mass-Market DWG

• Versioning P&P for mass market originated OGC standards

Joint Advisory Group (ISO-OGC JAG)

·        Status of Joint ISO TC211/OGC Projects  - JAG Secretariat

• Status of joint New Work Item Proposals (NWIPs)  - JAG Secretariat
• Use of UML base models initiated by JRC - JRC
• Harmonization of OGC SLD and ISO 19117 Portrayal  - JAG Co-chair for ISO TC211
• Discussion of JAG Terms of Reference with regards to revising the document - JAG Secretariat

Policy SWG (open by vote of the SWG)

• A presentation by the SWG on 08-131 The Specification Model — Modular specifications, its purpose and status, followed by an open discussion.

D & I DWG

• GeoPDF 2.2 – Patrick Graves

GeoRM

• GeoRM Domain Model (Martin Kyle)
• License Broker Spec (Rüdiger Gartmann)
• Discussion on ccREL/RDFa* (Manu Sporny - Digital Bazaar, Inc)

OpenLS SWG

EC09 Planning Ad Hoc

OAB (open session)

• GML 3.2 schemas – revisions and namespaces.
• URLs for documents – Results of discussion in the DocTeam meeting
• Geosearch Summit Results and Discussion
• OAB election this fall

THURSDAY, September 18

EONRE DWG

EC08 Demo

GML SWG

CITE SC

• Update on Compliance Test Policy document that was recently updated. OGC Staff
• Overview of compliance testing tasks in OWS6. Jen Marcus
• A presentation on compliance test profile development work his team is doing for NGA. Jim Ressler (NGIT)

Closing Plenary

• Oceans Interoperability Experiment: Summary and Findings (Luis Bermudez)
• DHS Programs and requirements for geospatial standards (Bert Coursey)
• CUASI and WaterML (David Maidment)
• DWG and SWG reports