Clemens Portele Receives OGC's Gardels Award.WAYLAND, Mass. -- At the July meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international voluntary consensus standards organization. In the OGC, more than 330 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations worldwide collaborate in an open consensus process encouraging development and , Inc. (OGC) in Paris, France, Clemens Portele received the OGC's ninth annual Kenneth D. Gardels Award. The Gardels Award, a gold medallion, is awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to advance OGC's vision of geospatial information fully integrated into the world's information systems. Clemens Portele of interactive instruments GmbH, Germany has been an active participant in the OGC since October 2000. He has contributed significantly to the success of the OGC's cooperative endeavors with two other standards organizations, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. and the Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF). He is chair of the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial InfoRmation in Europe) Data Specifications Drafting Team in Europe and he has been a major proponent of geospatial standards in Germany. He has been an important contributor in projects with the European Union Satellite Centre The European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) was set up in 2002 in order to replace the Western Union Satellite Centre and thus represents a part of the transfer of functions from the Western European Union (WEU) to the European Union (EU), and more specifically to and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, and in Sixth Framework Programme The Sixth Framework Programme (abbreviated FP6) was the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development from 2002 till 2006 set up by the European Union (EU) in order to fund and promote European research and technological development. funded projects like ORCHESTRA (Open Architecture and Spatial Data Infrastructure A Spatial Data Infrastructure or SDI is a framework of spatial data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. for Risk Management). A main author of the OpenGIS[R] Geography Markup Language The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transactions on the Internet. Specification v3 (GML), Clemens also developed an open source tool for using and creating GML application schemas Geography Markup Language provides the basis for domain- or community-specific "Application Schemas", which in turn support data interoperability within a community of interest. Application schemas are normally designed using ISO 19103 conformant UML, and then the GML Application created that is recognized as key enabler for broad market uptake of GML. Mark Reichardt, president of OGC, said, "Clemens Portele truly deserves this award. He has been a prolific technical contributor in the OGC's Technical Committee and Interoperability Program, and without his advocacy OGC would not have come as far as it has in Europe and in the larger standards world." The award is given annually in memory of Kenneth Gardels, a founding director of OGC and OGC's former director of academic programs. Mr. Gardels coined the term "Open GIS," and devoted his life to the humane and democratic uses of geographic information systems. He died in 1999. The OGC[R] is an international industry consortium of more than 340 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available interface specifications. OpenGIS Specifications support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location services, and mainstream IT. They empower developers to make complex spatial information and services useful with all kinds of applications. See http://www.opengeospatial.org. |
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