EC Commissioner for Research to Speak At OGC Meeting.Business/Technology Editors WAYLAND, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2001 OGC OGC Office of Government Commerce (UK government) OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC Office of the General Counsel OGC Open GIS Consortium, Inc. , Inc. (the Open GIS Consortium) announced today that Mr. Phillipe Busquin, the European Commission's Commissioner for Research, will be the main speaker at the OGC Evening Reception on April 4 at the Colonster Castle in Liege liege In European feudal society, an unconditional bond between a man and his overlord. Thus, if a tenant held estates from various overlords, his obligations to his liege lord, to whom he had paid “liege homage,” were greater than his obligations to the other , Belgium. This reception is part of OGC's program of Technical Committee and Planning Committee planning committee n (in local government) → comité m de planificación meetings scheduled for 2 - 6 April in Liege, and hosted by IONIC Software, an OGC member company. Mr. Busquin is one of 20 Commissioners on the EC and is the individual who oversees all of the EC's research programs. His responsibilities include: European co-operation inside the European Union's research programs, research conducted by the European Union's Joint Research Center (JRC JRC abbr. Junior Red Cross ), and the development of research policies and strategies. This event offers an exciting opportunity for multinational discussion of ways to promote the adoption and use of OGC's OpenGIS geoprocessing interoperability specifications throughout Europe, and with other nations around the globe. Private sector, government, and university members of OGC have cooperated in a seven-year international effort to establish open software interfaces that enable transparent communication of geographic information between diverse information systems. Previously, digital communication of such information has been obstructed by complexities related to different earth coordinate systems and map projections and incompatible and often proprietary data formats and processing approaches. OGC's success in developing consensus-based solutions to these technical obstacles has begun to impact research, commerce, government, consumers, and citizens. Mr. Busquin's talk is expected to focus on the benefits of geospatial information and technology interoperability on European Commission European Commission, branch of the governing body of the European Union (EU) invested with executive and some legislative powers. Located in Brussels, Belgium, it was founded in 1967 when the three treaty organizations comprising what was then the European Community sponsored programs. There will be a press conference in the morning on April 4 to inform members of the media about OGC's work and the significance of this event. Details on OGC meetings can be found at http://www.opengis.org/events/nexttc.htm. Information on Mr. Busquin can be obtained at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/index_en.htm Reception schedule A reception line will be followed by dinner at 7:00 PM. During dinner, the Rector of the University of Liege, Professor Willy Legros, will make introductory remarks and will welcome the group to the University. After dinner, David Schell, OGC's president, and Mr. Ulrich Nuenfinger, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SICAD Geomatics Geomatics is the discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering of geographic information, or spatially referenced information. Overview The term "Geomatics" refers to:
Other invitees to the reception include: Jean Meyer-Roux of the Joint Research Center, senior officials from the US Geological Survey The term geological survey can be used to describe both the conduct of a survey for geological purposes and an institution holding geological information. A geological survey , the European Space Agency European Space Agency (ESA), multinational agency dedicated to the promotion, for exclusively peaceful purposes, of cooperation among European states in space research and technology. , and the American Meteorology meteorology, branch of science that deals with the atmosphere of a planet, particularly that of the earth, the most important application of which is the analysis and prediction of weather. Society. About OGC OGC is an international industry consortium of over 200 companies, government agencies and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geoprocessing specifications. OpenGIS Specifications establish common interfaces that "geo-enable" the Web and mainstream IT, enabling technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengis.org/. About Ionic IONIC Software is an experienced software company with large expertise in the development of Java components to create the most innovative, flexible and interoperable distributed applications. IONIC team has a worldwide recognition as the very best in the industry, with unique expertise in distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. and Java Components for Web Mapping. Visit IONIC at http://www.ionicsoft.com. |
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