OGC(R)Offers Online Multimedia Presentations of Web Services Initiative.WAYLAND, Mass. -- 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 OGC Office of Government Commerce (UK government) OGC Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC Office of the General Counsel OGC Open GIS Consortium, Inc. ) announces the availability of two online multimedia demonstrations documenting the milestones achieved in the OGC Web Services Phase 3 Initiative, (OWS-3). The focus of the presentations is to share the OWS-3 goals and to provide a synopsis of the final demonstration. The presentations are available as interactive Flash and Web-streamed video and illustrate the use of a variety of draft and approved OpenGIS(R)standards in an emergency response to a fictitious wildfire threat in Southern California. The presentations are available at http://www.opengeospatial.org/demo/ows3/ The interactive demonstration uses the Macromedia Flash player to show short movies of client applications that illustrate the use of draft and existing OpenGIS Specifications in a variety of software clients in response to a toxic release caused by a wildfire. Among the topics addressed are catalog services, digital rights management, Web mapping and sensor services. The user can select specific scenes to watch via a menu or use an index to find specific topics. The 14 minute video, available in Windows Media, Real Player, and Quicktime formats, introduces the role the OGC and its Web Service Initiatives play in the important goal of geospatial interoperability. It dramatizes the wildfire scenario illustrating how the technology drives the actions of dispatchers and response personnel in an emergency operations center The Emergency Operations Center, or EOC, is a central command and control facility responsible for carrying out the principles of emergency preparedness and emergency management, or disaster management functions at a strategic level in an emergency situation, and ensuring , in vehicles and in the field. Thirteen/WNET New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of produced the presentations with the support of Rosettex Technology and Ventures Group. OGC launched OWS-3 in April 2005 and the final demonstration of capabilities were presented in October 2005. Participants worked in the following areas: --Common Architecture --Sensor Web Enablement (SWE SWE Sweden SWE Society of Women Engineers SWE Snow Water Equivalent (snowpack measure) SWE Software Engineer SWE Society of Wine Educators (Washington, DC) SWE Solar Wind Experiment ) --Geo-Decision Support Services (GeoDSS) --Geo-Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM) --Open Location Services (OpenLS) Initiative sponsors included BAE Systems, IONIC Software, GeoConnections (Canada), Lockheed Martin, MAGIC Services Initiative, National Aeronautic aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau and Space Administration (NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. ), Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville. , NAVTEQ, Questerra, US Geological Survey (USGS USGS United States Geological Survey (US Department of the Interior) ) and other organizations. Forty-five OGC member organizations contributed to OWS-3 developments. OWS-3 is dedicated to memory and contributions of John Vincent. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability Program (IP) is a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping program for rapid development of proven candidate specifications under consideration for consensus adoption and public release by the OGC Specification Program. The OGC is an international industry consortium of more than 300 companies, government agencies 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-based services, and mainstream IT. The specifications empower technology developers to make complex spatial information and services accessible and useful with all kinds of applications. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org. |
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