[OSGeo-Standards] FW: Media Digest, Vol 55, Issue 2

[Michael P. Gerlek]

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>    1. OGC Announces Participation in FOSS4G Conference (OGC Press)
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> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:42:21 -0400
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> Subject: [OGC Press Release] OGC Announces Participation in FOSS4G
> 	Conference
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> PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> For information about this announcement, contact:
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> Sam Bacharach
> Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
> Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
> tel: +1-703-352-3938
> sbacharach at opengeospatial.org
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> Wayland, Mass., August 26, 2008 - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
> (OGC?) will participate in the 2008 Free and Open Source Software
> for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference (  http://www.foss4g2008.org/ ) 
> September 29 - October 3, 2008 at Cape Town International Convention 
> Centre, Cape Town, South Africa. FOSS4G 2008 is organized by the Open 
> Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) ( http://www.osgeo.org ) in 
> cooperation with the Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA) (
> http://www.gissa.org.za ).
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> At FOSS4G, an OGC/OSGeo Memorandum of Understanding will be
> highlighted. The two organizations agree to expand collaboration and
> promote the synergy between open standards and open source software in
> the geospatial domain. The OGC, founded in 1994, is the world's
> leading industry organization for geoprocessing standards used by the
> world's providers of geoprocessing software. The OSGeo's goal
> is to encourage the use and collaborative development of community-led
> open source geospatial software projects, most of which depend on open
> standards like those from the OGC.
> 
> Raj Singh, Director of Interoperability Programs at OGC, will discuss
> the open source work of OGC members in the conference's demo
> theater. He will also deliver a paper on "WFS Simple," (
> http://www.ogcnetwork.net/wfssimple ) a candidate standard for
> consideration by the OGC membership. WFS Simple is similar in many
> respects to the OGC's OpenGIS Web Feature Service Interface
> Standard, but it simplifies implementation by excluding certain
> features, and it does not require GML as an output format. This talk
> will discuss how WFS Simple could be important not only for scientific
> data access, but also for mashing up Atom and GeoRSS feeds. Raj Singh
> will also describe an open source Java library for building a WFS
> Simple service that was prototyped in the OGC's Kentucky Landscape
> Census pilot project.
> 
> The OGC? is an international consortium of more than 365
> companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
> universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
> available geospatial standards. OpenGIS? Standards support
> interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless
> and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
> technology developers to make geospatial information and services
> accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
> geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
> http://www.opengeospatial.org.
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