[OSGeo-Standards] Input required from OSGeo Standards List Members

Tue Aug 31 05:36:22 PDT 2021

Dear Bruce, All,

Greetings.
I consider myself an absolute beginner so please ignore my inexperience.
Please find my responses inline below:

   - Inspiration for subscribing to this list;

I am interested in learning more about open geospatial standards and
subsequently, contribute to its development as I learn. My PhD thesis and
research interests aligns with lidar data processing using deep learning
and currently I am exploring options for doing this in a standardised
format. But as I mentioned earlier, I am just starting in this domain and
hence subscribed to this list to be aware of the latest developments in
geospatial interoperability and standardisation (in the sub-domains of
processing, sharing, compression and visualization).

   - What I want from being a member of this list;

Any opportunity to learn and contribute to this domain.

   - My review of the proposed new OSGeo/OGC MOU;

Thanks to the team for their efforts in drafting the MoU. Out of my sheer
excitement, I volunteered to be a reviewer of the MoU but later I realised
that my inexperience restricts me to contribute much (although it's a great
start for me :)). But from what I understand, I feel the Associate
Membership for the OSGeo will be very much helpful for folks like me. I was
fortunate to be a part of the OSGeo-OGC-ASF Code Sprint and then also
attend the OGC Point Cloud DWG webinar in the past and I believe if this
works out, more such opportunities would open up in the research and
development of new standards and updation of the existing ones.

Thanks!
Kind regards,
Rajat

--
Rajat Shinde
Ph.D. Candidate
Prime Minister's Research Fellow
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
Charter Member - OSGeo
Home <http://home.iitb.ac.in/~rajatshinde> | LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajat-shinde/>

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:31 AM Rob Atkinson <ratkinson at ogc.org> wrote:

> Hi Bruce, et al
>
> Just a heads up that there are a couple of threads of activity which may
> be able to support this work.
>
> first, I am participating on behalf of OGC with OsGEO and ISO reps on
> project to explore interoperability of Glossary content between
> organisations.  This is not generally a "first class concern" - but I
> encourage community input to influence OGC to publish machine readable
> versions of terminology (and improve consistency and cross-referencing
> between various uses of the same or similar terminology).
>
> A key part of this is publication of technical specifications such as data
> models and schemas in a consistent canonical Web-friendly manner (not
> expecting OsGEO community to have the right version of a proprietary UML
> tool to find machine-readable documentation on schema elements for
> example).
>
> A second thread I have been discussing with Codrina Ilie is around better
> describing the OGC (and ISO and potentially wider) ecosystem of standards
> and how they relate.  OGC has me actively designing improved ways of
> achieving this.  For example
>
> http://defs-dev.opengis.net/vocprez/object?uri=http%3A//www.opengis.net/def/docs/10-140r2
>
> shows a range of cross references between standards,  We're also looking
> at deconstructing key standards so the implementable "conformance classes"
> are directly visible and citable, allowing specifications of standards
> conformance to be done at a level that can be used to drive testing (citing
> the containing specification document is not explicit, and citations
> without specifying versions cant be tested)
>
> e.g.
>
>
> http://defs-dev.opengis.net/vocprez/object?uri=http://www.opengis.net/def/docs/15-111r1
>
> General principles (e.g. FAIR) are expressed here:
> https://www.ogc.org/def-server
>
> Happy to hear feedback about potential uses of this information, or other
> things the OGC can do to publish its standards in more accessible ways. For
> OsGEO related matters please cc Codrina
>
>
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> On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 10:56 AM Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Standards List Members,
>>
>> We have approximately 160 members subscribed to this mailing list.
>>
>> I assume that you have subscribed to the Standards list as you have some
>> interest in Open Spatial Standards.
>>
>> We have an excellent opportunity to help shape the future of open spatial
>> standards with the proposed new Memorandum of Understanding between OSGeo
>> and OGC.
>>
>> To date, I have been disappointed at the very limited community input
>> into this process.
>>
>> This is your opportunity to drive what we do with open spatial standards.
>> Don’t wait for others to do the work for you.
>>
>>
>> I call on all list members to provide some feedback to this list on:
>>
>>
>>    - what inspired you to subscribe to this list;
>>    - what you want from being a member of this list; and
>>    - your review of the proposed new OSGeo/OGC MOU (see context below).
>>
>>
>> Please don’t be shy, there are no right or wrong responses!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10 Aug 2021, at 00:55, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone: hope you are all doing well.  Per subject and [1][2], we
>> have been working
>> with OGC to renew our Memorandum of Understanding, and now have a draft
>> (Exhibit A) of
>> the MOU for your review and comment.
>>
>> Please see [3] for your review, comment and input.  Anyone with the link
>> should be able to
>> comment in the document.
>>
>> This is an important time for the updated MOU.  Open Source and Open
>> Standards are
>> natural, healthy and evolving, and this MOU will grow the collaboration
>> between our
>> organizations especially given OGC's increasing focus on developers.
>> Note that the MOU
>> provides OSGeo an Associate Membership as well as the opportunity for
>> input into the next
>> generation of compliance testing (CITE).
>>
>> Input and feedback is requested by Friday, 03 September 2021 at 12h UTC.
>>
>> If there are no major issues, we will put the MOU for approval at the F2F
>> Board meeting following
>> FOSS4G 2021.
>>
>> If you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> On behalf of those involved in updating the MOU (OGC, OSGeo MOU Review
>> Team).
>>
>> ..Tom
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MoU_OGC/Review_2020
>> [2] https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/80
>> [3]
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LNbDCkmjqfOtrUjOLkYNNhKhtPzXI_uCAC4R-l8drbY
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