Late November saw the first Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) meeting to be held in the southern hemisphere take place at the University of Sydney. Attendees gathered for a week of standards and domain working group meetings.
As part of this the CSIRO (Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) sponsored a focus group on geospatial data modelling. The auditorium was packed with people curious to learn more and advance the innovative architecture and frameworks which the CSIRO’s architects have developed for semantic data management.
A framework now exists to enable ISO 19100 geographic information standards to be put to work. The model-driven approach involves crafting UML application schema which inherit the ISO standard patterns then enable the generation of encodings in conforming GML (geography markup language) to create specific information products (especially those transacted as web services).
New Zealand took advantage of all this geo-standards activity down under by inviting Mr Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of OGC to visit Wellington on 6 December. Read More
