Standards play an important role in ensuring quality solutions for governments and businesses around the world. However did you know that when it comes to OGC standards you can request certified compliance for those solutions? An example where this used is the standards recommended by the Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Standards Working Group in the United States, which includes standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC has certified hundreds of products and maintains an online database with detailed information about the products that implement and comply with OGC standards. The workshop will provide resources and tools that are required to understand the importance and verification of OGC Compliance. Topics include: - Benefits of acquiring OGC compliant products, as opposed to products that implement OGC standards but have not been certified as being OGC compliant - Guidance regarding language to use in specifying requirements for OGC compliant products in software acquisition (procurement) documents - Verification process to access that a product is compliant - Overview of the testing and compliance procedure - Testing community profiles

1. WORKSHOP ON COMPLIANCE
Dr. Luis Bermudez
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
GeoBuiz Summit 2016
April 27, 2016
Copyright: 2016, Open Geospatial Consortium

2. Outline
• Why Standards?
• The Open Geospatial Consortium
• Why do we need compliance?
• Benefits of compliance for solution providers and buyers
• How do we verify compliance?
• Process overview
• Community compliance solution
• Online demo

3. Why Standards?

4. Technology improves our cities and our lives

5. The glue of integration
"...integration is key. Using standard data
structures and formats all data about any
object of interest any person, place or
thing can be easily shared with and
accessed by anyone with the need to
know..."
Letitia A. Long, Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, October 4,
2013, KMI Interview

6. Global Solutions
"Standardization is one of the essential
building blocks of the Information
Society. There should be particular
emphasis on the development and
adoption of international standards ..."
The Declaration of Principles WSIS-03/GENEVA/DOC/0004 concluded in
paragraph 44, from the first phase of the World Summit on the Information
Society, Geneva, December 10 to 12 2003.

7. Transparency and Openness
"Governments like to say they can publish
to OGC KML instead of Google KML ...
everyone has confidence we won’t take
advantage of the format or change it in a
way that will harm anyone ..."
Michael Weiss-Malik, Google KML product manager

8. The OGC Overview

9. Open Geospatial Consortium
• Funded in 1994
• Voluntary consensus (500+ members)
• Standards organization (40+ free available standards)
• Leads the development of standards for geospatial and location based
services.

10. Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
Mission: To serve as a global forum for the collaboration of developers and
users of spatial data products and services, and to advance the development
of international standards for geospatial interoperability.

11. OGC in Policy Worldwide
• National level policy and legislation
• European INSPIRE Directive
• Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
• European Space Agency
• Defense and Intelligence: NGA, NATO, ARMY
• Sub-national level: Delhi, Abu Dhabi, Western

12. What does the OGC as an entity provides?
• An agreed upon consensus process
• to encourage effectiveness and efficiency
• for defining, testing, documenting, and approving
specifications
• Staff knowledge, expertise and support to work with the members to
facilitate the consensus process
• A comprehensive communications infrastructure
• A consensus-based forum for conflict resolution

13. Members

14. Membership levels
• Strategic
• Principal
• Technical
• Associate

15. Industry Members

16. OGC Alliance Partners

17. Implementations

18. OGC Structure

20. Why Compliance?

22. OGC Standards

23. Implementations are not always perfect
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25. Need to accurately verify implementations

26. Increase confidence of solution providers
"Achieving OGC certification is extremely
important to us as an organization - we
are proud to have more than 20 products
compliant with OGC standards."
Stan Tilman | Hexagon Geospatial

27. Create more business opportunities for
solution providers

28. Benefits for buyers of solutions
Avoid the spaghetti mess: Minimize the delay, cost, frustration of reworking
disparate implementations.

30. How do we verify compliance?

32. Compliance Program
• Policies and process
• Community support
• Free open source tools

33. How can we verify it?
• Make an online request. Will take you 30 minutes.
• Will respond in 1 week- 1 month.

34. How can we verify it?
No. I'm kidding!

35. Easy real time online verification of OGC
compliant products
http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/compliant

36. Community
• About 300 members participate in the forum:
cite-forum@lists.opengeospatial.org
• Each test suite has a lead
• OGC has alliances with groups supporting the test (answering
questions, fixing bugs, etc.)

37. Forum

38. What is the process to get certified?

40. Available tests

41. How to ask for compliance?
“ Purchaser seeks geospatial products
that provide maximum interoperability
with purchaser’s and data sharing
partner’s systems. To accomplish this,
purchaser seeks to make maximum use of
open standards provided by the Open
Geospatial Consortium (OGC), ISO ...”
OGC Compliance Overview - Guide for Software Acquisition White paper
(15-002r5) http://docs.opengeospatial.org/wp/15-002r5/15-002r5.html

42. What about community profiles?

43. Testing community profiles
• Communities can create their own test (TestNG or XSLT - Compliance
Testing Language)
• Invoke tests: GML 3.2.1 with your own schemas

44. Example testing GML INSPIRE profiles

45. Online Demo

46. OGC compliance web landing page
http://www.opengeospatial.org/compliance
• Video
• Benefits
• Link to policies
• Link to fees
• Link to testing facility

47. Verifying implementing and compliant products
http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/stats
• look by implementation
• look by product
• check compliance details

48. Testing facility
Production: http://cite.opengeospatial.org/teamengine/
Beta: http://cite.opengeospatial.org/te2

49. Open source code
Validation tool (TEAM Engine) source code
Test code repositories
Building the testing facility on the cloud

50. Contact information
Luis Bermudez
lbermudez@opengeospatial.org
Twitter: @berdez
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bermudez