The ISO/TC 211 community looks forward to the OGC Member Meetings in Delft later this month.

We have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with OGC since both organisations were founded within months of each other almost thirty years ago; this relationship was formalised in 1999.

Of course, most of the time we work asynchronously and in virtual meetings, but project teams can often make great strides forward when we have the chance to meet together, and this month’s meeting week will include several meetings to progress joint work:

Land Admin special session

We’ve been working with OGC and others for some years to update ISO 19152 Land Administration Domain Model, and this year OGC will be leading Part 6 Implementation aspects. Holding the meeting in TU Delft is special to, as they have contributed a lot to the development of LADM for many years.

Analysis Ready Data standards working group

This is a joint project between OGC and ISO/TC 211 to formalise and generalise the work done by CEOS on specifying what is meant by data being “analysis ready”. On the ISO side, it is registered as ISO 19176-1 Analysis ready data — Part 1: Framework and fundamentals.

Europe Forum

We worked with OGC and the European Commission on Input to EU Data Spaces to help publishers see how to use existing standards to publish into these new general data environments.

Other overlaps

• Discrete Global Grid System domain working group, cooperating as ISO 19170.
• GeoDCAT standards working group, which will influence the future of geospatial metadata.
• Data Quality domain working group has a strong interest in ISO 19157 Data quality. OGC will host the Data quality measures register being defined in ISO 19157-3.
• Observational data special session: where next after publishing the revised joint ISO 19156 Observations, measures, and samples?
• Agriculture domain working group, as we strengthen our relationship with ISO’s new TC 347 Data-driven agrifood systems
• OGC API standards working groups as we have fast tracked OGC API Features as ISO 19168 Geospatial API for features and are working to fast track OGC API Tiles as ISO 19177 Geospatial API for tiles.

We look forward to a good presence as many of our nominated experts are also members of OGC.