The Open Geospatial Consortium`s Staff and Membership are always developing new information, and ways to share how Geospatial Interoperability matters, and how, through the implementation of OGC`s mission; commerce and governance will be empowered. Here you will find several types of resources to help you along your journey.
FAQs about OGC`s purpose and structure
Internship Project
The OGC has recently developed a resource to link those interested in working on interoperability issues with those who need personnel to do so. The OGC Internship Project provides an electronic bulletin board where students can post their areas of interest and organizations can post their needs. The ultimate goal is to match the needs and goals of these two groups to help move interoperability in the geospatial domain forward.
This resource will enable students seeking careers in the geospatial industry and companies who want to grow interoperable geospatial applications to interact and compare interests in order to meet both the student`s and company`s goals.
Prospective interns simply fill out an online form detailing interests, skills, availability, and include contact information. Institutions submit information describing open positions and the skills required. The student or company may then scan the Internship pages to see if a prospective match exists.
The purpose of the Internship Project is
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To provide a service to OGC members and non-members that helps prospective interns and institutions or companies find good ``fits`` resulting in the advancement of OpenGIS goals
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To bring additional benefits of membership, especially university/research members,
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To provide a sustainable internship program
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To improve the quality of the fit between individual skills and institutional needs.
OGC Network
The OGCNetwork™ helps OGC members and the public engage in discussion, testing, and demonstration of OpenGIS(R) based capabilities. While still in an early stage of development, the OGC Network contains a wealth of education and collaboration resources for technology developers, integrators and users.
The purpose of the OGC Compliance Testing Program is to permit vendors and users to take advantage of the standards that OGC has created. The program provides a process for testing compliance of products to OpenGIS® Implementation Specifications.
OGC compliance tests are available for some but not all OpenGIS Implementation Specifications. OGC is implementing its Compliance Testing Program in phases in step with the maturing of its Implementation Specifications. The current two phases are:
Compliance Testing: This determines that a product implementation of a particular Implementation Specification fulfills all mandatory elements as specified and that these elements are operable. Compliance testing may become more stringent over time, especially as a particular Implementation Specification matures.
For example, a more stringent version may test that a product implementation of a particular Implementation Specification fulfills all mandatory and implemented optional elements as specified and that these elements are operable, accurate (to a reasonable level of measure), and that the elements handle all reasonable cases correctly including errors.
NOTE: Compliance testing WILL NOT ensure, or even test, interoperability of software products. However, as the specifications mature the likelihood of interoperability will be higher.
Interoperability Testing: OGC`s ultimate goal is to provide a process for testing interoperability between compliant products. Interoperability Testing determines that a product implementation of an Implementation Specification interoperates with other product implementations of the same Implementation Specification, different but related Implementation Specification(s), or within a particular computing environment. As envisioned, interoperability testing will be implemented as a service and will not result in the use of OGC marks.
Email Lists
Glossary of Terms
The OGC works in the complex and specialized area of software engineering that concerns itself with the attributes and geometries of features and phenomena on or near the Earth`s surface, and with the many kinds of digital processing employed to make this data useful. To enable efficient and precise communication, every specialty, including this one, has its own special terms and special definitions of ordinary words. Facilitating agreement on definitions of geospatial technology terms - for the sake of ``semantic interoperability`` - is appropriately part of OGC`s mission.
OpenGIS® Cookbooks
OGC Cookbooks are free, online, easy-to-use technical documents for developers, and typically include three chapters: Introduction, Implementations and Applications, and Implementer Experiences
OpenGIS® Demos
OGC Demos are online, live examples of systems that implement OpenGIS® Specifications, or in some cases animations that show how these systems work. Please look and see how interoperable geoprocessing is advancing!
OpenGIS® Public Forum
The Open Geospatial Consortium has stood up a Public forum as a resource for you to post your comments and pose your questions to OGC, about OGC, or involving OGC.
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