Abstract
The OGC Interoperability Program is a source of innovation in the development of open standards. The approach to innovation is based on hands-on; collaborative engineering leading to more mature standards and implementations. The process of the Interoperability Program engages a community of sponsors and participants based on an economic model that benefits all involved. Each initiative begins with an innovative approach to identify interoperability needs followed by agile software development to advance the state of technology to the benefit of society. Over eighty initiatives have been conducted in the Interoperability Program since the breakthrough Web Mapping Testbed began the program in 1999. OGC standards that were initiated in Interoperability Program are the basis of two thirds of the certified compliant products.
Highlights
This paper describes the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability Program (IP) [1]
This paper provides data on the results of the approach that hands-on prototyping has had on the effectiveness of the consensus standards development process
Initiatives are driven by geospatial interoperability requirements expressed as real-world scenarios, business cases, and applied research topics
Summary
This paper describes the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Interoperability Program (IP) [1]. OGC-IP is a unique process for creating innovative implementations and specifications that feed into the OGC consensus Standards Program [2,3]. This paper provides data on the results of the approach that hands-on prototyping has had on the effectiveness of the consensus standards development process. The paper is organized : Innovation through collaborative prototyping: Section 2 presents software and standards development concepts and practices that underlie the OGC-IP approach. OGC Interoperability Program Process: Section 3 describes the policies and procedures defined for OGC-IP to link collaborative prototyping with standards development. Continuing to innovate the process: Section 6 describes how, based on the results to date, the OGC-IP process is being refined for future progress
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