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The Australian Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI) has joined
forces with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) through the signing of a
memorandum of understanding. The relationship with OGC will be especially
strong with the CRCSI’s Spatial Infrastructures research program.
“We’ll
be using OGC and other open standards in our research to help direct
development of the next generation of spatial infrastructure in Australia and
New Zealand”, says Dr Geoff West, Science Director of the CRCSI’s Spatial
Infrastructures research program.CRCSI input to the OGC will inform the
direction of research for existing and new OGC standards. Dr West explained,
“By using OGC standards, we ensure our research communicates directly with
other systems.”
The
agreement will leverage the collective expertise of many of the CRCSI’s partnering
organisations to position research outputs for rapid utilization. Further to
the linked research goals, CRCSI and OGC will share outreach and marketing
materials to increase awareness of the increasing influential role of open
standards in location based research. Joint activities may include introduction
of interoperability requirements into the OGC consensus process, and the
sponsorship/funding of CRCSI research interoperability and compliance testing
requirements in OGC’s Interoperability Program testbed and pilot initiatives.
“We
are particularly pleased with this new partnership. It will expand our reach
internationally and accelerate the rate at which we learn about and contribute
to international standards developments” says Peter Woodgate, CEO of the
CRCSI.Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the OGC noted, “We are delighted to
have CRCSI’s participation and leadership in the OGC international
process. The impact of research
organisations like CRCSI in the OGC international process is significant. Research organisations understand the power
of open standards to support the rapid transition of research results into
broad community application. They also
benefit by partnering with other OGC public and private sector members to
cooperatively advance important research objectives. ”
About
CRCSI
The
Australian and New Zealand Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
(CRCSI) conducts research and development projects
that involve collaboration between government, corporate and academic
resources. CRCSI creates new wealth for its participants and the nation through
innovative research and application and commercialization of spatial
information technologies; through education; and through building collaborative
partnerships. CRCSI currently has around 95 partner organisations.
About
OGC
The
OGC is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government
agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus
process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards
support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless
and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC standards empower
technology developers to make geospatial information and services accessible
and useful with any application that needs to be geospatially enabled.
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