RE: Carl Reed Introduction

All -

I am currently the Chief Technology Officer and an Executive Director of the Open Geospatial Consortium  (OGC), a non-profit international standards organization with a current membership of 415+ commercial, government, and academic organizations. The OGC provides a consensus forum within which the members collaborate to solve interoperability and standards related problems for the both geospatial community as well as users of geospatial content and technology in the broader IT sector. Within this context, I also participate in and collaborates with other standards organizations, including OASIS, the IETF, ISO TC 211, and the W3C. I have helped define location payload enhancements to a number of existing ISO, IETF and OASIS standards as well as working numerous OGC standards. I have 40 years experience in the geospatial/GIS industry. More information on my background at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4036038&trk=tab_pro .

The OGC is interested in the work of the W3C Provenance WG because provenance is a large issue in the geospatial/GIS communities. When, where, and how geographic data are collected is critical information in determining whether specific data are fit for use for a given application. In the GIS world, how geographic data are processed and/or proceed in specific workflows is also of critical importance. As such, there are other provenance metadata associated with provenance, such as accuracy, quality, and uncertainty, that are required elements in many geospatial workflows. Therefore, I am representing the OGC Membership and hopefully can interject use cases and requirements for a standard way of expressing provenance that works with geospatial content.

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification Program
Open Geospatial Consortium
www.opengeospatial.org

The OGC: Making Location Count!

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