PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:
Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org
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May 6, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts.The Open Geospatial Consortium,
Inc. (OGC®) invites participation in an OGC Geospatial Rights
Management (GeoRM) Summit to be held June 22, 2009 at the Stata Center
at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Geospatial data and services -- Earth images, GIS, map browsers,
location services, navigation, etc. -- have become an integral part of
our information environment. But this progress raises issues of
security, public access, intellectual property, and emergency use of
geospatial information. The issues are complex because geospatial data
products are often composed of data from multiple sources which may
have different rights and restrictions associated with them. Thus,
business and policy issues, not technical issues, are now the industry
bottleneck.
"The OGC's Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model
(GeoDRM RM) provides a framework that enables much more than today's
‘all or nothing' protection," explained Graham Vowles, chair of
the GeoRM Working Group (
http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/geormwg ) of the OGC
Technical Committee. "This has important implications for governments
and scientists whose data would have far more value if the data could
be readily shared."
"Standards based on the GeoDRM RM will open up many new opportunities
for geospatial data and geoprocessing service businesses," said Mark
Reichardt, the OGC's president and CEO. "We are holding this summit to
give multiple stakeholder communities an opportunity to see how they
can benefit from developing and using GeoRM standards."
For OGC GeoRM Summit information, agenda and registration, see
http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090622georm.
The OGC's June 2009 Technical Committee meeting week also includes a
Sensor Web Summit ( http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/090624swe )
hosted by the OGC's Sensor Web Enablement Working Group and a 3D Fusion
Summit http://www.opengeospatial.org/event/0906233dfusion ) hosted by
the OGC's 3DIM Working Group.
The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 380
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® 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. Visit the OGC website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
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