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The Open Geospatial Consortium and EarthCube, An EarthCube Technology Paper
EarthCube Discussion Forum
  • David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin
  • Ben Domenico, Universities Corporation for Atmospheric Research
  • Alastair Gemmell, University of Reading
  • Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University
  • David G. Tarboton, Utah State University
  • Ilya Zaslavsky, University of California, San Diego
Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
10-1-2011
Abstract

EarthCube aims to create an integrated system to access, analyze and share information that is used by the entire geosciences community. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an organization of which more than four hundred companies and agencies are members, whose purpose is to create open source standards for sharing geospatial and observational information. The authors of this paper are users of OGC standards in our work in hydrology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography and in the solid earth sciences, in other words, in key disciplinary fields that contribute to the Geosciences. Moreover, the OGC has an effective process for engaging individuals from many countries in standards development and interoperability testing that encourages them to set aside the roles they play in their home organizations and instead focus just on what is needed to share a particular class of information across the globe. This paper examines the hypothesis that an OGC-like process could be useful for broader sharing of information in the geosciences.

Citation Information
Maidment, David, et al. “The Open Geospatial Consortium and EarthCube.” EarthCube Discussion Forum, 1 Oct. 2011, pp. 1–6.