ESRI – Interoperability and Standards Workshop Standards in Action: Thun, Kaspar Kundert Managing Director ESRI Geoinformatik AG, Zürich © 05/2003 ESRI Geoinformatik AG

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 2 ESRI participates in several standard organizations worldwide and acknowledges that standards help ESRI's users to be successful in their day-to-day GIS operations. The following presentation will give an overview on the company, our products and supported standards with a focus on ISO/TC 211.

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 3 ESRI internationally founded 1969 by Jack Dangermond Pioneer and Leader in GIS-Development 1981: ARC/INFO 2001: ArcGIS (Platform) > 2‘200 employees privately held doing business in 180 Countries > 1’000’000 users daily

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 4 opened in 1992 to support ESRI Inc.’s operations in Switzerland Offices in Nyon and Zurich Clients in the public and … Confederation, Cantons, Cities and Communes the private sector,… Cablecom, NOK, Syngenta, Swiss Re, Zürcher Kantonalbank, … amongst International Organizations and Universities 12 official partners ESRI in Switzerland

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 5 GIS back in the early nineties… Geographic analysis Project oriented Multiple sources, multiple organizations Distributed within a community GIS is unique in merging diverse information ESRI’s Coverage and Shapefile emerged as industry standard (“de-facto Norm”)

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 6 … GIS today Enterprise GIS GIS evolving beyond isolated communities GIS merging with broader IT infrastructures Enabled by distributed networks and Web Services Requires international interoperability – standards ESRI’s commitment to Interoperability and Standards supports the transition from Geographic Analysis to Enterprise GIS

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 7 Interoperability and Standards for our Users* * e.g. at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, Feb. 03

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 8 Developing standards is a lot of work

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 9 ESRI committed a large Team to Standards and Interoperability David Danko - standards organizations manager at ESRI S.J. Camarata - strategic level (OGC Board of Directors) Mike Tait - Program manager for Web services and LBS standards Marwa Mabrouk - chief scientist for open standards Anna Mikhailova – standards consultant Several dozen software development staff who track, design and engineer the implementation standards into our products.

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 10 ESRI Actively Participates in… ISO – International Organization for Standardization OGC – Open GIS Consortium W3C – World Wide Web Consortium ANSI – American National Standards Institute IHO – International Hydrographic Organization WS-I – Web Services Interoperability Organization OMA – Open Mobile Alliance (formerly LIF) WLIA – Wireless Location Industry Association FGDC – Federal Geographic Data Committee GSDI – Global Spatial Data Infrastructure CEN – Committee for European Normalization DGIWG – Digital Geographic Information Working Group EPSG – European Petroleum Survey Group ACSM – American Congress on Surveying and Mapping ASPRS – American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing STIA – Spatial Technologies Industry Association

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 11 Technical Committee 211 ISO Simple feature access – Part 1-3 ISO Simple feature access – Part 1-3 ISO Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO Geodetic codes and parameters ISO Geodetic codes and parameters ISO Web Map Server Interface ISO Web Map Server Interface ISO Data product specification ISO Data product specification ISO Location based services possible standards ISO Location based services possible standards ISO Location based services tracking and navigation ISO Location based services tracking and navigation ISO Geographic mark-up language ISO Geographic mark-up language ISO Data quality measures ISO Data quality measures ISO Metadata Implementation Specification ISO Metadata Implementation Specification ISO TS to harmonize stds. ISO TS to harmonize stds. ISO Conceptual schema language ISO Conceptual schema language ISO Profiles ISO Profiles ISO Spatial schema ISO Spatial schema ISO Temporal schema ISO Temporal schema ISO Rules for application schema ISO Rules for application schema ISO Feature cataloguing methodology ISO Feature cataloguing methodology ISO Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO Quality principles ISO Quality principles ISO Quality evaluation procedures ISO Quality evaluation procedures ISO Metadata ISO Metadata ISO – Encoding ISO – Encoding ISO Services ISO Services ISO Schema for coverage geometry and functions ISO Schema for coverage geometry and functions ESRI takes special interest in these standards:

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 12 ISO Active Participation* ESRI provides leadership role in ISO TC 211 Standards Development for… ISO 19115: Metadata ISO 19125: Simple Feature Access Part 1 – Common Architecture Part 2 – SQL Option ISO 19139: Metadata – Implementation Specification Compliant with ISO JTC SC 32: ISO/IEC : 1999 SQL Multimedia and Application Packages – Part 3: Spatial * ESRI actively participates through ANSI-INCITS-L1

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 13 Open GIS Consortium Principle member Actively participates on Technical Committee Planning Committee Board of Directors Current chair Metadata Working Group (WG) Sponsors Open Location Services Initiative ESRI

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 14 Interoperability Program Development Initiatives Web map test beds 1 & 2 Geospatial Fusion Service Pilot Project Civil Works Technology Insertion (CTI) Conformance and Testing Object Domain Modeling Support Initiative (ODMS) Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) OGC Web Services Initiative (OWS) 1, 1.2 Open Location Services (OpenLS) Open GIS Feature Geometry (RFP-12) Military Pilot Project Phase 1 (MPP-1) Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development (GISD) Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (CIPI) 1, 2 ESRI takes special interest in these Initiatives:

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 15 Active Participation in the Development of OGC specifications Simple Feature specification Catalog Services specification Grid Coverage Access specification Geography Mark-up Language (GML) recommendation OpenLS suite of specifications Location Utility Geocoding Reverse Geocoding Directory Routing Presentation

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 16 … participation in these organizations is ok, but why is ESRI spending money on it? User requirements Allows users to share information and operate with others Flexibility – multiple environments All ESRI’s development has been based on open systems and interoperability Multiple platforms Integrated with all major DBMS’ …

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 17 Standards (included) in our products = Standards in Action I. ISO Metadata Standard: ArcGIS Desktop: ArcCatalog Create, edit, and manage ISO metadata ArcIMS Metadata Services Create a central, online metadata repository serving ISO metadata Metadata Explorer: customizable, browser-based means of searching ISO metadata

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 18 Standards (included) in our products = Standards in Action II. ESRI Products implementing OGC specs: ArcGIS ArcSDE Simple Feature Access ArcIMS Web Map Server connector Web Feature Server connector Metadata Server Metadata Explorer Geography Network Explorer OGC HTML Client ArcExplorer Java Plug-in

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 19 The ArcGIS product family

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 20 Product Architecture and Platform Strategy

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 21 … participation in Standard organizations is ok, but why is ESRI spending money on it? User requirements Allows users to share information and operate with others Flexibility – multiple environments All development has been based on open systems and interoperability Multiple platforms Integrated with all major DBMS’ Sets a strong foundation for our movement into web services

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 22 Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) ESRI charter member Founded by Microsoft and IBM Promote web services interoperability across Platforms Applications Programming languages

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 23 Interoperable Web Services

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 24 GIS Interoperability Evolution

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 25 ESRI Standards and Interoperability Website Information and News Download center WMS Connector WFS Connector AEJ OGC Plug-in Forum for open connector development “ESRI’s continued Commitment to Standards and Interoperability” (ArcUser April – June 2003; p )

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 26 ESRI is committed to: Open standards Interoperability Locate, understand, and employ data and services The sharing and leveraging of knowledge

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards 27 ESRI Geoinformatik AG Beckenhofstr Zürich Thank you