1. Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards? Mark E. Reichardt +1 301 840-1361 mreichardt@opengeospatial.org 13 September 2010

2. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards?... open standards prevent a single, self-interested party from controlling a standard, facilitate competition by lowering the cost of entry, and stimulate innovation beyond the standard by companies that seek to differentiate themselves. Customers value the interoperability that open standards provide and generally benefit from not being locked into a particular supplier. Source: Open Standards, Open Source, and Open Innovation: Harnessing the Benefits of Openness, April 2006. Committee For Economic Development. www.ced.org

3. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards? Google Copyright © 2008, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc., All Rights Reserved. But standardization will make KML more palatable, Weiss-Malik said. “Governments like to say they can publish to OGC KML instead of Google KML,” he said. “What OGC brings to the table is…everyone has confidence we won’t take advantage of the format or change it in a way that will harm anyone,” said Michael Weiss-Malik, Google’s KML product manager. “The goal is to prevent market fragmentation,” in which different technology uses different standards. http://www.jonmojuddho.org/index.php/2010/07/23/go ogle-mapping-spec-now-an-industry-standard/

4. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards? ERDAS –“ERDAS recognizes that OGC interoperability empowers users, making their systems more flexible, driving ROI for their enterprise.” – Interoperability among diverse products provides customers with increased value and versatility, and it provides vendors with more strategic options. www.directionsmag.com/articles/the-strategic-power-of-ogc-standards/122763 www.erdas.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=vfugftsQbXM%3D&tabid=117&mid=474

5. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards? Galdos –“…Galdos aligns its business and vision to the Open Standards movement in computing, services definitions, and data standards in order to implement the GeoWeb and realise the benefits it can deliver.” –“To provide solutions that are effective, scalable, and future-proof, GeoWeb services must be built on a platform of stable and internationally recognized standards.” PCI Geomatics –Standards based geospatial interoperability benefits everyone – it keeps delivery costs down, and enables a widespread array of analysis. The OGC initiatives bring to fruition the full societal, economical and scientific advantages of incorporating sophisticated, but easy to use geospatial technology into government, public and private markets. www.galdosinc.com/services/standards http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/quotes/pcigeomatics

6. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count What do we mean by “Open” Standards? Freely and publicly available Non discriminatory No license fees Vendor neutral Data neutral Agreed to by a formal consensus process

7. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count7 What do we mean by an “Open Standard”? Numerous but very similar definitions. The following is a compendium from the wikipedia page on “open standards” –Availability: Open Standards are available for all to read and implement. –Maximize End-User Choice: Open Standards create a fair, competitive market for implementations of the standard. They do not lock the customer in to a particular vendor or group. –No Royalty: Open Standards are free for all to implement, with no royalty or fee. Certification of compliance by the standards organization may involve a fee. –Collaborative process – voluntary and market driven development (or approval) following a transparent consensus driven process that is reasonably open to all interested parties. –Reasonably balanced – ensures that the process is not dominated by any one interest group. –Due process - includes consideration of and response to comments by interested parties. –The standard is adopted and will be maintained by a not-for-profit organisation, and its ongoing development occurs on the basis of an open decision-making procedure available to all interested parties (consensus or majority decision etc.)not-for-profit organisation

8. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count8 Why Open Voluntary Consensus Standards? Standards developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies, both domestic and international. These standards include provisions requiring that owners of relevant intellectual property have agreed to make that intellectual property available on a non-discriminatory, royalty-free or reasonable royalty basis to all interested parties.

9. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count9 What is a Voluntary Consensus Standards Body / Organization? Voluntary consensus standards bodies are domestic or international organizations which plan, develop, establish, or coordinate voluntary consensus standards using agreed-upon procedures. (e.g. in the USA -- OMB Circular A119) A voluntary consensus standards body is defined by the following attributes: –(i) Openness. –(ii) Balance of interest. –(iii) Due process. –(vi) An appeals process. –(v) Consensus

10. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards? Enhance Return on Investment and reduce risk Improve choice from the marketplace –Choose based on functionality / capability desired –Avoid “lock in” to a proprietary architecture Lower systems lifecycle costs Increase market and revenue opportunity Future proof existing applications and legacy investments Mobilize new solutions rapidly

11. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Why Adopt Open Standards? Why should oceanic instrument vendors adopt open standards? –All the aforementioned, An equally important question to consider: Should oceanic instrument vendors influence the development of open standards? –Early understanding of user community requirements –Early influence over standards in development –Opportunity to integrate standards implementation in the technology development cycle –Earlier to market with standards desired by the user community

12. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Return on Investment Multiple studies confirm the value and advantage of open standards based solutions: –NASA Geospatial Interoperability: Return on Investment Study: www.egy.org/files/ROI_Study.pdf www.egy.org/files/ROI_Study.pdf –Value of Standards, Delphi Report: http://www.pesc.org/library/docs/abou t_us/whitepapers/ValueofStandards- DelphiStudy.pdf http://www.pesc.org/library/docs/abou t_us/whitepapers/ValueofStandards- DelphiStudy.pdf –Socio-Economic Impacts of the Spatial Data Infrastructure in Catalonia http://www.ec- gis.org/inspire/reports/Study_reports/c atalonia_impact_study_report.pdf NASA Study: As compared to a 100% proprietary solution, a standards based enterprise application has a risk-adjusted Return on Investment (ROI) of 163.0% over a 10 year period.

13. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count13 Geospatial Interoperability ROI Study Key Results Results: Standards reduce risk and lower costs The project that adopted and implemented geospatial interoperability standards –had a risk-adjusted Return on Investment (ROI) of 119.0%. This ROI is a “Savings to Investment” ratio over the 5 year project life cycle. –had a risk-adjusted Return on Investment (ROI) of 163.0% over a 10 year period. –saved 26.2% compared to the project that relied upon a proprietary standard ( One way to interpret this result is that for every $100M spent on projects based on proprietary platforms, the same value could be achieved with $75M if the project were based on open standards.) Source:

14. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Stored Vector Feature Data IEEE, OGC, PUCK Collaborative Activities Live Sensor data Sensor commands IEEE 1451 Legacy/proprietary SWE Any sensor system IEEE 1451 Sensor Networks SWE Applications Sensors/TIM/ NCAP/STWS Catalogs Sensor discovery Stored Sensor Data PUCK

15. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location CountCopyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. NOAA IOOS Data Integration Framework

16. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count Global Earth System Of Systems (GEOSS) A distributed system of systems –Improves coordination of strategies and observation systems –Links all platforms: in situ, aircraft, and satellite networks –Identifies gaps in our global capacity –Facilitates exchange of data and information –Improves decision-makers’ abilities to address pressing policy issues Source: Greg Withee, NOAA, OGC TC January 18, 2005

17. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count ESONET Survey

18. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count References OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) Resource Page –http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sensorwebhttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/groups/sensorweb OGC Sensor Web Architecture Best Practice (includes discussion of IEEE1451 interoperability): –http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=29405http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=29405 Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment: –Phase 1: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/oceansie (summary) http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/oceansie http://www.oostethys.org/ogc-oceans-interoperability-experiment (report)http://www.oostethys.org/ogc-oceans-interoperability-experiment –Phase 2: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/oceansieii http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/oceansieii

19. OGC Copyright 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium Making Location Count References Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) –http://www.earthobservations.org/http://www.earthobservations.org/ –GEOSS Standards Interoperability Forum (SIF) http://seabass.ieee.org/groups/geoss/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=61 –GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilots (AIP) International program managed via OGC’s Interoperability Program process to advance a GEOSS Common Infrastructure based on open standards best practices. Summary: http://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/geoss/ogchttp://www.opengeospatial.org/projects/initiatives/geoss/ogc OGC Standards –http://www.opengeospatial.org/standardshttp://www.opengeospatial.org/standards OGC Alliance Partners / Members –Member listing: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/membershttp://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/members –Alliance Partners: http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners (SOSC to be added shortly as our newest Alliance partner) http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/alliancepartners