| The Open Geospatial Consortium recently became a member of the World Wide Web Consortium | |
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The Open Geospatial Consortium ® (OGC) recently became a member of the World Wide Web Consortium, (W3C, http://www.w3.org/ ) a standards organization that develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. The OGC is participating in a W3C incubator activity focusing on semantic geospatial issues. W3C Incubator Activities facilitate rapid development, on a time scale of a year or less, of new Web-related concepts. The semantic geospatial activity or Geospatial XG (http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/) is sponsored by W3C members OGC, SRI International, University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute (USC ISI), Stanford University and Oracle and is chaired by Traverse Technology's Joshua Lieberman. As an initial goal the Geospatial XG is working to develop a W3C "Note" based on GeoRSS version 1. This will result in a W3C Web page describing GeoRSS in the context of both W3C standards such as XML, HTML, and OWL; and OGC's relevant work, such as the OGC Abstract Specifications and Geography Markup Language (GML). | |
| Weitere Informationen: http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/660 | |