ESRI Interoperability and Standards Workshop Standards in Action

ESRI – Interoperability and Standards Workshop Standards in Action: Thun, 2003 -05 -21 Kaspar Kundert Managing Director ESRI Geoinformatik AG, Zürich © 05/2003 ESRI Geoinformatik AG

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. 2 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ESRI Actively Participates in… ISO – International Organization for Standardization OGC – Open GIS Consortium W 3 C – 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 10 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

Technical Committee 211 n ESRI takes special interest in these standards: n n n n 11 ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language ISO 19106 - Profiles ISO 19107 - Spatial schema ISO 19108 - Temporal schema ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO 19113 - Quality principles ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures ISO 19115 - Metadata ISO 19118 – Encoding ISO 19119 - Services ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and functions n n n ISO 19125 - Simple feature access – Part 1 -3 ISO 19126 - Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface ISO 19131 - Data product specification ISO 19132 - Location based services possible standards ISO 19133 - Location based services tracking and navigation ISO 19136 - Geographic mark-up language ISO 19138 - Data quality measures ISO 19139 - Metadata Implementation Specification ISO 19140 - TS to harmonize stds. ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

ISO Active Participation* n ESRI provides leadership role in ISO TC 211 Standards Development for… n ISO 19115: Metadata n ISO 19125: Simple Feature Access n Part 1 – Common Architecture n Part 2 – SQL Option n ISO 19139: Metadata – Implementation Specification n Compliant with ISO JTC SC 32: ISO/IEC 13249 -3: 1999 n SQL Multimedia and Application Packages – Part 3: Spatial * ESRI actively participates through ANSI-INCITS-L 1 12 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

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

Interoperability Program Development Initiatives n ESRI takes special interest in these Initiatives: n n n 14 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 (Open. LS) 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 – Interoperability and Standards

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

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

Standards (included) in our products = Standards in Action I. ISO 19115 Metadata Standard: n Arc. GIS Desktop: Arc. Catalog n Create, edit, and manage ISO metadata n Arc. IMS Metadata Services n Create a central, online metadata repository serving ISO metadata n Metadata Explorer: customizable, browser-based means of searching ISO metadata 17 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

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

The Arc. GIS product family 19 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

Product Architecture and Platform Strategy 20 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

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

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

Interoperable Web Services 23 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

GIS Interoperability Evolution 24 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

http: //www. esri. com/standards n ESRI Standards and Interoperability Website n Information and News n Download center n WMS Connector n WFS Connector n AEJ OGC Plug-in n Forum for open connector development n “ESRI’s continued Commitment to Standards and Interoperability” (Arc. User April – June 2003; p. 32 -45) 25 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

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

Thank you ESRI Geoinformatik AG Beckenhofstr. 72 8006 Zürich http: //ESRI-Suisse. ch www. esri. com K. Kundert@ESRI-Suisse. ch 27 ESRI – Interoperability and Standards