Presentation to

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• Presentation to
• ISO/TC 211 Plenary Meeting
• 24 September 1998
• Beijing, China
• ---------
• Kees Wevers
• Convenor WG 5

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• initial meeting of Ad-hoc WG 5 - Functional
  Standards - was held in Ottawa, Canada, 27/28
  April 1995
• informal meeting of WG 5 - Profiles and
  Functional Standards - was held in Reston, USA,
  30 August 1995
• first meeting was held in Drammen, Norway, 07/08
  December 1995

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• second meeting was held in Ottawa, Canada, 16
  October 1996
• third meeting was held in Sydney, Australia, 22
  January 1997
• fourth meeting was held in Oxford, UK, 29/30
  September 1997
• a workshop on Functional Standards, Profiles and
  Product Specifications was held in Oxford, UK,
  01 October 1997

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• fifth meeting was held in Victoria, BC, Canada,
  09/10 March 1998
• sixth meeting was held in Beijing, China, 23
  September 1998

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• purpose of WG 5
• to provide the bridge between the base standards
  under development, and existing standards and
  products
• to provide a mechanism to put the base standards
  to use
• two projects
• 15046-6 Profiles
• 15854 Functional Standards

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• international GI standards already exist
• on the ISO/TC 211 agenda is the harmonisation of
  existing standards into profiles of more general
  standards
• main goal of TC 211 is interoperability, for
• flow and re-use of information
• competition on an equal basis
• reduction of costs

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• four steps in achieving these goals
• identifying information components from
  recognised functional standards as input to TC
  211
• development of base standards in WGs 1-4
• development of profiles using TC 211 base
  standards
• development of product specifications using TC
  211 profiles and base standards

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The simple picture
Functional Standards
harmoni- sation
ŸŸŸŸŸ
Suite of Base Standards
Profiles
ISPs
Product Specs
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• Work Item 15854 on Functional Standards accepted
  in ballot June 97
• scope
• taxonomy of recognized functional standards
• identification of components of these FSs that
  can be harmonised between themselves and with TC
  211 base standards
• assistance with development of profiles
  corresponding to these functional standards
• PT leader Debra LaMarque

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• ad-hoc Project Team meeting in The Hague, The
  Netherlands, May 1997
• first meeting of Project Team in Oxford, UK, 30
  September 1997, embedded in WG 5 meeting
• second meeting of Project Team in Victoria, BC,
  Canada, 10 March 1998, embedded in WG 5 meeting

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• functional standards identified to-date
• DIGEST (DGIWG)
• GDF (TC 204)
• S-57 (IHO)
• SDTS (not a functional standard) contri-buted its
  modularity concept

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• technical report Functional Standards, published
  20 July 1997
• review of functional standards
• mapping of functional standards to the ISO 15046
  base standards (profiling)
• harmonisation of functional standards
  (introducing the modularity concept for the base
  standards)
• appendices with inputs and guidance for relevant
  base standards

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• Work Item 15046-6 - Profiles
• scope
• definition of guidelines for defining a
  profile/product within the TC 211 family of
  standards
• establishment of a registration procedure
• PT leader Doug OBrien

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• Committee Draft was due for March 1998
• delayed due to recent re-engineering of JTC1
  directives (which provide primary input for
  registration procedure)
• new version of document 04 Sep 1998
• presented and discussed in WG 5 meeting in Beijing

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• contents of document
• explanatory section on profiling
• guidelines for creation of profiles
• guidelines for creation of product
  specifi-cations
• registration procedure
• incorporates modularity concept for the base
  standards

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• document status WG 5 working draft
• comments to WG 5 until 31 October 1998 for final
  WD
• procedure part will be discussed with ISO Central
  Secretariat
• depending on result of discussion CD will be
  created / schedule to be determined

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• in Beijing fruitful discussions with other
  WGs/PTs on relationship of Profiles to other WIs,
  and modularity concept
• 2 recent DGIWG proposals for the creation of ISPs
  were discussed
• purpose to create awareness for profiles/ISPs
• comprise a simple and a complicated ISP

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• due to the fact that FSs are continuously
  evolving, a continuation of the current WI to
  develop a technical amendment, at stage 0, is
  proposed