Andy Turner's OGC Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- This is a Web Page for organising my information about the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC).
- The University of Leeds was an Associate (University) Member of the OGC for about 10 years until the membership expired on 2010-01-30.
- Contents:
Introduction to the OGC and its relationship with the University of Leeds
- The OGC was founded in 1994 and liaisons with other standards, professional and educational organizations. For many years at least up to 2010, the TC has been meeting regularly 4 times a year.
- Notes from TC Meetings Attended by members from the University of Leeds:
  - 2008-06 Potsdam
  - 2007-09 Boulder Report (Paul Townend)
  - 2007-07 Paris
  - 2006-12 San Diego
  - 2006-06 Edinburgh
- Important links:
  - OGC Web Home Page
  - OGC Portal
Andy Turner and the OGC
- I acted as OGC Technical Committee (TC) Representative (from 2006-05-11) and Business Representative (from 2008-01-30) for the University of Leeds until 2010-01-30.
- I contributed at various TC meetings, collaborated in the GeoLinking IE and helped out a little with the GLS SWG.
- Email List Membership
  - See the follwoing for an overview of all OGC Email Lists:
    - https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo
  - I am subscribed to the following email lists:
  - I was unsubscribed from the following email lists on 2010-07-16:
- Continued Interests
  - I have read much documentation including; standards and other specifications, discussion papers and Technical Committee meeting material.
  - As the Standards remain open when released, I look forward to using these and reading the documentation when approariate.
  - I had planned to get more involved/support the following OGC groups (maybe some time in the future I will return to this):
  - I had planned to attend more OGC Events including Techincal Committee meetings and related conferences, but...
  - I still plan to encourage colleagues and students at the University of Leeds to learn about and get involved in OGC.
Blog
- 2010-09-08 Subscribed to the following Email Lists:
- 2010-07-16 Unsubscribed from member only Email Lists
- 2010-01-07 to 2010-07-01 Encouraged University of Leeds to maintain OGC Associative (University) Membership, but failed!
- 2010-01-30 University of Leeds Membership expires
- 2008 to 2010 Worked on the GLS SWG to help develop the TJS Standard 1.0 Document
- 2007-01-01 to 2008-06-10 Contributed to the Geospatial Linking Service IE
  - For details please see my OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment Web Page
  - Developed NCeSS Use Case
  - Helped with developing GLS Implementation (Client/Server)
  - Made a presentation to the TC on behalf of the GeoLinking IE team to try to encourage formation of a Standards Working Group.
- 2008-06-06
  - Became an observer of the following Interoperability Experiments/Pilot Projects:
    - GALEON IE
    - GeoConnections CGDI Pilot
  - Added Manuel Gloor as user with access to the OGC Portal
    - AFAIK he is yet to confirm...
- 2008-06-02 to 2006-06-05
  - Attended the 65th OGC TC Meeting:
- 2008-05-01
  - Added Junaid Arshad as user with access to the OGC Portal
- 2007-08-07
  - Added Anthony Beck as a user with access to the OGC Portal
- 2007-07-19
  - Added Duncan Russell as a user with access to the OGC Portal
- 2007-07
  - Technical Committee Meeting 2007-07
- 2007-01-12
  - Subscribed to the Mass-Market-GEO email list.
- 2006-12
  - Technical Committee Meeting 2006-12
- 2006-12-04
  - Signed up for Geolinking Interoperability Experiment
- 2006-12-01
  - Wrote an item for the SoG Newsletter to advertise that I am the OGC TC representative for the University of Leeds and that anyone wanting access to OGC materials is welcome to register via myself for access to the portal.
  - Attempt to get involved in the Geolinking Interoperability Experiment activity planning by contacting Peter Schut.
  - Added the following as users with access to the OGC Portal:
    - Belinda Wu
    - Paul Townend
    - John Parsons
- 2006-06
  - Technical Committee Meeting 2006-06
- 2006-01
  - Andy Evans and I organised University of Leeds a renewal as an Associate (University) Member of the OGC
References

Andy Turner's OGC Web Page

Introduction

Introduction to the OGC and its relationship with the University of Leeds

Andy Turner and the OGC

Blog

References

Validation and Metadata