Regions - Australasia

OGC encourages and supports the formation of regional forums, interest groups and project activities to address standards requirements, issues and challenges unique to a geographic region. In Australasia, OGC Australasia (also known as OGCA) became a legal entity in July 2003. The primary fole of OGCA is to conduct business in Australasia on behalf of OGC's mission, goals and objectives.

OGC's regional activities work to form a solid support foundation from which OGC members in Australia and New Zealand can develop business and implementation plans for sustainable involvement ongoing OGC specification activities and to implement interoperable geospatial architectures that utilize OpenGIS specifications and related standards.

OGC's Australasia business objectives:

1. Maintain an active OGC support and facilitation presence in Australia and New Zealand.
2. Insure sustainability and growth of OGC activities and community adoption of OpenGIS based geoprocessing solutions in Australia and New Zealand.
3. Overcome the friction of distance and provide better Australian and New Zealand membership support.
4. Establish a basis for stronger representation and engagement of OGC interests in the Asia / Pacific region.
5. Identify viable sources of funding and related resources for OGC related activates in Australia and New Zealand.
6. Support a strong OGC Australasia Technical Steering Committee activity.
7. Solidify member leadership in OGCA and obtain key requirements definition and potential sponsorship for OGC related projects in Australia and New Zealand.

Benefits of particpating in OGC's Australasia regional activities:

The Australian and New Zealand Spatial Communities share a vision that "Australasia will be a global leader in the innovative provision and use of spatial information". The Spatial industry in Australia and New Zealand is very active and robust. In 2001, the Australian Spatial Industry (ASI) had revenues in excess of US $600 million (AU$ 1 billion). The industry is growing at a healthy rate. There is a clear recognition in the industry that using spatial information and technology has broad application across many industries, giving the Australian and New Zealand spatial information industry the potential to offer the nation enormous benefits.

Progress - Completed OGC Australasia Region Projects:

Projects:

Western Australia - Department of Land Information.

1. Open Standards and Specifications: Facilitating the alignment of DLI's business requirements and technology plans.
2. Notional Interoperability Architecture and Implementation Scheme for the Shared Land Information Platform (SLIP).
3. Gap Analysis of Components Required for Implementation of a Notional Interoperability Architecture for the Shared Land Information Platform

Queensland

Information Queensland Technology Alignment Review
Volume 1: Executive Summary
Volume 2: QSIIS Managers' Summary
Volume 3: Project Team Technical Considerations
Volume 4: Appendices

SIDP

AusIndustry: Spatial Interoperability Demonstration Project (SIDP) - sponsored by AusIndustry. Facilitated by ASIBA and OGC in Australasia. Notional Architecture for a Geo-enabled Enterprise Portal Platform for the AusIndustry Spatial Interoperability Demonstration Project

• Volume 1: Summary
• Volume 2: Technical considerations: Viewpoints Part 1
• Volume 3: Technical considerations: Viewpoints Part 2
• Volume 4: Appendices
• Volume 5: Model to assist in the preparation of scenarios

Presentations/representations including:

November 2004

Office of Spatial Data Management, Canberra
The OGC Portal Reference Guide and Related OGC Web Service Activities

GITA, Sydney
GITA Seminar: Interoperability, Standards and Geospatial Content and Services

Information Queensland, Brisbane
Update on OGC Progress to date: The OGC Technology Baseline

August 2004

GITA Conference (Melbourne)
A model for the application of internet, e-business and geospatial standards to the development of secure critical infrastructure knowledge bases.

June 2004

OGC - Technical Committee - Architecture working group June 2004 (Southampton, England)
OGC- Planning Committee June 2004 (Southampton, England)

May 2004

National Land and Water Resources Audit Workshop, Canberra May 2004.
Interoperability - what does it mean in the real world - key components and developments.

ASDD Metadata Workshop (Canberra)
Metadata, ASDI, ASDD and OGC Open Standards - mainstreaming geospatial.

April 2004

Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG) (Canberra)
Update: Progress on MOU between DGIWG and OGC.

March 2004

Open Standards and transaction-based geo-spatial information manufacturing and supply.
Conference (Sydney) Pragmatic strategies for driving operational efficiencies through the use of web enabled geo-spatial information in the public and private sectors.