AGI and British Standards Committee (IST/36) Geographic Information Business Plan 2015

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1 AGI and British Standards Committee (IST/36) Geographic Information Business Plan 2015 Peter Parslow, Chairman 1. Scope IST/36 is committee of British Standards Institution (BSI) with responsibility for standards for geographic information. It also operates as a standing committee on standards within AGI. Membership currently stands at 20 with representatives from a range of government and commercial organisations, as well as several individual members with special expertise in the development of standards who are co-opted. A full list of members at the end of 2014 is given in Table A1 in Annex A. The Committee meets quarterly at BSI. These meetings are supplemented by telephone conferences held monthly in the intervening period between quarterly meetings. Administrative support is provided by the Committees Support Centre (CSC) at BSI and AGI provide a Committee Secretary (sponsored by Ordnance Survey). Committee members represent UK at the Technical Committee meetings of ISO/TC 211 (Geographic information/geomatics) and CEN/TC 287 (Geographic Information). These meetings qualify for AITS 1 travel funding for members who are eligible. The schedule of meetings, as far as is known, for 2015 is given in Table A2 in Annex A. 2. Mission The mission of the Committee is: To ensure that UK has an agreed portfolio of relevant and trusted standards for the better exploitation and sharing of geographic information and that these are maintained and promoted. 3. Terms of Reference The terms of reference are to: understand and specify the stakeholder requirements, including through the Association for Geographic Information (AGI); on behalf of BSI, propose and provide technical approval of British Standards; monitor and prioritise the overall effort on UK standards; promote the value, understanding and adoption of national, European and International standards, through AGI; obtain funding for standards work and liaise with sponsors to ensure that the work of the Committee can be sustained; maintain a membership which is representative of the users, developers and producers of geographic information in UK; 1 Assisted International Travel Scheme funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills but administered by BSI IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 1 of

2 maintain a network of relevant UK domain and standard experts; coordinate UK input into the work of ISO/TC 211, CEN/TC 287 and other relevant de jure national, European and International Standards bodies; be responsible for the UK metadata standard, UK GEMINI, and its associated guidance and implementation documents; agree the publication of ISO standards as British Standards where relevant and applicable to UK; maintain awareness of developments within the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) where these will impact on the development of ISO standards. 3. Achievements during 2014 Support for ISO/TC 211 The UK provided active support through the following activities: attendance at meetings of Technical Committee, Working Groups, Project Teams, Editing Committees and coordinating groups including the Programme Management Group and the Advisory Group on Strategy (see Tables A3 and A4 in Annex A); input to a range of standards work items; national body response to formal ballots and request for on draft standards (see Table A5 in Annex A); liaison between ISO/TC 211 and the Oil and Gas Producers (OGP), and Energistics. Support for CEN/TC 287 The UK provided active support through the following activities: providing the Chair and Secretariat of the TC - the Secretary is Martin Ford and the Chair is Dr Robert Walker; attendance at meetings of the Technical Committee (see Table A3); respond as the UK national body to formal ballots. The main objectives of the TC fully supported by UK are: adopting the ISO/TC 211 standards series as CEN standards; developing new standards, specifications and profiles of standards ; developing technical guidance and best practice documentation; collaborating with other standards related initiatives most notably those associated with INSPIRE; educating and promoting the use of standards for geographic information. British Standards There have been no further developments since the Guidelines for BS7666 Spatial datasets for geographical referencing: 2006 were completed and published on the AGI website in However, there has been increasing take-up and use of the Standard. IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 2 of

3 UK GEMINI The UK Location Programme adopted UK GEMINI2 as the profile for all metadata available on the UK INSPIRE Discovery Service and data.gov.uk. UK GEMINI has remained under the ownership of AGI who are responsible for its maintenance. Other standards activity The Committee submitted in November on the Publicly Available Specification (PAS) Specification for information management for the operational phase of construction projects using building information modelling. 4. Plan for 2015 Support for ISO/TC 211 The UK will continue to be active in ISO/TC 211. Much of the work will involve UK input to the revision of existing standards. In particular, UK will provide input to the direction of the work through the Programme Management Group, to try to ensure that there is a clear scope and business requirement for all new work items. TC211 will meet in UK, at Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton, in June IST/36 will establish a sub-group to work with the TC211 secretariat, Ordnance Survey and others to facilitate this. Support for CEN/TC 287 The UK will continue to support CEN/TC 287 and continue to provide the Chair and Secretariat. At its last meeting, CEN/TC 287 agreed a short list of actions, which if completed successfully would mean that CEN/TC 287 would need no further face to face meetings until further notice. British Standards Support will be given to BS7666: 2006, particularly with respect to any amendments or extensions that may be required. UK GEMINI2 The Guidelines will be updated following issue of the latest version of UK GEMINI. UK INSPIRE is known to be preparing a list of change requests. AGI has also agreed to take ownership of UK Location s GEMINI XML implementation documents. IST/36 will establish a sub-group to manage these changes, with the intention of publishing a revised version of GEMINI (conceptual standard, implementation artefacts, and guidance) during the summer of We will continue to provide support including responding to queries via the AGI website. Other standards activities Other standards activities will include the following: Support on standards for AGI, particularly the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and events; Support for the fledging UK open geo standards forum, including reviewing its first year and being involved in recommending whether it continues and if so, in what form (as an outreach activity of BSI IST/36, as an AGI SIG, as an OGC forum, or in some other form) IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 3 of

4 Further publicity material in support of current standards and activities, particularly for the AGI website. 5. Risks and mitigation 1. Isolation from AGI leadership, due to lack of communication, interest and support from Council: Regular reports to AGI Chair and Council. Establish good relationship with our AGI Council champion. 2. Out of date information on the AGI website. Improve the content and currency of the standards pages on the website, making use of our committee login that should be available on the new site to be launched in early Place short news items with links to the standards pages. 3. Lack of representation at TC211 & TC287 meetings, due to shortage of travel funding via AITS. This would seriously diminish UK influence on European and International standards development: - We will endeavour to always plan ahead such that AITS applications go in early and always before the quarter in which the meeting occurs. - Seek alternative funding where possible e.g. JRC. - seek sponsorship from potential beneficiaries of the work. - As a last resort, dial in to meetings where these facilities are available. 4. Over-dependence on a few long-serving members: - We will continue our efforts to communicate the activities of IST/36 and the benefits of standards both to AGI, particularly through the SIGs, and the wider user community, - Seek to find new participants especially amongst those newer to the industry. The UK open geo standards forum has already resulted in one new domain expert commenting on a draft. - Follow up people who comment using the BSI Draft for Public Comment site during 2014, this received from one person on one draft. 5. Competing standards: Individual sectors which regard themselves as "special" and produce their own standards that are incompatible with industry, National or International Standards. At the national level, competing standards have already been produced. - We will encourage the use of existing standards through continuing promotion of the benefits. - We will attempt to minimise conflict by encouraging membership of IST/36 by other bodies and influencing through AGI. - Support the open standards forum IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 4 of

5 6. Failure by government to appreciate the importance of standards or even recognise their existence in the domain of geographic information. - We will continue our efforts to communicate and involve government departments through encouragement of their participation in the work of IST/36, promotion of relevant standards, meetings with individual departments and personal contacts. - Support the open standards forum - We will continue to support UK INSPIRE where resources allow. - Engage with the UK government Open Standards Board IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 5 of

6 Annex A. Table A1: Membership of IST/36 December 2014 Name Peter Parslow Alex Babington Ian Curington Martin Ford Jonathan Harrod-Booth Alexander Kent John Laxton Roger Lott Keiran Millard James Reid Les Rackham Gee-Mei Redgwell Neil Silley Trevor Steenson Andrew Trigg Graham Vowles Rob Walker Ulric Wilson Tim Wood Neil Wharton Representing (Role) Chair (Note: supported by Ordnance Survey) AGI (Secretary) (Note: supported by Ordnance Survey) Liaison from IDT/1 Co-opted (CEN TC/287) EPL/278 liaison British Cartographic Society NERC Co-opted HR Wallingford UK INSPIRE Co-opted ONS GeoPlace Land and Property Services NI Land Registry British Computer Society Co-opted Marine Environmental Data & Information Network (MEDIN) Co-opted (BIM) MOD This table does not include an additional nine "non-participating" or "papers only" committee members who are members of particular ISO groups. Table A2: Schedule for AITS funding 01 January December 2015 Committee Reference Location Dates of meeting No of Delegates for AITS CEN/TC 287 TBC Tbc may not occur 1 ISO/TC 211 Sydney, Australia - October or TBC November Delegates eligible for AITS R Walker (as TC Chair) R Walker, R Lott tbc ISO/TC211 in June 2015 is in the UK, and therefore not eligible for AITS funding. CEN/TC287 is not having a spring meeting. Delegates will be confirmed nearer the dates of the meetings. IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 6 of

7 Table A3: Participation in European and International Technical Committees in 2014 Technical Meetings Role Members Committee Location Dates CEN/TC 287 Delft Oct 14 Chair of TC Secretary of TC Head of UK Delegation Rob Walker Martin Ford Peter Parslow ISO/TC 211 Berlin 2-6 June 14 Head of UK Delegation Member of Delegation Member of Delegation Member of Delegation Roger Lott Rob Walker Peter Parslow Mark Shenzhen (China) Nov 14 Head of UK Delegation Attended remotely Richardson Peter Parslow Roger Lott Table A4: Participation in ISO/TC 211 working and ad hoc groups in 2014 Standard/ Title Members Tech Report ISO Conceptual Schema Language revision project team Peter Parslow ISO Terminology - revision project team Rob Walker ISO Spatial schema revision project team Roger Lott, Mark Richardson ISO Rules for Application Schema revision project team Peter Parslow, Carsten Roensdorf ISO Geographic information - Metadata - Part 3: XML Peter Parslow schema implementation of metadata fundamentals ISO Geodetic codes and parameters Roger Lott ISO Procedures for Item Registration Roger Lott ISO Geographic information - Geography Markup Language Peter Parslow (GML) ISO Metadata XML schema implementation revision Peter Parslow project team ISO Addressing - Part 1 Rob Walker ISO Geodetic References - project team Roger Lott ISO Well known text representation of coordinate reference Roger Lott systems ISO Geographic information - Registry services James Passmore N/a Programme Management Group Rob Walker N/a XML Maintenance Group James Rapaport N/a Control Body for Geodetic Registry Network Roger Lott N/a Ad hoc Group on GIS - BIM Tim Chilton N/a Ontology Maintenance Group John Goodwin N/a Advisory group on outreach Rob Walker N/a Ad hoc group to revise the business plan Rob Walker IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 7 of

8 N/a Ad hoc group on producing documentation from UML models Stephen Low Debbie Wilson Roger Brackin Neil Kirk n/a Ad hoc group on UML best practice Debbie Wilson IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0 Page 8 of

9 Table A5: UK Responses to International Ballots for Standards in 2014 as determined by IST/36 ISO Standard Stage Title ISO Response Deadline DIS Geographic information -- Conceptual schema language Vote Yes with Result of vote in ISO Approved FDIS Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 1: Fundamentals Yes with comment Approved DIS ISO Geographic information - Procedures for item registration - Part 1: Fundamentals Yes w/o comment Approved DIS Draft BS EN ISO Geographic information - Methodology for feature cataloguing Yes w/o comment Approved DIS Geographic information -- Rules for application schema Yes with Approved DIS ISO/CD Geographic information Services Yes with For further processing by ISO/TC 211/WG 4/EC Review ISO/TS 19130:2010 Geographic information -- Imagery sensor models for geopositioning, Systematic review Review ISO/TS 19139:2007 Geographic information -- Metadata -- XML schema implementation, Systematic review DIS ISO/CD Geographic Information - Well known text representation of coordinate reference systems Withdraw For further discussion in TC in Berlin Confirm For further discussion in TC in Berlin No objection forward for DIS ballot IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0a Page 9 of

10 ISO Standard Stage Title ISO Response Deadline DTS ISO/DTS Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 3 XML schema implementation of metadata fundamentals DIS ISO/CD Geographic information Terminology Vote Yes with Yes w/o Result of vote in ISO For further processing by ISO/TC 211/WG 7/EC For further discussion in WG 1/EC DIS Text for DIS, ISO/CD Addressing - Part 1: Conceptual model FDIS Proposal to skip FDIS vote on project 19154, Geographic information - Ubiquitous public access - Reference model Resolution by correspondence NWIP New Work Item Proposal, ISO Geographic information - Spatial schema (revision of ISO 19107:2003) NWIP New Work Item Proposal, ISO Geographic information - Data Quality - XML Schema Implementation of ISO FDIS Geographic information -- Reference model - Fundamentals WD WD , Addressing Part 4: International postal address components and template languages Review Notice of systematic review: ISO :2009 Geographic information -- Metadata -- Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data n/a Guidelines of Best Practice for the Acquisition, Storage, Maintenance and Dissemination of Fundamental Geo-Spatial Datasets Yes w/o Secretariat & editor, to consider the to amend document accordingly, and forward for DIS ballot Abstain Approved Approved with Approved Approved Approved Disapproved with Approved No For further consideration by project team For revision n/a IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0a Page 10 of

11 ISO Standard Stage Title ISO Response Deadline Vote n/a Recommendations for the specification of cultural and n/a linguistic adaptability (CLA) in ISO/TC 211 standards Result of vote in ISO DTS ISO/DTS Geographic information -- Content components and encoding rules for imagery and gridded data CD ISO/CD Geographic information -- Place Identifier (PI) architecture -- Part 2: Place Identifier (PI) linking DTS ISO/DTS Geographic information -- Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors -- Part 2: Lidar DTS ISO/DTS , Geographic information Data quality Part 2: XML schema implementation No with No with Disapproved with No with CD target date extended EC met November to re-work CD EC met November EC met November DIS Text for DIS, ISO/CD Geographic information Terminology n/a Amend according to & forward for DIS ballot NWIP New Work Item Proposal, ISO NP, Geographic information Preservation of digital data and metadata DIS Geographic information Well known text representation of coordinate reference systems Yes with Yes with approved approved DIS Addressing - Part 1: Conceptual model approve, no approved Review Spatial referencing by coordinates - Part 2: extension for parametric values Confirm, with correction of errors IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0a Page 11 of

12 ISO Standard Stage Title ISO Response Deadline Review Classification systems -- Part 1- Classification system structure for Review Vote Confirm Result of vote in ISO IST/36 Business Plan 2015 V1.0a Page 12 of