Proposal for OGC blog

[Martin Desruisseaux <ma...@geomatys.fr>]

Hello all

Following on the ApacheConf talk acceptance, below is a proposal for the 
OGC blog. Does anyone has comment, things to add, remove or change 
before to submit to OGC?

     Martin

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This year's Apache conference North America, produced in partnership 
with the Linux Foundation, will happen in Colorado [1] one week after 
the OGC meeting. For this conference, an introduction to OGC, GeoAPI [2] 
and an Apache project that uses OGC standards [3] will be presented [4]. 
This talk will hopefully be an opportunity to improve awareness about 
standards outside the geospatial experts community, and encourage the 
development of implementation-neutral (as much as possible) application 
programming interfaces and test suite for libraries.

With this talk, we hope to provide a big picture of standardization 
efforts, identify where some of the complexity stands, and how a 
carefully designed API can hide some of it. In particular, we will 
compare the complexity of using the XML Schema Definition (XSD) 
available on-line to that of using UML as the source for application 
programming interfaces. Finally, attendees can expect an overview of 
test suites, including the GIGS (Geospatial integrity of geoscience 
software) tests [5], that may help them to increase their confidence in 
the georeferencing performed by their applications.

The talk will end with the presentation of Apache Spatial Information 
System (SIS) as a work in progress toward a Java library for developing 
geospatial applications which conform to OGC standards. This 
presentation will focus on metadata (ISO 19115), georeferencing by 
coordinates (ISO 19111) and the future roadmap based on code already 
available in other projects.

[1] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/
[2] http://www.geoapi.org
[3] http://sis.apache.org/
[4] http://sched.co/1bsTRoN
[5] http://www.epsg.org/gigs.html