Fwd: [Tc] OGC Adopts ebRIM Application Profile for Catalogues

[James Bryce Clark <jamie.clark@oasis-open.org>]

To:  Registry TC

Received today, from an OGC list to which I subscribe for liaison 
purposes.   FYI and congratulations.  Jamie

~ James Bryce Clark
~ Director of Standards Development, OASIS
~ http://www.oasis-open.org/who/staff.php#clark

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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:44:54 -0400
From: OGC Press <announce@opengeospatial.org>
To: tc@lists.opengeospatial.org, pc@lists.opengeospatial.org

PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For information about this announcement, contact:

Sam Bacharach
Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc
tel: +1-703-352-3938
sbacharach@opengeospatial.org

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Wayland, Mass. April 9, 2008 - The Open Geospatial Consortium,
Inc.® (OGC) membership has approved the OASIS ebRIM (electronic
business Registry Information Model) application profile of the
OpenGIS® Catalogue Service 2.1.2 standard. The Catalogue Standard
specifies a design pattern that allows for the definition of
interfaces called application profiles based on different standards,
such as ZF39.50, ebRIM, UDDI, or ISO metadata, that support the
ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information
(metadata) about geospatial data, services and related information
objects.

The ebRIM application profile was developed and adopted because it
enables catalogs to handle services as well a variety of other
geospatial resource types such as symbol libraries, coordinate
reference systems, application profiles, and application schemas and
geospatial metadata.

The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 345
companies, government agencies, research organizations, and
universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly
available geospatial standards. OpenGIS® Standards support
interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless
and location-based services, and mainstream IT. OGC Standards empower
technology developers to make geospatial information and services
accessible and useful with any application that needs to be
geospatially enabled. Visit the OGC website at
http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
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