RE: Minutes of the June 7 2005 GIS SC Teleconference

["Carl Reed OGC" <creed@opengeospatial.org>]

In attendance: Carl Reed, Michelle Raymond, Tom Merkle, Art Botterell, Gary Ham, Rex Brooks, Adam Hocek, Dave Ellis, Kon Wilms

 

Note: A Quorum was present

 

We had a wide ranging discussion WRT EDXL, distribution element, and TargetID. We discussed use cases as a mechanism to provide a foundation and context for domain use of EDXL/distribution elements.

 

. There is agreement that use cases will be very useful and are required. This is because the uses and environments of use for EDXL are incredibly diverse.

. Agreement that an overarching (executive summary) for EDXL is needed. Rex pointed out that Michael Daconta's work is an excellent place to start.

. This led to conversation about next week's Data Reference Model Public Forum and a variety of presentations and discussions at that meeting that have relevance to the ongoing EDXL work, such as the relationship between EDXL, FEA, and network centric architectures.

. This led to agreement that EDXL needs to work in network architectures, server centric architectures, combinations of both.

. There was also discussion about the use of RDF and the importance of using RDF to better express rules. Agreement that this is important.

. Action: Carl to provide information on Open Source Geospatial 2005 conference (done).

. Action: Michelle to provide some use cases when appropriate.

. Action: Others to keep an eye out for and provide use cases.

 

Respectfully submitted

 

Carl Reed, PhD
CTO and Executive Director Specification Program
OGC

 

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