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Standards provide value in several ways: 1. Standards make geospatial information more understandable and accessible for governments, industry partners, and other stakeholders. 2. Collaboration through standards results in cost savings compared to proprietary systems and allows different systems to work together. 3. Standards stimulate economic activity by supporting new businesses and more affordable products and services.
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- 1. The ‘open’ issue- valueSteven RamageExecutive Director, OGCOSGIS, 22 June 2010University of Nottingham
- 2. Standards are likeparachutes: they work best when they're open. Mary McRae, OASIS
- 3. In our increasinglyconnected world
- 4. How much isgeospatial?
- 5. The open geospatialopportunity
- 6. Copyright © 2010,Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Standards make the distribution of geospatial information understandable — not just for government technologists, managers, and decision support analysts, but for all stakeholders, including industry partners.NASA study key findings, 2005
- 7. locating people andsaving lives = value
- 8. Need to determinevalue
- 9. aip aviation benefitbimbuilding catalogs citygml consortium datadefence disaster earth geosemanticsgeospatialgeoss global grid hydrology ogcopen source information infrastructure security interoperability linked data locationisorights management gmlsecurity metadata standards systems valueweb services meteorology military models observation ocean science search sensor smart grid societal environmental soa
- 10. How do wedefine value?
- 11. Sustainable DevelopmentEducation &ResearchUtilitiesHealth eGovernmentEnergyEmergency ServicesGeosciencesConsumer Services
- 12. Josh Lieberman, TraverseTechnologies –“ Value from the OGC is enabled not just because interoperability projects and test beds take place, but because the OGC has made them possible in the first place. Without the OGC they wouldn’t even have happened. ”
- 13. Knowledge exchange network (termborrowed from EuroGeographics)
- 14. Ian Painter, SnowflakeSoftware - “ Sponsors get incredible value for money through access to multiple sets of experts and technologies. It would cost them a lot more in terms of time and money if they were not able to use the OGC process. Participants also benefit from direct feedback for product research. ”
- 15. Cost savings throughcollaboration
- 16. Kylie Armstrong ,Landgate –“ When you are delivering spatial web services on behalf of 20 government agencies to more than a 1000 organisations running their own spatial systems, you need standards. Using the internationally recognised OGC and ISO standards for both the architecture and web services has been essential to our success. ”
- 17. Tangible measures ofreturn
- 18. Copyright © 2010,Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
- 19. Intangible measures ofreturn
- 20. Locating international displacedpersons Supporting poverty alleviation initiatives Protection from catastrophic loss of records Protection/enhancement of natural resources Improved timeliness and quality of data/services Legal compliance/protection against claims Catalyst for partnerships and information (knowledge) sharing
- 21. Value must bemeasured
- 22. Geospatial Enterprise IntegrationMaturity Model June 24, 2009 (Revision of White Paper originally published March, 2006 by David Sonnen, John Moeller and David LaBranche)
- 23. A value modelfor standards?
- 24. Copyright © 2010,Open Geospatial ConsortiumTotal Cost of Participation
- 25. Standards take timeto develop
- 26. OGC influenceShape thestandards platformGain application/domain awareness Understand user needs and players’ strategic agendasForm partnerships ”Connect the dots" between systems and application domainsUsers – collaborate with providers for well-documented cost savings from using standards-based architecturesUsers – see which companies are serious about the standards that matter to usersCopyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium
- 27. OGC Interoperability ProgramAsponsor's investment is leveraged by the investment of other sponsors, reducing each sponsor's share of the initiative cost Aggregated investment and interest attracts participation of technology providers who contribute resources to develop, test and demonstrate the ability of draft standards to address sponsor interoperability requirementsIntegration at a cost much lower than one-off integration projects Protect technology investmentsCopyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium
- 28. Opportunities for GovernmentsOGCmembership helps governments stimulate economic activityNew businesses contribute to national competitive advantage New products and services and more affordable offerings yield commerce, profit, employment and international competitivenessUsers of products based on open standards compete more effectively in international marketsAs more agencies and private sector partners produce and host data, and as the Web becomes the dominant delivery mechanism,Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) become increasingly useful to governments at all levels and to a growing array of industries The OGC's work in sensor webs, geospatial rights management, service chaining, geosemantics, data quality advances SDIdevelopmentCopyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium
- 29. Copyright © 2010,Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Five value factors – NASA studyDirect user (or customer) value
- 30. Social (or non-direct,public) value
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- 33. Strategic/political valueCopyright ©2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Direct User ValueData availability
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- 35. Broad data sharingcapabilitiesCopyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Social ValueBetter decision making ability
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- 39. Efficient use oftaxpayer resourcesCopyright © 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Government Operational ValueEase of integration
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- 43. Reuse, adaptation andconsolidation
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- 45. IT PerformanceCopyright ©2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Government Financial ValueTotal Cost Savings
- 46. Total Cost AvoidanceCopyright© 2010, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.Strategic/Political ValueClose Working Relationship
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- 49. E-Gov SupportFor every$100 million spent on projects based on proprietary platforms, the same value could have been achieved with $75 million if the projects had been based on open standards.NASA study overall results, 2005
- 50. Note: A 7-pointscale is used (1: Strongly disagree with the benefits; 7: Strongly agree with the benefits.)Prepared by: Xia (UIUC) & Zhao (UNCC), 2009
- 51. Standards decision for technology providersPlan A - Pursue standards. Commit resources. Transition products. Work with competitors and partners.Plan B - Continue working in isolation. Keep proprietary control of customers.
- 52. The standards decision(alternate view)
- 53. Understand, define andcommunicate value
- 54. Thank you forlistening
- 55. Standards help ussave ➼ Time ➼ Money ➼ Energy ➼ Economies ➼ LivesEye on Earth SummitDec 2010, Abu Dhabi
Editor's Notes
- #3 The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is the only body dedicated to geospatial standards only. However, it works in collaboration with a number of other Standards Development Organisations (SDO), such as IEEE, IETF, NCOIC, OGF, ISO, CEN and OASIS.
- #4 The volume of information being exchanged and flowing around the world is phenomenal, but how much of it is open and interoperable?
- #5 Access, discovery, sharing and reuse are key to delivering value for business activities underpinned by geospatial data, software and services.
- #6 First we need to establish the value that geospatial data, software and services bring to the market as a whole. Then we can start to drill down into communities of practice and then determine the value gained at an organisational level in line with their vision and mission.
- #8 How do we place a value on locating international displaced persons, alleviating poverty or saving lives?
- #9 Value changes per industry sector or domain and also on an organisation by organisation basis according to their vision and mission.
- #10 There are so many inputs today for any practitioner in this domain. How do you weight and assign value to all the different areas?
- #13 OGC enables interoperability, which then underpins business activities.
- #14 This is what you get as an integral part of OGC membership – it offers vast opportunities, but difficult to measure.
- #15 If you tried to undertake the activities that the OGC offers as an integral part of the organisational modus operandi, it would be very expensive for both sponsors – who would have to invest in coordinating and possibly paying multiple organisations to address their specific issues and for participants in areas like test beds and interoperability initiatives – who would have a significant presales cost and would not get the structured feedback or involvement of others.
- #16 The cost of setting up test beds or interoperability initiatives without the process and structure offered by the OGC would be crippling for many organisations. It would simply be very expensive for others.
- #17 OGC enables interoperability, which then underpins business activities.
- #18 Traditional ROI – productivity and cost savings, cost avoidance, etc.
- #19 Every event has a knock-on effect, at the most basic and fundamental level this is the loss of life, looking beyond the human aspect then comes the financial impact on areas like insurance and infrastructure redevelopment.
- #20 Starting to play more of a role across all our lives because of natural disasters, such as floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.
- #21 In addition to the traditional ROI measures, there are those areas where value is more difficult to measure because it is not immediately obvious in monetary or financial terms. However, it may be incredibly important in terms an organisation’s vision or mission.
- #22 First we need to establish the value that geospatial data, software and services bring to the market as a whole. Then we can start to drill down into communities of practice and then determine the value gained at an organisational level in line with their vision and mission.
- #23 There are some existing models which incorporate or reference geospatial standards.
- #24 After some desk research it seemed difficult to find such a thing. This was for all standards, not just geospatial standards.
- #25 This is a simple model, but it highlights that there are a number of inputs and outputs that need to be considered. Ideally there would be a model for each community of interest that is then applied at a local or organisational level. This is the objective of the emerging OGC Business Value Working Group.
- #28 These savings come first to participants, later to the public
- #36 The NASA case study compared two approaches. One using open, OGC standards, the other not using them. The non-OGC approach developed a standard for dataexchange and data content only. Most of the usershad standardized on one software platform and datawere published in a popular file format. This formatwas open in the sense that it was published, but it wasproprietary in the sense that it was controlled by one company rather than by community consensus as set forth in US Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-119 (“Memorandum for Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies: Federal Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards and in Conformity Assessment Activities”).
- #38 This was something Sir Tim Berners-Lee presented back in 2005 as part of his W3C work. It is still valid today.
- #40 This is the challenge we all face whether it is for geospatial data, software and services or related to the necessary standards that underpin and facilitate interoperability in these areas.
- #41 Contact me if you agree or disagree
- #42 Standards may even be helping to save our planet