ESRI – Interoperability and Standards

1. ESRI – Interoperability and Standards Workshop Standards in Action: Thun, 2003-05-21 Kaspar Kundert Managing Director ESRI Geoinformatik AG, Zürich © 05/2003 ESRI Geoinformatik AG

2. ESRI participates in several standard organizations worldwide and acknowledges that standards help ESRI's users to be successful in their day-to-day GIS operations. The following presentation will give an overview on the company, our products and supported standards with a focus on ISO/TC 211.

3. ESRI internationally • founded 1969 by Jack Dangermond • Pioneer and Leader in GIS-Development • 1981: ARC/INFO • 2001: ArcGIS (Platform) • > 2‘200 employees • privately held • doing business in 180 Countries • > 1’000’000 users daily

4. ESRI in Switzerland • opened in 1992 to support ESRI Inc.’s operations in Switzerland • Offices in Nyon and Zurich • Clients in the public and … • Confederation, Cantons, Cities and Communes • the private sector,… • Cablecom, NOK, Syngenta, Swiss Re, Zürcher Kantonalbank, … • amongst International Organizations and Universities • 12 official partners

5. GIS back in the early nineties… • Geographic analysis • Project oriented • Multiple sources, multiple organizations • Distributed within a community • GIS is unique in merging diverse information • ESRI’s Coverage and Shapefile emerged as industry standard (“de-facto Norm”)

6. … GIS today • Enterprise GIS • GIS evolving beyond isolated communities • GIS merging with broader IT infrastructures • Enabled by distributed networks and Web Services • Requires international interoperability – standards ESRI’s commitment to Interoperability and Standards supports the transition from Geographic Analysis to Enterprise GIS

7. Interoperability and Standards for our Users* * e.g. at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington, Feb. 03

8. Developing standards is a lot of work

9. ESRI committed a large Team to Standards and Interoperability • David Danko - standards organizations manager at ESRI • S.J. Camarata - strategic level (OGC Board of Directors) • Mike Tait - Program manager for Web services and LBS standards • Marwa Mabrouk - chief scientist for open standards • Anna Mikhailova – standards consultant • Several dozen software development staff who track, design and engineer the implementation standards into our products.

10. ESRI Actively Participates in… ISO – International Organization for Standardization OGC – Open GIS Consortium W3C – World Wide Web Consortium ANSI – American National Standards Institute IHO– International Hydrographic Organization WS-I – Web Services Interoperability Organization OMA– Open Mobile Alliance (formerly LIF) WLIA – Wireless Location Industry Association FGDC – Federal Geographic Data Committee GSDI – Global Spatial Data Infrastructure CEN – Committee for European Normalization DGIWG – Digital Geographic Information Working Group EPSG – European Petroleum Survey Group ACSM – American Congress on Surveying and Mapping ASPRS – American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing STIA – Spatial Technologies Industry Association

11. ISO 19125 - Simple feature access – Part 1-3 ISO 19126 - Profile - FACC Data Dictionary ISO 19127 - Geodetic codes and parameters ISO 19128 - Web Map Server Interface ISO 19131 - Data product specification ISO 19132 - Location based services possible standards ISO 19133 - Location based services tracking and navigation ISO 19136 - Geographic mark-up language ISO 19138 - Data quality measures ISO 19139 - Metadata Implementation Specification ISO 19140 - TS to harmonize stds. ISO 19103 - Conceptual schema language ISO 19106 - Profiles ISO 19107 - Spatial schema ISO 19108 - Temporal schema ISO 19109 - Rules for application schema ISO 19110 - Feature cataloguing methodology ISO 19111 - Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO 19113 - Quality principles ISO 19114 - Quality evaluation procedures ISO 19115 - Metadata ISO 19118 – Encoding ISO 19119 - Services ISO 19123 - Schema for coverage geometry and functions Technical Committee 211 • ESRI takes special interest in these standards:

12. ISO Active Participation* • ESRI provides leadership role in ISO TC 211 Standards Development for… • ISO 19115: Metadata • ISO 19125: Simple Feature Access • Part 1 – Common Architecture • Part 2 – SQL Option • ISO 19139: Metadata – Implementation Specification • Compliant with ISO JTC SC 32: ISO/IEC 13249-3: 1999 • SQL Multimedia and Application Packages – Part 3: Spatial * ESRI actively participates through ANSI-INCITS-L1

13. Open GIS Consortium • Principle member • Actively participates on • Technical Committee • Planning Committee • Board of Directors • Current chair • Metadata Working Group (WG) • Sponsors • Open Location Services Initiative • ESRI

14. Interoperability Program Development Initiatives • Web map test beds 1 & 2 • Geospatial Fusion Service Pilot Project • Civil Works Technology Insertion (CTI) • Conformance and Testing • Object Domain Modeling Support Initiative (ODMS) • Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) • OGC Web Services Initiative (OWS) 1, 1.2 • Open Location Services (OpenLS) • Open GIS Feature Geometry (RFP-12) • Military Pilot Project Phase 1 (MPP-1) • Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development (GISD) • Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (CIPI) 1, 2 • ESRI takes special interest in these Initiatives:

15. Active Participation in the Development of OGC specifications • Simple Feature specification • Catalog Services specification • Grid Coverage Access specification • Geography Mark-up Language (GML) recommendation • OpenLS suite of specifications • Location Utility • Geocoding • Reverse Geocoding • Directory • Routing • Presentation

16. … participation in these organizations is ok, but why is ESRI spending money on it? • User requirements • Allows users to share information and operate with others • Flexibility – multiple environments • All ESRI’s development has been based on open systems and interoperability • Multiple platforms • Integrated with all major DBMS’ • …

17. Standards (included) in our products = Standards in Action I. ISO 19115 Metadata Standard: • ArcGIS Desktop: ArcCatalog • Create, edit, and manage ISO metadata • ArcIMS Metadata Services • Create a central, online metadata repository serving ISO metadata • Metadata Explorer: customizable, browser-based means of searching ISO metadata

18. Standards (included) in our products = Standards in Action II. ESRI Products implementing OGC specs: • ArcGIS • ArcSDE • Simple Feature Access • ArcIMS • Web Map Server connector • Web Feature Server connector • Metadata Server • Metadata Explorer • Geography Network Explorer • OGC HTML Client • ArcExplorer Java Plug-in

19. The ArcGIS product family

20. Product Architecture and Platform Strategy

21. … participation in Standard organizations is ok, but why is ESRI spending money on it? • User requirements • Allows users to share information and operate with others • Flexibility – multiple environments • All development has been based on open systems and interoperability • Multiple platforms • Integrated with all major DBMS’ • Sets a strong foundation for our movement into web services

22. Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) • ESRI charter member • Founded by Microsoft and IBM • Promote web services interoperability across • Platforms • Applications • Programming languages

23. Interoperable Web Services

24. GIS Interoperability Evolution

25. http://www.esri.com/standards • ESRI Standards and Interoperability Website • Information and News • Download center • WMS Connector • WFS Connector • AEJ OGC Plug-in • Forum for open connector development • “ESRI’s continued Commitment to Standards and Interoperability” (ArcUser April – June 2003; p. 32-45)

26. ESRI is committed to: • Open standards • Interoperability • Locate, understand, and employ data and services • The sharing and leveraging of knowledge

27. Thank you ESRI Geoinformatik AG Beckenhofstr. 72 8006 Zürich http://ESRI-Suisse.ch www.esri.com K.Kundert@ESRI-Suisse.ch