| OGC to create Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group; Public Comment Sought on Draft Charter February 3, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog New SWG will develop an Agriculture Information Model that will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is looking to create an Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group (AIM SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by February 23, 2023. The purpose of the AIM SWG is to develop, publish and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support interoperability of information in the Agriculture Domain, with emphasis on the re-use of generic OGC standards as appropriate. AIM will provide a common language for agriculture applications to harmonize and improve data and metadata exchange by defining the required data elements, including concepts, properties, and relationships relevant to agriculture applications, as well as their associated semantics/meaning for information exchange. GISCafe Industry Predictions for 2023 – Terradepth February 1, 2023 by Sanjay Gangal By Joe Wolfel, Terradepth, CEO Joe Wolfel 2023 Will be the Year We Gain Greater Understanding of Our Oceans By necessity, 2023 will see a dramatic increase in the collection and analysis of geospatial data related to our oceans. Whether the goal is better understanding of climate change mechanisms or the responsible development of offshore renewable energy, improved knowledge of the complex marine ecosystem is critical. Ocean studies have been traditionally stymied by lack of quality marine data – primarily due to the inherent difficulties in subsurface collection operations – and the inability to easily share and analyze the limited ocean data that does exist. Fortunately, 2022 provided a turning point to overcome both these obstacles – and this momentum will only accelerate in 2023. OGC to form GeoDCAT Standards Working Group; Public Comment sought on Draft Charter February 1, 2023 by The Open Geospatial Consortium Blog The GeoDCAT SWG aims to separate a general geospatial profile of DCAT, called GeoDCAT, out from the Europe-specific Application Profile, GeoDCAT-AP. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is in the process of forming a new GeoDCAT Standards Working Group (SWG). Public comment is sought on its draft charter. Comments are due by February 22, 2023. The purpose of the SWG is to revise, publish, and maintain GeoDCAT – a spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT Recommendation – and provide guidance about its use and further specialization. The larger geospatial community will benefit from the standardization of descriptions of geospatial data and access services in DCAT-based data catalogs. DCAT, a vocabulary to describe datasets and services, is the primary means to catalog datasets on the web. Some basic temporal and geographic properties have been adopted within DCAT v2 and planned v3, however these do not address the full range of requirements as identified in the 2019 OGC GeoDCAT-AP Discussion paper. | 