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
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.
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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
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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
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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”)
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… 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
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Interoperability and Standards for our Users*
* e.g. at the ESRI Federal User
Conference in Washington, Feb. 03
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Developing standards is a lot of work
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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.
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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
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Technical Committee 211
 ESRI takes special interest in these standards:
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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
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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.
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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
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Open GIS Consortium
 ESRI
 Principle member
 Actively participates on
 Technical Committee
 Planning Committee
 Board of Directors
 Current chair
 Metadata Working Group (WG)
 Sponsors
 Open Location Services Initiative
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Interoperability Program Development
Initiatives
 ESRI takes special interest in these Initiatives:
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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
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Active Participation in the Development of
OGC specifications
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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
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… 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’
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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
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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
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Metadata Explorer
Geography Network Explorer
OGC HTML Client
ArcExplorer Java Plug-in
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The ArcGIS product family
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Product Architecture and Platform Strategy
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… 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
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Web Services Interoperability Organization
(WS-I)
 ESRI charter member
 Founded by Microsoft and IBM
 Promote web services interoperability across
 Platforms
 Applications
 Programming languages
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Interoperable Web Services
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GIS Interoperability Evolution
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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)
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ESRI is committed to:
 Open standards
 Interoperability
 Locate, understand, and employ data and services
 The sharing and leveraging of knowledge
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Thank you
ESRI Geoinformatik AG
Beckenhofstr. 72
8006 Zürich
http://ESRI-Suisse.ch
www.esri.com
K.Kundert@ESRI-Suisse.ch
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