| 5 | | == Open Geospatial Consortium (OCG) == |
| | 5 | === Preamble === |
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| | 7 | As organizations approach UCUM to engage in the development of a standard, it requires significant time commitment by UCUM affiliate personnel to maintain that process in that other organization. |
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| | 9 | Each organizations has their suite of standards, and some have asked for UCUM to advance on the tracks of their respective standard organizations. Because Units of Measure are not constantly changing the effort to maintain UCUM is fairly low. Conversely engaging in processes defined by other organization to create another standard from UCUM take far more effort than actually maintaining UCUM. And there are several of these organizations who have similar plans. E.g. ONTOLOG project is similar. |
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| | 11 | The question is whether UCUM can reasonably pick any one organization to engage in such work or if it would not be better for an organization wishing to reference UCUM in a specific document to provide a draft of such document which references UCUM reproduces the minimum necessary material and describes in detail how the UCUM development and the new proposed status in that other organization would be synchronized and managed. |
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| | 13 | UCUM is deeply honored by the recognition we get from these excellent organizations serving their communities, and we are glad to be considered a part of the solutions that these organizations are offering. We are trying to be reasonably responsive to content requests coming our way from these organizations or other individuals, and want to continue spending most of the modest effort on serving these content proposals. |
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| | 15 | It us understood that organizations considering the adoption of UCUM will sometimes prefer to have certain formal agreements in place and to set up structures to manage the collaboration. UCUM may not always be compatible to these requests. As this page documents, there are many organizations deriving some benefit of UCUM and engaging with any one of them may be difficult if we are not at the same time engaging with all of them. |
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| | 17 | Examples of successful cooperation show that the more focused on content and the more light-weight the management is, the more effective and satisfactory is the cooperation. For example, there are several operations below who have made content requests and whose requests had been making a difference in the UCUM content. Other organizations have referenced UCUM in various standards drafts authored by their members with UCUM providing review and comments and content assistance to these efforts. |
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| | 19 | == Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) == |
| 9 | | Status: an MoU was desired by OCG and drafted earlier this year. |
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| 11 | | 1. OGC staff will facilitate the cooperative submission of UCUM into the OGC consensus standards process. This would require the following activities and tasks |
| 12 | | a. Provide a presentation of the UCUM specification to the OGC membership. |
| 13 | | b. Transform the UCUM document into the OGC document template format. |
| 14 | | c. Submit the UCUM document to the OGC membership for consideration as an OGC Best Practice |
| 15 | | d. Develop a Request for Comment (RFC) submission team to move UCUM into the OGC standards track. |
| 16 | | e. Form an OGC Standards Working Group (SWG) and process the document for approval as an OGC standard |
| 17 | | 2. Cooperatively develop and publish joint outreach materials designed to promote the mission and standards of both organizations, to include but not limited to a best practice paper, white papers, presentations at conferences, etc. |
| 18 | | 3. Cooperative involvement of organizational staff in relevant OGC and RI initiatives, including OGC working groups, testbed activities, or committee processes related to units of measure. |
| 19 | | 4. Determine if the OGC UCUM standard should be submitted to ISO under the terms of reference of the OGC-ISO Class A Liaison agreement. |
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| 21 | | Follow-up from UCUM side has been delayed because of bandwidth issues. As organizations approach UCUM to engage in the development of a standard, it requires significant time committment by UCUM affiliate personnel to maintain that process in that other organization. The engagement in the process to create another standard from UCUM may take more effort than actually maintaining UCUM. And there are several of these organizations who have similar plans. E.g. ONTOLOG project is similar. |
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| 23 | | The question is whether UCUM can reasonably pick any one organization to engage in such work or if it would not be better for an organization wishing to reference UCUM in a specific document to provide a draft of such document which references UCUM reproduces the minimum necessary material and describes in detail how the UCUM development and the new proposed status in that other organization would be synchronized and managed. |
| | 23 | Status: the OGC community was one of the first serious adopters of UCUM for many years. More recently an MoU was desired by OCG and drafted earlier this year. Follow-up from UCUM side has been delayed because of bandwidth issues. |
