Hi all,

I'm enclosing an email that Flip Dibner sent me during the TDWG meeting on the OGC effort in the area of 'observations and measurements'. Follow the links below to the documentation. I think they have come up a well though out generalized model that encompasses most of the scenarios I can think of. Perhaps the only down side is the work necessary to pack/unpack data into this form, i.e. as a data exchange standard it looks great, but as an easily understandable working tool it looks heavy.

Jerry *-------------------------------------------------

Jerry,

You can download OGC's O&M Recommendation from their Recommendation Papers page at http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=recommendation . The direct download link is http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1324 . I would draw your attention in particular to Appendix C.5., Ecological Survey.

There is more recent information that I think will accommodate even more of our needs, but I don't have as well organized, and the newest bits are not yet public. I will pull all this together for the sake of the group at large, as suggested by Stan.

Flip

Phillip C. Dibner Ecosystem Associates (650) 948-3537 (650) 948-7895 Fax

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