08-26, 15:15–15:45 (Europe/Rome), Room Limonaia
Over the past several decades a significant number of geospatial datasets have been published on the Web. Many of those datasets were published through implementations of classic OGC Web Service standards. As time has gone past, the architecture of web applications has evolved, propelled by new Web and Internet standards. This evolution of web application architecture has led to a revolution in how geospatial datasets are published on the Web. To ensure that the revolution in geospatial data publication has interoperability at its core, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed a series of Web Application Programming Interface (API) standards.
The OGC API suite of standards is a family of specifications that have been designed as modular building blocks that spatially enable Web APIs that offer access to spatial data and implementations of geospatial algorithms. These revolutionary APIs make location information more accessible than ever before through the use of the OpenAPI specification for describing interfaces. The use of the OpenAPI specification means that implementations of OGC API Standards can describe themselves to levels of detail previously unachievable through the classic OGC Web Service standards. Such an ability to self-describe is significant because it has enabled software developers from a variety of disciplines to implement OGC API Standards to address the needs of their communities.
This presentation will provide an overview of the background, current status, and future plans for the development of OGC API Standards. The presentation will describe plans for the development of resources that improve the ability of developers to implement OGC API Standards. The presentation will also present a selection of case studies of open source software that has been implemented or enhanced during OGC Innovation activities such as testbeds, hackathons, and sprints (including the 2022 Joint Code Sprint organised by OGC, OSGeo and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)).
Joana is a software engineer with more than fifteen years experience and a strong expertise in the field of geospatial tech and analytics.
After acquiring a PhD in GIS, at UCL, her drive to solve real-world problems has led her to SMEs, an international organisation, a research foundation and a start-up. Joana has been very involved with FOSS, in particular in what concerns geospatial. This has led her to become a charter member of OSGeo. Joana is the founder of ByteRoad, a SME in the field of data engineering and geospatial analytics. She is also a reviewer for the European Commission, and has been involved in education, teaching the next generation of full-stack developers and data analysts. As Developer Relations at OGC, Joana is responsible for connecting the OGC standards with the wider developer community, hopefully increasing their adoption and contributing towards making them more developer-friendly.
Athina has presented internationally on geo-information management topics, mainly in the areas of networking within the community, OGC processes, interoperability, innovation and standards.
She has a diploma in Geography and started working in the field of GIS in 1998 in the private sector. In 2006, she joined OGC and since 2008 she is charter member of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). In 2009 she was appointed OGC’s Director for European Services, adding Central Asia and Africa in 2015.