Apologies were received from Les Rackham (Individual Capacity Geographic Information), Doug Specht (BCS), Nick Nisbet (liaison B/555)

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1 For information PRIVATE CIRCULATION IST/36_16_0194 Minutes of IST/36 meeting of 3 rd October 2016 Attending: Peter Parslow, Committee Chair () Alex Babington, Meeting Secretary, AGI (AB) Neil Silley, GeoPlace (NS) Rob Walker, Chariman CEN/TC 287 (RW) Roger Lott, UK Expert IST/TC 211 Control body for the geodetic registry network (RL) (via conference call) James Reid, UK Location Programme (JR) (via conference call) Vanessa Tatler CSC (items 1-6 only) (CSC) 1. Apologies Apologies were received from Les Rackham (Individual Capacity Geographic Information), Doug Specht (BCS), Nick Nisbet (liaison B/555) 2. To review the Constitution and Membership i. To welcome and note new organisations and people Action 16/08 for and CSC to pass Iain McKay's details to CSC for inviting onto the Committee. The committee welcomes Iain McKay from The Improvement Service representing the views of Scottish Local Government, Iain has already joined the monthly conference call on 5 th September. ii. To monitor the status of invitations for organizations and people to join the committee Action 15/14 for and AB to review attendees and memberships. and AB have reviewed the membership and attendees of the Committee. Members who have not attended or sent apologies to the meetings for some time were contacted. As a result, Ian Curington (liaison to IDT/1) requested to be removed from the Committee; Neil Wharton (MoD) would like to remain on the Committee and will hopefully be able to attend more meetings due to the increased use of conference facilities. AB is now awaiting the responses from several other members. Action: to contact Andrew Trigg directly Action: to chase Ulric Wilson Action 16/09 for to make further contact with BGS concerning NERC membership. has contacted the BCS location SIG, who want a nominee in IST/36 and are currently looking for the most appropriate person. iii. To consider those organisations no longer represented and the impact on the balance of representations of the Committee

2 Action 16/05 for to look for someone to nominate to XML Maintenance Group. has not managed to find anyone, the committee agreed that there will not be an IST/36 nominee to the group. Action 16/11 for to contact Neil Wharton (MoD) about being nominated to ISO/TC 211 ad hoc group on classification issues is still outstanding Action carried forward 3. Standing items i. Conflicts of Interest declared a conflict of interest stating that Ordnance Survey (OS) pay for his time and expenses to attend the meeting but he is not representing OS. ii. Declarations of IPR for published standards and work in progress None 4. Future meetings i. Quarterly meetings at BSI Previously confirmed Confirmed Monday 9 th January 2017 Monday 3 rd April 2017 Monday 3 rd July 2017 Monday 2 nd October 2017 ii. Monthly telephone conference Confirmed 9:30, Monday, 7 th November :30, Monday, 5 th December To confirm the minutes of the meeting held 4 th July 2016 Confirmed 6. Committee leadership i. Committee chair submitted a report (ecommittees link)as detailed below Report / notes to IST/36 for October 2016

3 See also: SIG Report, September 2016 (in Members drop-in box on ecommittees since 7th Sep) B/555 Strategy Group Next meeting has been moved to 29 Nov 2016, and clashes with TC211 plenary week; it would to ensure we have someone there. OGC Personal notes i.e this is just what I have personally been involved in since our July meeting. We ll discuss how IST/36 should best remain informed about activity at OGC ESPRESSO An EC funded project with a consortium led by OGC, looking at standards relevant to smart cities, proposing a reference architecture, and then aiming to test it in a couple of pilots. Some consortium partners more active than others. Several documents delivered to the EC, but only one on their website so far: Working closely with the European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities, and (now) with ISO/IEC JTC1/WG11 who seem to have accepted the idea that a layer of positioning services is needed to ensure a common understanding of location. ISO/IEC JTC1/WG11 Smart Cities Attended this representing OGC; Morten Borrebaek (Norway) was due to attend for TC211. I made his liaison presentation for him. See OGC liaison report from ISO/IEC JTC1/WG11 meeting, June 2016, Cagliari, Italy, Peter Parslow, 27 Sep 16 (in Members drop-in box on ecommittees since 28th Sep) which I ve also shared with Morten. UK & Ireland Forum One phone meeting, with only a few people attending. Upcoming meetings: 10th October, at the Met Office in Exeter 24th November, suggested smart cities forum at the Innovation Hub in London 13th December (4pm on), Christmas drinks, at the Innovation Hub in London UK Open Geo Standards Forum I have posted once or twice a month in the LinkedIn forum, but it s three months since I ve seen anyone even so much as like one of the posts. Once again, I ask if it s worth continuing? SDS/2 Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Met in July, but I was on holiday. It would be good to arrange a deputy: they have requested this. Very active by , as it shadows several international committees. Ongoing projects of geo-spatial interest: ISO/IEC JTC1 NWIPs for ontologies, including something on place

4 ISO/IEC JTC1/WG11 projects (see above) Other BSI PAS 183 Guide to establishing a decision making framework for sharing data and information services Out for public comment. Some of us had commented on earlier drafts, so may wish to look again. Comments (online) by 21st October. There is only one small section on spatial data, and little other geographical content. PAS 256 On exchanging data about underground assets; this is progressing slowly through hundreds of comments including our own. It will be a best practice guide (rather than a specification), and even then it has quite low expectations. This is the deliberate choice of the steering group, who feel that if the requirements are more challenging, take up will be even lower. There is some talk of producing something a bit more ambitious in a couple of years, presumably if a reasonable body of organisation at least start sharing something. BSI / China Smart Cities collaboration project BSI hosted three days of workshops with many of the Chinese delegates to WG11. We were welcome (and expected) there. And then a couple of UK people repeated the exercise in China. The intention is that they work out good ways to cooperate in standards development, with WG11 being the initial test case. Upcoming standards forum, November 17th: I think it would be good if some of IST/36 go, but I m on holiday ii. AGI Secretariat Report Action 14/22 for AB to update the website. Previous minutes have been uploaded to the website and additional content added. iii. Secretariat support through CSC Action 16/12 for CSC to contact Chair of SVS4 for comments on ISO (Addressing -- Part 4: International postal address components and template languages). CSC contacted SVS4, they had no comments. The BSI Standards Forum is to be held on Thursday, 17 th November 2016 in London. The Forum is an opportunity to discuss recent developments in standards, network with committee members across the entirety of BSI and hear from experts on hot topics. Further information can be found on the website /. 7. Outreach i. Business Plan The 2017 Business Plan is due to be drafted Action: to draft 2017 Business Plan for January quarterly meeting Action: All to let know of anything to include in 2017 Business Plan

5 ii. Communication Plan 8. British Standards i. BS7666 Action 16/13 for all to review the Communication Plan. The committee discussed the purpose and effectiveness of the communication plan. The committee felt the LinkedIn group set up some time ago and then put on hold for the UK Open Geo Standards Forum should be closed. Greater awareness of the OGC UK and Ireland forum would be helpful along with information on the INSPIRE Statutory Instrument and issues governing INSPIRE compliance. It was also agreed to try and make better use of AGI news items and potential social media to get wider coverage of IST/36 activities. It was noted that presentation on IST/36 and Standards is in need of updating. The committee should then look for opportunities to present to potentially interested parties, the AGI SIGs where deemed to be a sensible place to start. Action: AB update IST/36 presentations Action: AB to contact AGI SIGs regarding interest in IST/36 activities Action: to update communications plan and circulate for review Action 16/14 for NS to pass draft of UK profile of BS 7666 conforming to ISO to RW for review and comment has been completed. RW suggested viewing other profiles. NS is updating the format and will have the profile ready for submission soon with the XML schema to follow. Action: NS to submit BS 7666 profile AB provided an update on the BS 7666 review, the final comments from OS are due this week at which point RW will collate the comments ready for the subcommittee to start review. AB will set up a conference call for the subcommittee to plan the next stage. BSI have not officially started the review. ii. UK GEMINI LR submitted a report. Report on the project for the consolidation of GEMINI and UK INSPIRE metadata profile documentation Having cleared all the funding hurdles with Defra, the project to consolidate and publish via AGI s website all documentation for UK GEMINI and the related UK INSPIRE metadata profile has been started at last, nearly a year late. This will provide much better access to the documentation and will enable users to navigate a path through the documentation according to their particular use case e.g. GEMINI metadata compiler, UK INSPIRE metadata compiler, metadata tool developer. Further, editing of the documentation will be simpler because it will be held and managed in one place the AGI website. The contractors for the project are HR Wallingford Ltd who bid successfully for the work in October of A kick-off meeting was held with the project team at HR Wallingford on 6th September. AGI were represented by Peter Parslow (Chair of the

6 AGI Standards Committee) and Les Rackham (AGI Project Manager). The meeting was successful in that it clarified a number of issues and also established the need to close liaison with the AGI team and its website developers Web Foundry if the transition to the AGI website is to be successful. Inevitably, this will require some work from Web Foundry including the establishing of a test area on the AGI website whilst ensuring the security of the main website. HR Wallingford and Web Foundry have already met and, so far, the latter have provided HR Wallingford with all their immediate requirements. At the moment, preliminary work has been done as part of Web Foundry s support, there may be additional work needed. This aspect is being managed by Abi Page. The project is planned to complete on or before mid-december this year. Its successful completion within this time-frame places an onus on the Metadata Working Group of the AGI Standards Committee to turn around queries from the contractors as they consolidate the documentation, feed back comments on demonstrations of prototypes and also conduct the acceptance testing within a tight timescale. To this end, the Metadata Working Group is being reconvened in early October so that members are fully briefed and roles and responsibilities agreed. 9. ISO/TC 211 i. Recent ballots and comments See latest Ballot sheet ii. Votes pending See latest Ballot sheet RL notes that there were four ballots that were not yet on ecommittees and as such not in the Ballot sheet Action: AB to check with CSC when documents appear on ecommittees Geographic information Spatial schema. Previously voted no with comments, will wait for the discussion at the plenary Geographic information -- Reference model -- Part 2: Imagery. check whether comments have been accepted, if they haven t then submit them again else wait for the discussion at the plenary Geographic information Imagery sensor models for geopositioning - Part 1: Fundamentals. Did not vote before, will wait for the discussion at the plenary Geographic information Metadata Part 2: Extensions for acquisition and processing. Post meeting note: was thought to have had a longer date but after the meeting it was discovered that this was an error on the ISO website. to handle as part of iii. Review nominations to working groups and PTs

7 10. CEN/TC 287 See latest Ballot sheet Action 15/27 for AB to contact experts nominated to project teams for an update. AB completed this action and the comments received can be found on the latest Ballot sheet. AB will make this part of the preparation for future quarterly meetings. Action 16/16 for AB to remind nominees to ISO/TC211 project teams in advance of each meeting to be prepared to report on their project(s). AB contacted nominees as part of action 15/27. Again AB will make this part of the preparation for future quarterly meetings. iv. 43rd ISO/TC 211 meeting in Redlands, CA, USA /12-02 RL and will be attending in person. Mark Greaves will be joining meetings remotely. RW is unable to attend in person as AITS funding will not cover the costs, he will instead be attending remotely. None 11. Other activities Action 16/17 for to contact those reporting on other activities and BSI committees to submit written reports before each meeting. AB contacted members and several reports were received. This will become part of the preparation for future quarterly meetings. i. INSPIRE Unfortunately, due to technical issues with the conference call JR was unable to report on INSPIRE ii. OGC Action 16/06 for to share OGC UK and Ireland Forum for the coming year has been completed. It was commented that OGC is far too big to create a report for. It was agreed that future reports should only contain high level information and anything specific to IST/36. See Chairman s report in 8ii for what has been involved in with OGC. It was noted that there has been limited collaboration with the OGC UK & Ireland Forum and that non OGC members should be encouraged to attend the meetings. iii. British Cartographic Society Doug Specht submitted a brief update on BCS. The society has been through a complete rebranding now, and this is pretty much all in place, including the new website. The annual conference (with SoC) was well attended and from what I understand went very well. Our schools outreach project, restless earth, has also had a redesign to bring it in line with the new Geography

8 GCSE curriculum. A few of those new workshops have now taken place and have been well received. iv. UK Open Geo Standards Forum will close the LinkedIn group as it is very quiet. will concentrate effort on the OGC UK & Ireland Forum instead. v. BIM Nick Nisbet submitted a concise update on BIM Multiple discussions between Buildingsmart (international and uki) and OS. Good progress on IFC<->GIS studies (ifc4 model setup led by Australia, IFG project led by Norway). B555 strategy group looking for best routes to standardisation for level 3 integrated working. Comments on PAS256 made. Launch of UK BIM alliance imminent. Little progress on: survey4bim 5 issues. Links with AGI/BGS 12. Other BSI committees i. B/555 Construction design, modelling and data exchange (BIM) See 11v ii. SDS/2 Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities See Chairman s report in 8ii SDS/2 has request a deputy for when is unable to attend meetings, the group shadows three international committees, they are very active on s. They currently have only one NWIP that has a place ontology Action: to send out a request for a deputy 13. To review the matters arising from the Minutes of the meeting held on 4th July 2016 See Actions Table below 14. Any other business RW has found the notes from the very first meeting of the committee 25 years ago with RW as one of those original members. The committee thanked Rob for his long standing expert input into not just British geographic standards but CEN and ISO standards too. Actions table 7 th July 2014 meeting Action Agenda Action Person Progress number item 14/22 6ii Update website with feedback received AB 13 th April 2015 meeting

9 Action Agenda Action Person Progress number item 15/14 2 Review attendees and memberships & AB 5 th October 2015 meeting Action Agenda Action Person Progress number item 15/27 9iii Contact nominated experts for a project update AB 4 th April 2016 meeting Action Agenda Action Person Progress number item 16/05 2 Look for someone to nominate to XML Maintenance Group 16/06 11ii Share OGC UK and Ireland Forum for coming year 4 th July 2016 meeting Action number Agenda item Action Person Progress 16/08 2ii Pass Iain McKay's details to CSC for inviting onto the Committee 16/09 2ii Make further contact with BGS concerning NERC membership 16/10 2iii Pass amended table of ISO nominations to Secretary 16/11 2iii to contact Neil Wharton (MoD) about being nominated to ISO/TC 211 ad hoc group on classification issues 16/12 6iii Contact Chair of SVS4 for comments on ISO /13 7ii Review the Communication Plan before the next meeting and Secretary to include on the agenda of the next meeting 16/14 8i Pass draft of UK profile of BS 7666 conforming to ISO to RW for review and comment 16/15 9ii Request Secretary to exclude calls for nominations from the ballot sheet 16/16 9iii Secretary should remind nominees to ISO/TC 211 project teams in advance of each meeting to be prepared to report on their project(s) 16/17 12 Contact those reporting on other activities and BSI committees to submit written reports before each CSC CSC All members Secretary NS Secretary c/f

10 meeting 3 rd October 2016 meeting Action number Agenda item Action Person Progress 16/18 2ii Contact Andrew Trigg regarding Land Registry membership 16/19 2ii Contact Ulric Wilson regarding MEDIN membership 16/20 7i Draft 2017 Business Plan for January quarterly meeting 16/21 7i Let know if there is anything specific to include in the draft business plan All 16/22 7ii Update IST/36 presentations AB 16/23 7ii Contact AGI SIGs to check for any interest in IST/36 activities 16/24 7ii Update communication plan and circulate for review 16/25 8i Submit BS 7666 profile of ISO to project team 16/26 7ii Check with CSC when documents are uploaded to ecommittees 16/27 12 ii Send out a request for a deputy to SDS/2 AB NS AB