The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has announced a survey on the business value of open standards. The survey is a joint effort by two academic researchers who are OGC members and by the OGC Business Value Committee (BVC). Dr. Mu Xia at Santa Clara University and Dr. Kexin Zhao at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte developed the survey based on requirements from the OGC BVC to support their studies on standards effectiveness. The BVC will use a summary of the results to help the OGC better understand the value of the OGC’s open standards and improve its programs for geospatial standards development, compliance testing and outreach.
All OGC members as well as everyone involved with geospatial or location data, software and services are encouraged to participate in the survey. To take the survey,
- if you are a technology user, go here.
- If you are a technology provider (software vendor, system integrator or a consultant), go here.
The survey takes about 10 to 15 minutes to complete. The survey period is 1st November through 18th December 2011. The researchers will summarise the data gathered from the survey, removing all references to individual responses, and make the summary available to OGC Business Value Committee members. An executive summary will be provided to survey respondents.
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