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Submission Date: 2023-12-22

Approval Date: YYYY-MM-DD

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Category: OGC® Engineering Report

Editors: Mickael Beaufils

OGC Geotech Interoperability Experiment Engineering Report

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This document is not an OGC Standard. This document presents a discussion of technology issues considered in an initiative of the OGC Innovation Program. This document does not represent an official position of the OGC. It is subject to change without notice and may not be referred to as an OGC Standard. However, the discussions in this document could very well lead to the definition of an OGC Standard.

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Geotech Interoperability Experiment

Welcome to the Geotech IE wiki!

This wiki provides an overview of the vision that is built in this Interoperability Experiment.

Please notice this is a work in progress and adjustments are very prone to happen.

Most pages of this wiki are associated to a GitHub issue that you can use for providing feedback.

For more information about the initiative, please see : https://www.ogc.org/projects/initiatives/geotechie --->

Introduction

BIM, GIS & Digital Twins introduce or emphasize several requirements regarding the data. This mostly concern the built environment but also orientate the way the geoscience data are expected to be delivered.

Semantic coherence for Geotechnics and the necessity of models federation

The main concern is about semantics. As also identified as the main criteria of interoperability in the FAIR principles, data shall be described in a non-ambiguous way. Those definitions shall be shared by the community independently from the standard that is used. For that purpose, a federation of model is needed. Then OGC and bSI will derive logical models for OGC based and bSI based (IFC) standards.

This effort would fit into the ongoing collaboration between OGC initiatives and bSI projects on georeferencing, infrastructures alignments, procedural geometries, voxels, etc...

Richard Petrie (bSI), Scott Simmons (OGC)

Although, this project is the opportunity to align with other standards. A non-exhaustive list of them include AGS/AGSi, DIGGS, Geo3DML, GeoValML, BoreholeML, ResqML...

On the OGC side, this project is identified as the main contributor to leverage the OGC based standards. For the moment, the IFC schema extension for Geotechnics is mainly supported by the GeoSubgroup of the IFC Tunnel but it aims to serve all the IFC infrastructure projects.

Geotech IE deliverables

• Conceptual model (Work in Progress): https://github.com/opengeospatial/Geotech/wiki/1-Conceptual-model
• Guidance for the use of OGC APIs (Work in Progress): https://github.com/opengeospatial/Geotech/wiki/OGC-APIs
• Guidance for the display of geotech information in software (TBD)

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