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2 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium. 2 References The following documents are referenced in this document. For dated references, subsequent amendments to, or revisions of, any of these publications do not apply. For undated references, the latest edition of the normative document referred to applies. OGC 05-078r4, OGC ® Styled Layer Descriptor Profile of the Web Map Service Implementation Specification OGC 05-077r4, OpenGIS Symbology Encoding Implementation Specification OGC 07-147r2, OGC KML ISO 19117:2012, Geographic Information – Portrayal OGC 11-052r4, OGC GeoSPARQL –A Geographic Query Language for RDF Data OGC 05-110, Feature Portrayal Service OGC 11-063r6, OWS-8 CCI Semantic Mediation Engineering Report OGC 12-103r3, OWS-9 CCI Semantic Mediation Engineering Report OGC 14-049, Testbed 10 OWS CCI Ontology Engineering Report OGC 14-106. Unified Geo-data Reference Model for Law Enforcement and Public Safety OGC-15-054 Implementing Linked Data and Semantically Enabling OGC Services Engineering Report In addition to this document, this report includes several OWL Ontology Document files referred in Annex A and Annex B. 3 Terms and definitions For the purposes of this report, the definitions specified in Clause 4 of the OWS Common Implementation Standard [OGC 06-121r3] shall apply. In addition, the following terms and definitions apply. 3.1 feature representation of some real world object or phenomenon Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium. 3 3.2 interoperability capability to communicate, execute programs, or transfer data among various functional units in a manner that requires the user to have little or no knowledge of the unique characteristics of those units [ISO 19119] 3.3 map pictorial representation of geographic data 3.4 model abstraction of some aspects of a universe of discourse [ISO 19109] 3.5 ontology a formal specification of concrete or abstract things, and the relationships among them, in a prescribed domain of knowledge [ISOIEC 19763] 3.6 portrayal portrayal presentation of information to humans [ISO 19117] 3.7 semantic interoperability the aspect of interoperability that assures that the content is understood in the same way in both systems, including by those humans interacting with the systems in a given context 3.8 semantic mediation transformation from one or more datasets into a dataset based on a different conceptual model. 3.9 symbol a bitmap or vector image that is used to indicate an object or a particular property on a map. 3.10 symbology encoding style description to apply to the digital features being rendered 3.11 syntactic interoperability the aspect of interoperability that assures that there is a technical connection, i.e. that the data can be transferred between systems 4 Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium. 4 Conventions

4.1 Abbreviated terms

CAP Common Alert Protocol CCI Cross Community Interoperability EDM Emergency and Disaster Management EDXL Emergency Data Exchange Language ER Engineering Report FPS Feature Portrayal Service GML Geography Markup Language HTML HyperText Markup Language IMS Incident Management System JSON-LD JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data LEAPS Law Enforcement and Public Safety NIEM National Information Exchange Model OGC Open Geospatial Consortium OWL Web Ontology Language OWS-8 OGC Web Services Initiative, Phase 8 OWS-9 OGC Web Services Initiative, Phase 9 RDF Resource Description Framework SDI Spatial Data Infrastructure SE Symbology Encoding SLD Style Layer Descriptor SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System SPARQL SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language Copyright © 2015 Open Geospatial Consortium. 5 SVG Scalable Vector Graphics URI Unique Resource Identifier URL Uniform Resource Locator URL Uniform Resource Name WFS Web Feature Service WKT Well Known Text WMS Web Map Service

4.2 UML notation

Some diagrams that appear in this standard are presented using the Unified Modeling Language UML static structure diagram, as described in Subclause 5.2 of [OGC 06- 121r3].