Standards stuff

EFRAG’s proof-of concept taxonomy for sustainability reporting. Energistics ‘up and running’ at The Open Group, V2.3 ‘common’ released. IOGP RP for pore pressure and fracture gradient analysis. Open Footprint Forum update. Metaverse Standards Forum launch. OGC GeoRSS test suite, MoU with OSGeo. Upstream Development and Engineering joins CO-LaN. World Wide Web Consortium reforms as ‘public-interest non-profit’.

European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) has released a proof-of concept XBRL Taxonomy in support of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards, providing the digital definitions needed for selected climate-related disclosure requirements. More from EFRAG.

The Energistics Consortium is ‘up and running’ under the ownership of The Open Group. Ongoing standards development is planned, led, and implemented by Consortium members and facilitated by TOG staff and IT infrastructure. The Consortium has just released a bumper ‘Omnibus’ release of its data transfer standards. The latest versions of WITSML, PRODML and RESQML now available for download. The Omnibus edition includes V2.3 of Energistics Common, a of data objects shared by across the Energistics standards. The Common Technical Architecture has been updated with Energistics Identifier Specification V5.0 and Energistics Packaging Convention V1.1. More from Energistics.

The IOGP has released a new Recommended Practice for pore pressure and fracture gradient analysis (PPFG) for well design, construction, intervention, and abandonment. The guidance document defines a shared language for subsurface and drilling specialists and provides a globally applicable recommended practice for the preparation of PPFG predictions, the definition and communication of associated risks, and uncertainties, and real-time PPFG monitoring. IOGP Report 608 is a free download from the IOGP library.

Following an enquiry into progress by Oil IT Journal, The Open Footprint Forum (OFP) forum kindly provided the following information. ‘Thanks for reaching out and your inquiry on the status of the Open Footprint Forum projects. The MVP2 is under development. MVP1 is being tested.’ OFP has also published a FAQ where we learn that 1) OFP does not use blockchain. 2) OFP is working closely with the Geneva-based World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 3) OFP is Open Sourced on an Apache 2.0 License 2.0. 4) OFP is in contact with OSClimate with a view to cooperation. 5) OFP will support data loading using formats including Manifest, CSV and OPC-UA.

The grandly-titled and massively scoped ‘Metaverse Standards Forum’ has just launched to ‘explore where the lack of interoperability is holding back metaverse deployment’ and how standards bodies can help out. Members include the World Wide Web Consortium, the Open Geospatial Consortium, the Open AR Cloud, the Spatial Web Foundation, and many others. But not Facebook! Oil and gas industry old-timers will appreciate MSF support from the EXPRESS Language Foundation. The MSF is hosted by the Khronos Group which appears to be responsible for the Forum’s privacy policy, which incidentally includes accepting cookies from Facebook!

The Open Geospatial Consortium’s Executable Test Suite for GeoRSS has been approved by the OGC Membership. GeoRSS is ‘a lightweight, community-driven way to extend existing syndication feeds with simple geographic information’ The standard is embedded in Esri’s Geoportal Server and in the pycsw metadata catalog server.

OGC also recently signed a memorandum of understanding with OSGeo marking a ‘significant milestone’ and framework for increased OSGeo participation and interoperability in FOSS4G.

Oil and gas processing plant design and engineering services provider Upstream Development and Engineering has joined the CO-LaN standards body.

The World Wide Web Consortium is mutating from its original ‘hosted’ legal model and is to become a ‘public-interest non-profit organization’, ‘elevating W3C to a level where it rises up stronger’. More on this tortuous turn of events in the release.

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