New liaison named and the benefits from connecting with other organizations
To effectively develop OSDU® Forum work products and standards, The Open Group OSDU Forum needs to communicate with various peer organizations to ensure that our efforts align with broader industry activity. The OSDU Forum facilitates this uniformity through The Open Group Liaison Agreements with other Standards Development Organizations, Consortia, and Industry / Professional bodies for the mutual benefit of all.
The OSDU Forum Liaison representatives communicates relevant information from the OSDU Forum to their liaison group to provide:
- Swift information flow
- An open channel between both parties
- Representative interest of both parties in the alliance
Our Liaisons
We are pleased to announce two new liaisons:
- GMG (Global Mining Guidelines Group) – Dale Harris (AngloGold Ashanti)
- PPDM (Professional Petroleum Data Management Association) – Samir Jain (dataVediK)
As well as the full list of liaisons:
- SEG (Society of Exploration Geoscientists) – Jill Lewis (Troika)
- B4E (Blockchain For Energy Consortium) – Patrick Meroney (Katalyst Data Management)
- Wind Energy IEC TC 88/JWG25 – Chris Hough (BP)
- OPC (Open Platform Communication) Foundation – Kadri Umay (Microsoft)
Promoting a greater good
Many groups have already established standards and best practices for the space that the OSDU Forum operates within, and it is mutually beneficial to use these and ensure alignment with the work of other groups. Similarly, the OSDU Forum wants to ensure that adoption of OSDU standards and best practices by other groups. The liaison representatives play a critical role to ensure strong communication channels exist to make this happen.
Channel for consensus
OSDU Forum Liaison representatives are drawn from the OSDU Members and serve an unlimited term. Their mandate is to convey the consensus-based OSDU work products to the liaised organization.
Some tasks include:
- Attend relevant meeting and gather / share information relevant to the liaison relationship
- Understand any concerns between the liaison groups and help to facilitate solutions
- Assist with preparation of liaison statements to communicate OSDU Forum consensus, direct statements appropriately and in a timely fashion.
- Generating reports to share back with the OSDU Forum
It is important to note that the liaison representatives do not have an executive authority to make commitments on behalf of the Open Group nor to direct its staff.
The Open Group has additional information available on the Liaison Program.
Benefits
The Liaison program provides key benefits to parties. Acceleration of the integration of ideas and solutions benefits all. Improved communication of activities is important to support problem solving. The work of the liaisons is much appreciated!
Congratulations to our newest liaisons, Dale Harris and Samir Jain, and thank you for being our voice with your respective liaison organizations
