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The Center has been involved in a broad range of geospatial interoperability research and application projects since its creation. From the first, interoperability has been seen as a core "element" in all the Center's efforts. The first Center director, Fred Limp, was one of the founding (1994) members of the board of directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and served on the board till 2005 when he joined the board of directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium's Interoperability Institute (OGC-II -  the research "arm" of OGC). Jim Farley, the Center's original Technical Director, also was a central particant in the international geospatial interoperability community.

The links on the left provide more information on the Center's involvement in interoperability. They include multiple research projects in the OGC "Open Web Services" Initiative (OWS) -- with projects in the OWS 2 and 3  initiative tracks. With support from FGDC, the Center worked with the City of Fort Smith to stand up a OGC web mapping service that was part of the USGS National Map and provided geospatial data into the national map from the City that was current within 24 hours of acquisition.  In another National Map-OGC efforts the Center developed applications and served data that integrated geospatial data from multiple "Mid-America" states.