The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) membership has approved the OASIS ebRIM (electronic business Registry Information Model) application profile of the OpenGIS® Catalogue Service 2.1.2 standard. The Catalogue Standard specifies a design pattern that allows for the definition of interfaces called application profiles based on different standards, such as ZF39.50, ebRIM, UDDI, or ISO metadata, that support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) about geospatial data, services and related information objects.

Mark Crawford writes, "The UN/CEFACT Context Methodology Project Team is hard at work developing the much needed CCTS Context Methodology. We have completed UN/CEFACT Open Development Process (ODP) Steps 1 and 2 (Requirements are available on our collaboration site. The project is currently in ODP Step 3 - Internal Draft Development. As part of that process, we are evaluating use cases to help us ensure we are meeting our agreed upon requirements as well as the needs of our intended user community (the broad spectrum of CCTS users).