Welcome to the OAGi Working Groups page. The best way to engage with OAGi is to participate and/or lead a Working Group.

If you are interested in joining any of these Working Groups, or in starting a new Working Group, please write to us here. 

OAGi has a specific, repeatable development process that all of these Working Groups follow. It contains four phases: 

1.     Project Definition
2.     Construction
3.     Review and Approval
4.     Publication 

You can learn more about or development methodology here. 

Participation on Working Groups is a privilege of membership. If you are not already an OAGi member, you can learn more by clicking here. 

Working Groups

Mobile, Cloud, and JSON Working Group - This group meets every other Thursday at 4 PM Eastern US time.  The scope includes:

- Mobile Business Case Studies as examples
- Working with Solution Providers to support OAGIS JSON based apps on mobile devices
- OAGIS Apps for mobile devices from OAGi and its members
- Changes to the OAGIS BOD architecture to provide improved support for cloud
- JSON based instances of the OAGIS BODs
- A JSON tool converter
- JSON Naming and Design Rules (NDR) similar to the current OAGIS XSD NDR
- REST processing guide for OAGIS

Chem eStandards WG – Responsible for maintaining the Chem eStandards. 

Quality Assurance Working Group – This is a standing Working Group who reviews all Working Group deliverables. This is the key WG that ensures consistency across of all of the OAGIS standards activities. 

OAGIS Release 10 Working Group - The OAGIS Release 10 Working Group meets every Friday from 10 AM to 12 Noon Eastern Standard Time. TWorking Group meets every Friday, 10 AM to 12 PM Eastern Time.

Download the OAGIS Release Ten Project Definition here. 

OAGIS Certified Professional Developer Program - This a new initiative and we are building training classes and tests in order for people to become OAGIS Certified Professional Developers.

Join Us

If you are interested in joining any of these Working Groups, or in starting a new Working Group, please write to us here.