"Dance in the Country" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883. Part of the permanent collection at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. This artwork was currently on display in a traveling exhibit at the The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City for a limited time. #OGC #paintingoftheday

26 March 2026 | Support for HEIF as an imagery format in web browsers | Calendar The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.

Join us online at #W3C Breakouts Day today to discover how High Efficiency Image File #HEIF benefits still & motion imagery including optimised image tiling for web maps & accessible geospatial video metadata in web browsers www.w3.org/events/meeti... #OGC #NGA

#WantedWednesday "Jardin des Plantes" by Adolph Menzel, 1869. Originally owned by Jewish businessman Alfred Sommerguth, the painting was sold in 1939 to pay a“flight tax” that would allow Alfred and his family to leave Germany. Current whereabouts are unknown. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime

Greek art dealer, Giorgos Tsagkarakis, has been arrested on charges of art forgery and antiquities trafficking following a police investigation. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking

greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/21/g...

"Labourage nivernais" by Rosa Bonheur, 1849. Currently located at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #lootedartifacts #artfraud #artrecovery #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday "Thaw" by Claude Monet, date unknown. Originally located in Meissen, Germany, it was part of a major loss of over 200 items stolen from that repository in the immediate aftermath of World War II to the Soviet Union. When Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945. #OGC

Historic Ardmore artifacts stolen during building renovation The new owners of a historic building at 28 Washington Street in Ardmore are offering a $500 reward after several items were stolen Monday night during an ongoing renovation.

Historic Ardmore artifacts stolen during building renovation. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking

www.kxii.com/2026/03/13/h...

Great feedback from #OGC Testbed-21 GIMI audience to our dual dash cam demo showing how binary metadata can be accurately synchronised with front and rear videos using #WebVMT in a web browser. Discover more details at github.com/webvmt/commu... @w3c.bsky.social #Nextbase

"Twilight in the Wilderness" by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860. Currently located at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #lootedartifacts #artfraud #artrecovery #paintingoftheday

Earlier this week, we hosted the Special SDO Session on Geospatial Standards. The video and slides are now available! Learn about #CityGML, #GeoPose, #MUDDI, #IndoorGML and #X3D!

Video: youtu.be/2vD9TMIaH6A
Slides: metaverse-standards.org/presentation...
#OGC #Web3D #geospatial #metaverse

Poland Returns 91 Stolen Greek-Jewish Artifacts to Greece - The National Herald ATHENS – The first repatriation of cultural property from Poland to its country of origin has now become a reality. The historic collection of 91 Greek-Jewish religious artifacts was handed over to Gr...

'Poland returns 91 valuable Greek-Jewish religious artifacts stolen from synagogues and from families of Greek Jews during World War II and the Nazi occupation by the organization Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg.' #OGC #artdetective # artcrime

www.thenationalherald.com/poland-retur...

ミラノから日本に帰国して最初のお仕事の成果が公開されました！

地理空間情報標準化の重要性を認識した最初の時代はWMSとKML。それから20年経つと、OGCが果たしてきた成果を積み重ねて次世代のオープンスタンダードな地理空間情報が社会の基盤となってきています。PLATEAUはまさに世界に先駆けてOGCと共にそんな未来を作っています。

オープンデータと国際標準が切り拓く都市の未来。Scott Simmons氏 × 古橋大地氏 対談 ｜ Project PLATEAU
www.mlit.go.jp/plateau/jour...

#PLATEAU #OGC #FuruhashiLab

"In the Dressing Room" by Louis Kronberg, 1910. Pastel on canvas, currently located in the yellow room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday "The Riva degli Schiavoni looking west" by Canaletto, 1736. Owned by Jewish textile manufacturer, Bernhard Altmann. The Anschluss of 1938 annexed Austria to Nazi Germany. Bernhard’s business was “Aryanized” the process by which confiscated Jewish assets. #OGC #artdetective

¿Qué es el efecto Diderot? La espiral invisible que nos hace consumir cada vez más El marketing estudia los mecanismos de la psique humana para así fomentar las ventas.

Efecto Diderot, espiral de consumo y venta cruzada.
#OGC #marketing
www.publico.es/psicologia-y...

RE: https://en.osm.town/@openstreetmap/116165330892920654

@doublebyte , this is of interest for #OGC stuff:

OGC Seeks Public Comment on Justification for the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) Framework as an OGC Community Standard · Issue #3 · opengeospatial/requests https://www.ogc.org/requests/ogc-seeks-public-comment-on-justification-for-the-global-entity-reference-system-gers-framework-and-model-as-an-ogc-community-standard/

The OpenStreetMap Foundation Board has submitted a comment on the OGC's proposal to make the Overture Map Foundation's Global Entity Reference System (GERS) a standard.

github.com/opengeospati...
#OpenStreetMap #gischat #Overture #OGC #GERS

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Special SDO Session - Geospatial Standards to Address the Requirements of Real World Use Cases The Metaverse Standards Forum organized Special SDO Session invites Forum members and Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) to present relevant ongoing or completed work to the MSF and the public...

Join us on March 11 for the next Special SDO Session: Geospatial Standards to Address the Requirement of Real World Use Cases!

Date: March 11, 2026
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 AM PDT
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#metaverse #geospatial #DigitalTwins #Interoperability #OGC

Shipment of Bronze Age era swords, arrowheads seized by Phila. Customs and Border Patrol officers U.S. Customs and Border Control officers made a historic discovery when they seized a shipment containing dozens of Bronze Age swords and arrowheads.

Shipment of Bronze Age era artifacts were seized by Philadelphia Customs and Border Patrol officers. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #lootedartifacts #artfraud #artrecovery

6abc.com/post/shipmen...

"Lost on the Grand Banks" by American artist Winslow Homer, 1885. This painting depicts two fishermen in a small dory battling a turbulent grey, North Atlantic sea. Currently located in a private collection. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #paintingoftheday

#WantedWednesday "Manet painting in Monet's Garden" by Claude Monet, 1874. Originally owned by the German Jewish artist Max Liebermann. The painting was confiscated in 1943 after Max's death. It is suspected that the Nazis sold the work after its confiscation. #OGC #artdetective

Portugal returns stolen Mexican artifacts in first handover | The Jerusalem Post INAH specialists were sent photographs of the finds and conducted a preliminary review of the three, confirming that they indeed “form part of Mexico’s archaeological heritage.”

Portugal returns stolen Mayan, Zapotec artifacts to Mexico. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #lootedartifacts #artfraud

www.jpost.com/internationa...

"Basket of Flowers" by French Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, 1848 -49. Currently located at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime #arttheft #antiquitiestrafficking #paintingoftheday

Da Storm - YouTube

I've had Da Storm by #OGC on repeat all week. I don't know how it's possible, but it sounds even more incredible than when it dropped 30 years ago. Classics don't die, they just age perfectly. 🌀🎤

#WantedWednesday
"A Garland of Flowers Surrounding a Picture of Flora" by Jan Brueghel the Elder. Originally belonging to German art collector and art dealer Dr. Max Stern. In 1937 his art collection was confiscated by the Gestapo. #OGC #artdetective

⭐️ Group B: Old Guys Club ⭐️
It's the returning champions, Old Guys Club led by Captain Aia!
Underestimated in the last event, can they dust off the rust in their title defense?
#OGC

📍 #BrownieVALX : Group B on Feb 22nd at 1pm PST
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📺️ twitch.tv/browntulstar

Alleged ‘Cat Burglar’ Nabbed After Egyptian Artifact Robbery | Ancient Origins Queensland police recovered stolen Egyptian artefacts from the Abbey Museum after a window-smash break-in, arresting a suspect and returning a 2,600-year-old cat figure.

A 52-year-old man arrested after police recovered most of the stolen ancient Egyptian items from the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in Caboolture, north of Brisbane. #OGC #artdetective #artcrime

www.ancient-origins.net/news-history...

@bellular.bsky.social | Bellular News: "Everyone Turned On Windows. Microsoft Is Panicking" | #Gaming #GamingIndustry #GamingNews #News #Copilot #GenAI #Bugs #HarwarePanic #Windows11 #SteamOS #Linux #ClaudeCode #OpenGamingCollective #OGC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ffF...