[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?
Cameron Shorter
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Tue Oct 18 14:33:26 PDT 2016
It is worth mentioning and referencing national Open Data Policies. I'm
familiar with the Australian Open Data Policy:
https://www.dpmc.gov.au/resource-centre/data/australian-government-public-data-policy-statement
Other nations have similar policies.
On 18/10/2016 8:00 AM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>
> In my opinion another relevant topic is open data and its quality,
> i.e. methods and tools for assessing open data quality.
>
> Some data has metadata quality, some data has not.
>
> Before using them we have to be sure that the characteristics of the
> data fit our exigences. For instance open data are useless if they are
> not updated or they are bad quality.
>
> Therefore, I would add to your list
>
> *Methods and FOSS tools for assessing open data quality.*
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>
> Best.
>
> Maria
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> *Da:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Andrew
> Turner @ mapufacture <andrew at mapufacture.com>
> *Inviato:* lunedì 17 ottobre 2016 22.46
> *A:* Venkatesh Raghavan
> *Cc:* OSGeo Discussions
> *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?
> I think there is a very strong connection to make between open-source
> and open data.
>
> Open Data is a broad concept that really means "access to data".
> Access is more than just a download, or a license - it also means
> having the tools and methods available for everyone to turn the data
> into something which is relevant to answering specific questions.
>
> It also means that data are available in accessible formats - ones
> that anyone can use without restriction. Though that's not the same as
> 'a standard'.
>
> Regarding the Public Geodata Committee, it's worthwhile to consider
> what unique role OSGeo can provide to improve the global and local
> situation. There are numerous catalogs of varying states of quality
> and maintenance - so it's unlikely a need to have /yet another catalog/.
>
> However a few issues that are open questions and could be interesting
> to work on and beneficial to the broader community:
>
> - *Geospatial support of common data catalog formats*. Notably DCAT
> has become prevalent thanks to the development & adoption of CKAN by
> many national governments. The spatial capabilities are nascent, so
> what would OSGeo recommend as better practices. Maybe also consider
> open-source implementations of DCAT publishing and consuming libraries
> so that more tools (e.g. QGIS) could publish or search and consume
> from DCAT-capable catalogs
> - *Guides and Patterns for data analysis with spatial tools. *What
> open-source libraries exist that enhance general data analysis tools
> such as R, Python, etc. What are the practices for someone new to
> geospatial who are using these tools find and incorporate geodata into
> their work?
> - *Geospatial data formats advocacy. *Stefan Keller is well known to
> pop up in any discussion of the Shapefile to tout the benefits of
> Geopackage. Can we vet that hypothesis and advocate for more
> geospatial tools to produce & consume modern formats like Geopackage?
>
> Having spent the past 10 years focusing my open-source development
> efforts specifically on the publishing, discovery and exploration of
> open data I'm a bit excited about the topic :)
>
> Andrew
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> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan
> <raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp <mailto:raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp>>
> wrote:
>
> Jachym,
>
> I think it is better to confirm before attributing statements to
> someone.
>
> Nobody in his right mind would want Open data out of OSGeo and
> least of all Jeff.
> Yes, we must find a way to reactivate the Public Geodata
> committee. Perhaps
> renaming it as Open Geodata committee would be a start. We also
> have a new
> "Open Geoscience Committee" [1] with great work being done in
> longterm
> archiving of FOSS4G videos, for instance.
>
> What I would suggest is to strengthen tie-ups with OSM, HOT and
> perhaps consider
> building something like Data4All, emulating the success of out
> educational outreach,
> Geo4All.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee
> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee>
>
>
> On 10/17/2016 8:22 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>> I'm just trying to put my memories together - I'm glad, we are all on the
>> same board. I try to push open (geo)data topic as well, in or out of OSGeo
>>
>> J
>>
>> po 17. 10. 2016 v 13:17 odesílatel Jeff McKenna <
>> jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>> napsal:
>>
>>> Hi Jachym,
>>>
>>> I have given talks on OSGeo and open data. I am sorry to hear that you
>>> believe I said that about the foundation. I do believe we've discussed
>>> this in face-to-face board meetings before, so maybe that is where you
>>> heard this? I remember a discussion of adding open data into our
>>> foundation's mission statement, which I believe we did.
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jeff McKenna
>>> President Emeritus, OSGeo
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>>> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>> Hi Sanghee,
>>>> I was told some months ago (and I believe, it was Jeff), that we
>>>> (OSGeo.org) are solely software foundation - therefore we do not care
>>>> about open data
>>>>
>>>> maybe things have changed?
>>>>
>>>> J
>>>>
>>>> po 17. 10. 2016 v 5:08 odesílatel Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com>
>>>> <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com> <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com>> napsal:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> Can anybody share presentation file about the OSGeo and open data,
>>>> if any? I’m invited to give a keynote talk at ‘Open Data in Action
>>>> Conference’[1] in Korea and I don’t want to make the file from the
>>>> scratch.
>>>>
>>>> FYI, OSGeo Korea[2], R Korea[3], Open Data Institute(ODI) Seoul[4],
>>>> Open Knowledge(OK) Korea[5] will co-host the event on 15th Nov near
>>>> Seoul. The main theme of the conference is ‘Experiment on Open Data
>>>> based Society.’ Anybody who has similar interest can join this
>>>> conference.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> 신상희
>>>>
>>>> [1]http://event.r-kor.org/
>>>> [2]http://www.osgeo.kr/
>>>> [3]http://r-kor.org/
>>>> [4]http://seoul.theodi.org/
>>>> [5]http://okfn.kr/
>>>> ---
>>>> Shin, Sanghee
>>>> Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
>>>> http://www.gaia3d.com
>>>>
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