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    <p>It is worth mentioning and referencing national Open Data
      Policies. I'm familiar with the Australian Open Data Policy:</p>
    <p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dpmc.gov.au/resource-centre/data/australian-government-public-data-policy-statement">https://www.dpmc.gov.au/resource-centre/data/australian-government-public-data-policy-statement</a></p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/10/2016 8:00 AM, Maria Antonia
      Brovelli wrote:<br>
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        <p>In my opinion another relevant topic is open data and its
          quality, i.e. methods and tools for assessing open data
          quality.</p>
        <p>Some data has metadata quality, some data has not.</p>
        <p>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.</p>
        <p>Therefore, I would add to your list</p>
        <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <b>Methods and FOSS tools for
              assessing open data quality.</b></span></p>
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        <p>Best.</p>
        <p>Maria</p>
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              Antonia Brovelli<br>
              <div><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3">Vice
                  Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br>
                  Politecnico di Milano</font></div>
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                      </span><span>OSGeo; </span><span>ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS
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                        NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge;
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              face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Da:</b>
              Discuss <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org"><discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org></a> per conto
              di Andrew Turner @ mapufacture
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              <b>Inviato:</b> lunedì 17 ottobre 2016 22.46<br>
              <b>A:</b> Venkatesh Raghavan<br>
              <b>Cc:</b> OSGeo Discussions<br>
              <b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?</font>
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            <div dir="ltr">I think there is a very strong connection to
              make between open-source and open data. 
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              <div>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. </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>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'. </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>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
                <i>yet another catalog</i>. </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>However a few issues that are open questions and
                could be interesting to work on and beneficial to the
                broader community:</div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>- <b>Geospatial support of common data catalog
                  formats</b>. 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</div>
              <div>- <b>Guides and Patterns for data analysis with
                  spatial tools. </b>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?</div>
              <div>- <b>Geospatial data formats advocacy. </b>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?</div>
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              </div>
              <div>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 :)</div>
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              <div>Andrew</div>
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              <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:29 AM,
                Venkatesh Raghavan <span dir="ltr">
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                    <div class="m_5703135010298084429moz-cite-prefix">Jachym,<br>
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                      I think it is better to confirm before attributing
                      statements to<br>
                      someone. <br>
                      <br>
                      Nobody in his right mind would want Open data out
                      of OSGeo and least of all Jeff.
                      <br>
                      Yes, we must find a way to reactivate the Public
                      Geodata committee. Perhaps <br>
                      renaming it as Open Geodata committee would be a
                      start. We also have a new <br>
                      "Open Geoscience Committee" [1]  with great work
                      being done in longterm<br>
                      archiving of FOSS4G videos, for instance.<br>
                      <br>
                      What I would suggest is to strengthen tie-ups with
                      OSM,  HOT and perhaps consider
                      <br>
                      building something like Data4All, emulating the
                      success of out educational outreach,
                      <br>
                      Geo4All. <br>
                      <br>
                      Best<br>
                      <br>
                      Venka<br>
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                      [1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                          On 10/17/2016 8:22 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:<br>
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                          <pre>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 <
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" target="_blank">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> napsal:

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                            <pre>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.

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On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
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<pre>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 <<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:shshin@gaia3d.com" target="_blank">shshin@gaia3d.com</a>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:shshin@gaia3d.com" target="_blank"><mailto:shshin@gaia3d.com></a>> 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]<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://event.r-kor.org/" target="_blank">http://event.r-kor.org/</a>
    [2]<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.kr/" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.kr/</a>
    [3]<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://r-kor.org/" target="_blank">http://r-kor.org/</a>
    [4]<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://seoul.theodi.org/" target="_blank">http://seoul.theodi.org/</a>
    [5]<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="m_5703135010298084429moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://okfn.kr/" target="_blank">http://okfn.kr/</a>
    ---
    Shin, Sanghee
    Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
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