[Geodata] Starting work on a metadata.osgeo.org service

[Arnulf Christl]

Folks,
anybody interested in joining efforts for an OSGeo service on geodata?

We have planned to have some such since OSGeo's inception (and me way 
before that) but never formed a more concrete action around it. It would 
be nice to move the Wiki page with service URLs and the Geodata 
Discovery Group (see Wiki) into a more usable portal type of place. 
There is considerable know-how and software around, GeoNetwork and 
Mapbender have shown interest in helping maintain this sub domain.

With OSGeo's move to the new service infrastructure it seems like we can 
get decent hardware to support a permanantly available service and it 
would be really great to have it in place before the INSPIRE Open Source 
Mash-Up [1] in Krakov. This event might help generate a healthy stream 
of input from the Open Source world to INSPIRE and back and make this 
list [2] a bit longer and way more accessible. There is a ticket in SAC 
[3] right now that describes one perspective on the service.

Best regards,
Arnulf

[1] 
http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/groups/13847/first-inspire-mashup-event-creating-new-apps-for-biodiversity/
[2] http://inspire-forum.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pg/bookmarks/group:13847/items
[3] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/568

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