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

[Jonathan Gray]

I think the Open Knowledge Foundation would also be interested in
contributing to this kind of initiative! Work is underway on
implementing support for geospatial metadata in CKAN, the open source
data registry used in data.gov.uk -- and we are currently working on
i18n for over 10 countries around the world:

  http://wiki.okfn.org/ckan/inspire/
  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_in_CKAN
  http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/ckan-discuss/2010-May/000260.html

It would be amazing to work more closely with OSGeo on this front!

All the best,

Jonathan

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Arnulf Christl
<arnulf.christl at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Have fun!
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