[Geodata] Rebooting this committee

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

How about such a Geonetwork node harvesting WMS/WFS services for a list of geodata web servers?

We have just funded Sourcepole to develop a QGIS plugin which harvests OGC OWS web service URL's from our web site (to make it easier to access & use data we provide) & I have funding to enhance this tool, including the possible development of a CSW harvester for OWS sources.

Being able to point such a tool at an OSGEO Geonetwork catalog of such services to pick sources/layers provides real data sharing, discovery & access.

Brent Wood


--- On Tue, 7/31/12, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

From: Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
Subject: Re: [Geodata] Rebooting this committee
To: "David William Bitner" <bitner at gyttja.org>
Cc: geodata at lists.osgeo.org, "Seven (aka Arnulf)" <seven at arnulf.us>
Date: Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 2:53 AM

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:17 PM, David William Bitner <bitner at gyttja.org> wrote:
>...
> Early on in this committee
> we made a number of false starts to try to build metadata and data
> repositories on the Telascience resources and each attempt quickly went
> nowhere. The difficult thing with geodata is that it gets stale very fast
> and it takes a *lot* of work to build and maintain.

Agreed, however I do believe that it would be *crucial* to have
a central (geonetwork?) repository in order to replace lists like

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets

Running a web harvester would be even better to enrich such a
metadata repo.

Best
Markus

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