<div>Hello Jo,</div>
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<div>I apologie myself having sort of interrupted the last thread about 'WFS-basic and geometadata exchange' which began so interesting. WFS basic and GeoRSS output is still a hot topic to me. </div>
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<div>I tried again to sort out what protocols and/or information models we are really talking about in the context of geometadata and data repositories! See <a href="http://www.gis.hsr.ch/wiki/">http://www.gis.hsr.ch/wiki/OSGeodata_Discovery
</a> > Protocols and information models for some thoughts about this.</div>
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<div>You will see that I came up with four protocols - including WFS basic - and two minimal models which contain DClite4G and Peter's extensive but still sort of minimal model.</div>
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<div>Hope this could be an input for the meeting today (which I have to abstain).</div>
<div>-- Stefan<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/10/31, Jo Walsh <<a href="mailto:jo@frot.org">jo@frot.org</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">dear all,<br><br>Let's meet and greet, this week on Thursday in the regular place -<br>#osgeo on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">
irc.freenode.net</a> - at the regular time - 1600 GMT/1100EST.<br><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Committee_Ninth_Meeting">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Committee_Ninth_Meeting</a><br>contains the agenda that came out of my head last week. As I am here I
<br>would like to talk about some of the projects and plans that are in<br>the geodata committee's worldview. I would also like to apologise<br>again for my circumstantial absense over the last couple of months and<br>I want to start putting more code time energy into this again.
<br><br>It is part of the core 'mission' of the geodata committee that we<br>build a public geodata repository, there has been a lot of effort put<br>into components of this. There has been a lot of back and forth<br>uncertainty about "no data before metadata" / "no metadata before data"
<br>which leaves us with a lot of resources half-set-up, some data to keep<br>track of and a bit of figuring out what is where.<br><br>I hope we can take this opportunity to work out a kind of blueprint,<br>best practise for establishing a data archive with open source, open
<br>standards and a constant eye towards re-use by communities of client<br>applications.<br><br>I hope I'll have the chance to write more / dig out more thoughts<br>before Thursday, otherwise it would be good to talk over the future
<br>of the geodata repository project with whoever can make it,<br><br>cheers,<br><br><br>jo<br><br></blockquote></div><br>