[Aust-NZ] Fwd: [Geodata] Starting work on a metadata.osgeo.org service

[Hamish]

fyi about a thread going on in the osgeo geodata mailing list,
as I know a number of people here are interested in similar
things and might like to share some input and insight.   --HB


--- On Fri, 6/11/10, Arnulf Christl wrote: ---
> To: geodata at lists.osgeo org
> Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 5:32 AM
>
> 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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