[OSGeo-Discuss] are3na catalog requires software publisher statement

[Paul van Genuchten]

Hi list, i'm sending you this mail related to a question i was 
discussing, which might be relevant to other osgeo.org communities.

A while ago I registered GeoNetwork as a software item in the are3na 
software catalog (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/interoperability/search). 
Recently they updated the software and asked me to review my submission. 
These days they have a "publisher"-field as a required field. I wondered 
who is actually the publisher of GeoNetwork opensource. Is it the 
organisation that prepared a certain release (we rotate this task over 
important contributing organisations in the community), could it be 
OSGEO.org or should we assign as a community this role to a certain body 
(like mentioned in each code fragment header)?

I checked how other OSGEO projects managed this in that catalog. deegree 
seems to be added by IDGis, QGIS by faunalia. I liked however the way 
Grass has managed this, they registered an organisation "GRASS 
Development Team" and assigned that as publisher (and claimed it to be a 
"Academia/Scientific organisation").

I'm interested to hear your thoughts about this matter. And also would 
urge all communities to register their projects (openlayers, geoserver, 
mapserver, geomajas), since the catalog is quite a reference in Europe.

Regards, Paul van Genuchten