[OSGeo-Discuss] open repository for general research GIS data ?

[Jonathan Moules]

Hi Karsten,
There seem to be a lot to choose from, the question is - how special is 
spatial in this context? - http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories
And - https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/

Background reading - 
https://cos.io/about/news/open-science-framework-now-recommended-repository-nature-publishing-group/


Ideally open data should be somewhere it can be easily found, and even 
more ideally, the metadata harvest-able via an API so third-parties can 
readily find it.
This is important because it doesn't matter if the data is out there if 
no-one can find it. Right now we have literally hundreds (maybe 
thousands) of institutional CKAN/DKAN installs globally, all with their 
own disparate datasets. And then all of the aforementioned open-data 
repositories, many of which have probably rolled their own APIs.

This is a problem I'm trying to solve with GeoSeer 
(https://www.geoseer.net) - it's a search engine for public OGC services 
(WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS) that brings many of those datasets (over 450,000 
so far) into a single place. Over time I plan on adding other types of 
GIS data to it, but that of course is contingent on being able to 
reliably and automatically find it.

Cheers,
Jonathan



On 2018-03-28 14:11, karsten wrote:
> Dear All,
> I just had a colleague ask me about open data repositories for GIS 
> files. Despite knowing the usual suspects such as OSM, GeoWiki, 
> Natural earth data ,
> Global administrative areasand so on I am not aware that there would 
> be a more general option to store general research GIS data e.g. for 
> scientific purposes such as agricultural research results ...
> The original request from my colleague is: /"Regarding open GIS data, 
> where are the most stable/accessible/well known depositories of open 
> access data that researchers can add their data to?  We are thinking 
> of the possibilities for archiving data layers so that they can be 
> used by anyone, but ( ideally) without us having to take 
> responsibility for running the servers etc.  As an example for 
> non-spatial data we use Dataverse."/
> Would anyone be aware of such a repository ?
> Thanks
> Karsten
> Karsten Vennemann
> www.terragis.net <http://www.terragis.net>
>
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