[OSGeodata] Catchup IRC chat this Thursday, 1600GMT

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Dear Jo,

On Dec 12, 2006, at 7:18 PM, J. Random Walsh wrote:

> dear all,
>
> It's time for another geodata IRC meeting, isn't it? This Thursday,
> 15th, 1600GMT seems like as good as time as any, otherwise there won't
> be another catchup until the New Year, yet there are all those
> Christmas holiday spare cycles coming up... ;)

Will not make it tomorrow afternoon (nor Friday) :(

>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Committee_Tenth_Meeting  -
> please feel very welcome to edit - what's on my mind right now is
> this, and all deserves to be documented on the wiki too:
>
>    *  Update on GeoNetwork installation at telascience, what are  
> next steps
>          * does everyone who wants access know where to look
>    * Update on geometadata generation utilities
>    * How to express "accuracy" and "quality" of geodata in a
> repository? Prior art required
>    * Next steps for formalising dclite4g schema ... and getting off
> the ground with catalog syndication / usage-based catalog feedback...
>     ...
>
>
> I had a really interesting time this last couple of days in Bucharest;
> I'll upload the slides from the talk I gave when I get back. It was
> remarkable and great to be giving the equivalent of a "vendor
> presentation" about open source geospatial alongside representatives
> of ESRI, Intergraph, Oracle, and of course Autodesk. I enjoyed the
> crowd reaction to the material, about half were grinning with approval
> and the other half shaking their heads and looking slightly nervous.
>
> Thanks awfully FrankW and Stefan for feedback on the notes. I was
> careful not to "guarantee" anything. ;P I did, however innocently
> claim that the GeoNetwork current release supports CSW, but IONIC's
> bizdev chap said to me afterwards that it's not there yet. Clearly I
> don't know my GeoRSS from my ebRIM (can i patent this joke?) I look
> forward to the 2.1 release to save my, er, okay I ran out of puns, it
> has been a long couple of days.

CSW 1 is there (this is Z39.50 in the GeoNetwork implementation), CSW  
2 only in the alpha 2.1 for the Reference Implementation (finalizing  
this week!). So your claim was not completely off :-)

Thanks for presenting!
Ciao,
Jeroen

>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo