[Geodata] about OSGeo geodata catalog

[Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas]

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David William Bitner escribió:
> Jorge,
> 
> There have been several false starts at getting a catalog going for the
> OSGeo GeoData Committee.  The biggest hindrance has been that there has
> been nobody in the group who truly had a need for this catalog that
> could really push them to get it going and to populate it and maintain it.
> 

Well having it configured and available is the first step for us. Let
see what happens.

- From gvSIG perspective, this catalog will be our first place to offer
for our CSW client, and any new geo-resource we detect could be recorded
here.

At OSGeo-ES we've been waiting for this tool because of course is better
to use well known SDI-focused tools than directly the wiki, no matter
what ed parsons say[1] :D

> I think that just about everyone agrees that it would be interesting and
> "a good thing" to have an OSGeo catalog -- the only council I would like
> to give is to make sure that there are enough volunteers who really have
> a committment to get things to happen.  The last push for setting up
> GeoNetwork was being led by Lorenzo Becchi (who I believe is part of
> OSGeo-ex) and Jeroen.  They both, I believe, have access to the
> Telascience servers and hopefully could be coerced into helping orient
> those willing to put the effort in.  We can work with the OSGeo SAC and
> the folks at Telascience on identifying an area on the servers and
> getting the correct permissions set up.

Well Lorenzo at this time is pretty busy but I'm sure he will promote it
in all events he attends :-)

> 
> I look forward to hearing more of your plans!  Please let us know
> whatever we can do to help you out.
> 

Having your support it's what I firstly asked for.

Well, now I suppose we need help to find the geonetwork instance (it's
funny that I can't find a "finding tool") and define a channel to ask
for account on the geonetwork instance (trac tickets at SAC?).

Cheers
[1] http://twitter.com/edparsons/status/2176645511
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Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
http://es.osgeo.org
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

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