[Geodata] Rebooting this committee

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:17 PM, David William Bitner <bitner at gyttja.org> wrote:
>...
> Early on in this committee
> we made a number of false starts to try to build metadata and data
> repositories on the Telascience resources and each attempt quickly went
> nowhere. The difficult thing with geodata is that it gets stale very fast
> and it takes a *lot* of work to build and maintain.

Agreed, however I do believe that it would be *crucial* to have
a central (geonetwork?) repository in order to replace lists like

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Global_datasets

Running a web harvester would be even better to enrich such a
metadata repo.

Best
Markus

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