[GRASS-dev] Proposal for GSoC idea on INSPIRE

[Moritz Lennert]

On 28/01/14 16:00, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to bring a proposal for the forthcoming GSoC, that is the
> support for INSPIRE. This proposal is twofold, one regarding the
> metadata support, the other regarding the support for the data
> transformation to meet the inspire schema. I would like to know your
> opinion before drafting the idea into the trac. I'm willing to mentor
> for the INSPIRE POV, and since I'm working at JRC I have the opportunity
> to take advantage of a direct contact with the very people who are
> developing the Directive. Martin Landa kindly made himself available to
> co-mentor from the GRASS POV.

+1, but I think we should aim for generic metadata handling and then 
allow the use of specific schemas such as INSPIRE.

QGIS metatools is a nice example of such a generic tool allowing for 
specification of different schemas and for different outputs through the 
use of XSLT conversion.

Moritz