[GRASS-dev] Proposal for GSoC idea on INSPIRE

[Moritz Lennert]

On 28/01/14 17:30, Vaclav Petras wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
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>     On 28/01/14 16:00, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
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>         Hi All,
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>         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.
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>     +1, but I think we should aim for generic metadata handling and then
>     allow the use of specific schemas such as INSPIRE.
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> INSPIRE is using some more general ISO standards, isn't it?

Yes, it is based on ISO 19115, but it is slightly different. My main 
idea is that any metadata tool should be capable of using whatever 
schema the user provides (possibly proposing a few predefined ones) and 
not hardwired to a specific schema.

Moritz