[OSGeo-UK] (Re)introducing myself

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,

I've just moved back to the UK and thought I should (re)introduce
myself to the UK OSGeo community. After three years on the OSGeo Board
I'll be standing down this summer - between them, my new workplace
and my one-year-old son leave me very little time for outside interests.
But I hope to connect more to OSGeo at the grassroots, as it were.

I've just started work at EDINA, the JISC national data centre
based at Edinburgh University. Here I'm taking a project called
"GeoCrossWalk" and helping to turn it into a dependable service.
It's a combination of gazetteer and geoparser, designed to
plug in to other information services and help mine document
repositories for interesting geographical references.

It is restricted to academic users who have access to Digimap:
( http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/description/ )
In future, I hope this will change, as on the one hand, OS
introduce more flexible "multi-client" licenses that work across the 
public sector; and on the other hand, we have the time to prototype a 
public geodata version of the GeoCrossWalk gazetteer.

In a couple of months time I'll be trying to reach out to people in UK 
academic information services and beyond, and hope I'll eventually
meet many of you on this list. I was sorry to miss the UK OSGIS
conference in Nottingham, was in the middle of the move over from Spain.
Are there writeups, blog summaries etc that can be seen?

cheers,


jo

-- 
Jo Walsh

Service Manager, GeoCrossWalk
EDINA National Datacentre
tel: +44 (0)131 650 2973

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