OSGeodata

Overview

These are experimental pages originated from OSGeodata Mailing List on OSGeo.org.

Let's finally unleash geographic information through open access and dissemination of geographic data and (metadata) search appliances!

Managing metadata well is the key to making a repository of open geographic data really useful and re-usable. Creating metadata can be a dull chore. Part of the problem is over-focus on production, rather than consumption; on standards, rather than on usage. The Geodata Committee at OSGeo has been working on a "simplest useful thing" approach to geographic metadata.... (Citation from Jo Walsh)

Therefore we really need a geographic metadata exchange model as well as a geographic metadata exchange protocol (catalog service).

See OSGeodata Discovery for more information on this. And let's reduce it to the max.

Pleadings...

• Blog 1 - "Leight Weight Web Resource Catalogue"
• Blog 2 - More Simple Web Services Catalogues...", and
• Blog 3.
• Bryan's Blog: "To extend or not to extend ..." ("In practice, we can exchange any derivative of the ISO19139 profiles using OAI and store them in xml databases.").

Weblinks

Information:

• Wiki at osgeo.org for requirements
• Geodata mailing list at osgeo.org for discussions