dear all, here is a broad summary of todo tasks for the OSGeo geodata committee. A lot of foundational work has been done to get to 80/20, and more eyes and hands on all of this would help a lot come out.
1/ Fixing the geodata committee web presence. http://geodata.osgeo.org/ redirects to http://www.osgeo.org/geodata/ This is *very* out of date, needs updating with a lot of context from the wiki, images added, etc. I would like for the geodata site to have its own sub-navigation, etc, as in the design sketches Jody did for WebCom aeons ago, but this can wait. I would be happy to produce and scan paper sketches to help bootstrap. 2/ Making a front-end to the geodata repository site. http://public.geodata.osgeo.org/ points to a telascience server. I'd imagined something between an OpenLayers UI and http://geometa.info/ Nothing to see yet, because this leads into... 3/ Co-ordinating the setup and maintenance of a GeoNetwork instance on the telascience systems. John Graham worked on install and configuration a lot before the New Year. I got 85% there on a metadata collecting daemon that crawls a local filesystem, indexes it, tries to nag responsible people and emits ISO19915/39 metadata that GN can eat. I *do* want to spend my limited screentime minutes finishing this RSN. http://project.knowledgeforge.net/geometa/trac Remember: no data without metadata, no metadata without data! 4/ Generally mentoring / being point of contact for, people who are working on geodata repository efforts or interested in doing so. This should come down to being aware of what systems exist, who's working on what, helping people solve config problems. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Repository 5/ Writing a primer about open data licensing that connects geodata licensing concerns to the bigger picture, based on the collection at http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Licensing 6/ Joining the dots more with the Edu Committee activity. The focus there has been on coursework material, because that's what its active people have in their possession. Original dreams were more oriented towards data packaging for active self tutorial, the work Helena in partic. was doing to replace spearfish. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Edu_Data_Package_North_Carolina Perhaps a trac instance would help to manage this. Tyler, any thoughts about or help with meta-organising would be much appreciated. If you get this via the discuss list and have time/focus to help, please join the geodata committee list (which is reasonably high signal/low traffic) and follow up there. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geodata I hope we'll have a VOIP/Skype meeting next Thursday Feb 1st, 1600GMT cheers, jo _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
