Dear all,
I'm happy to announce that eHarta collaborative project[1], initiated by
geo-spatial.org and Romanian OSGeo Chapter, won the “Better Data Award”
at “Open Data Challenge”[2]. The prize was awarded at the Digital Agenda
Assembly[3], being held in Brussels on 16th and 17th June 2011, by the
European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes.
Organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation[4] and the Open Forum
Academy[5] under the auspices of the Share-PSI initiative[6], the Open
Data Challenge invited designers, developers, journalists, researchers
and the general public to come up with useful, valuable or interesting
uses for open public data. It attracted 430 entries from across the EU.
Entries were invited in four categories for prize money totalling €20
000. The categories were fully blown apps, ideas, visualisations and
liberated public sector datasets. The winners were selected by open data
experts, including the inventor of the worldwide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
eHarta[7] is a collection of thousands of old georeferenced maps,
published and documented with the help of the community. The eHarta maps
are freely available for download[8] as georeferenced files and
accessible through a number of web services that fit a broad range of
users (e.g. Zoomify tiles or KML files for ordinary users; OGC compliant
geospatial web services like WMS/WMTS/WMS-C/TMS/CSW for users with
advanced geospatial skills). A webmapping application, which integrates
all the old maps published within eHarta project, was implemented on
geo-spatial.org[9]. Of course, everything was done with free and open
source software.
Fore some more technical details I'll try to setup a page on OSGeo Wiki.
A entry for this project was also added in the Galleries. By the way,
there is a lot of spam here. Someone should clear all the junk entries.
Best regards,
Vasile
[1] http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/eHarta?lang=en
[2] http://opendatachallenge.org/
[3] http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital-agenda/daa/index_en.htm
[4] http://okfn.org/
[5] http://www.openforumacademy.org/
[6] http://share-psi.eu/
[7] http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/eHarta?lang=en
[8] http://earth.unibuc.ro/harti/download-planuri-tragere.php?lang=en
[9] http://www.earth.unibuc.ro/harti/index.php?lang=en
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