Hi Karsten,
There seem to be a lot to choose from, the question is - how special is
spatial in this context? - http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Data_repositories
And - https://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/publicdata/
Background reading -
https://cos.io/about/news/open-science-framework-now-recommended-repository-nature-publishing-group/
Ideally open data should be somewhere it can be easily found, and even
more ideally, the metadata harvest-able via an API so third-parties can
readily find it.
This is important because it doesn't matter if the data is out there if
no-one can find it. Right now we have literally hundreds (maybe
thousands) of institutional CKAN/DKAN installs globally, all with their
own disparate datasets. And then all of the aforementioned open-data
repositories, many of which have probably rolled their own APIs.
This is a problem I'm trying to solve with GeoSeer
(https://www.geoseer.net) - it's a search engine for public OGC services
(WMS, WFS, WCS, WMTS) that brings many of those datasets (over 450,000
so far) into a single place. Over time I plan on adding other types of
GIS data to it, but that of course is contingent on being able to
reliably and automatically find it.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On 2018-03-28 14:11, karsten wrote:
Dear All,
I just had a colleague ask me about open data repositories for GIS
files. Despite knowing the usual suspects such as OSM, GeoWiki,
Natural earth data ,
Global administrative areasand so on I am not aware that there would
be a more general option to store general research GIS data e.g. for
scientific purposes such as agricultural research results ...
The original request from my colleague is: /"Regarding open GIS data,
where are the most stable/accessible/well known depositories of open
access data that researchers can add their data to? We are thinking
of the possibilities for archiving data layers so that they can be
used by anyone, but ( ideally) without us having to take
responsibility for running the servers etc. As an example for
non-spatial data we use Dataverse."/
Would anyone be aware of such a repository ?
Thanks
Karsten
Karsten Vennemann
www.terragis.net <http://www.terragis.net>
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