Thank you to all who replied. It has saved me a lot of extra "footwork".
I will investigate the sites suggested; though I must say my intuition and personal experience is in tune with Mike. Cheers AlanK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael gould Sent: Thursday, 19 July 2007 10:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Geowanking] metadata catalogues Yes, some catalogues are indeed "in production", for example that of the Cataluña SDI. http://www.geoportal-idec.net/geoportal/IDECServlet?idioma=eng Or the U.S. GeoSpatial One-Stop. However it would be fair, I think, to say that participation in such enterprises has been, well, slow in coming. Similar projects have been around for at least a decade, however I'm not sure that today people are discovering much more geoinfo using these methods, or if Google and similar IR techniques are already overtaking these digital library-based techniques. Mike ------- Michael Gould Centro de Visualización Interactiva www.cevi.uji.es Dept. Information Systems (LSI), Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón, Spain email: gould (at) lsi.uji.es // email2: mgould (at) opengeospatial.org research group www.geoinfo.uji.es // personal www.mgould.com AGILE www.agile-online.org Vespucci Summer Institute www.vespucci.org Erasmus Mundus: Master in Geospatial Technologies www.mastergeotech.info _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
