Geodata Committee Tenth Meeting

Metadata
Chair: Jo Walsh IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org (or via Web based IRC client) Date: 2006-December-14 (at least in the Americas and Europe) Time: 1600 GMT / 1100 East Coast / 1700 Europe (fixed time)

Agenda

 * Update on GeoNetwork installation at telascience, what are next steps
 * http://geodata.telascience.org:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
 * State of play @ Telascience
 * Which servers and other resources are available or in use?
 * State of currently hosted data sets: BMNG, VMap0, ?
 * Plans for future data sets: LandSat, ?
 * does everyone who wants access know where to look
 * Update on geometadata generation utilities
 * http://project.knowledgeforge.net/geometa/trac/
 * How to express "accuracy" and "quality" of geodata in metadata? Prior art required
 *  perhaps keep the geonerdy representations in the metadata, but 
 * build a catalogue of use scenarios and as Geo-Professionals determine 
 * what we feel are the appropriate scale numbers or ground error numbers 
 * are appropriate for those


 * Next steps for formalising dclite4g schema
 * Extracting something specification-like from Geodata Metadata Requirements
 * Implementations
 * We will need to replace the http://geodata.osgeo.org/ website soon - any suggestions for a shiny new one, both form and content would be appreciated