Geodata Committee Meeting 20060329

= Public Geospatial Data Committee Meeting 2006-Mar-29 =

Meeting Info
Chair: Jo Walsh Minutes: Schuyler Erle IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org Date: 2006-Mar-29 (at least in the Americas and Europe) Time: Wednesday March 29, 15:00 UTC

Old Business

 * Review minutes from last meeting
 * Actions from previous meeting
 * Advertise the need for working group members (volunteers?) to the main discuss list [Done]
 * Proposed workgroups:
 * Data Discovery / Access - Geodata Discovery Working Group
 * Packaging / Reuse / QA / Maintenance - Geodata Packaging Working Group
 * Data Licensing - Geodata Licensing Working Group
 * Each working group will propose action items (in near future)
 * Itemize old business items here please

New Items

 * Open Geodata Project portal
 * Create a welcome page
 * Starting to put together our requests for data services on the OSGeo repository at telascience
 * what data can be hosted (mirrors of OnEarth/Landsat and Blue Marble are already there
 * what index/search facilities can be offered.
 * what metadata schemes can be most useful
 * Discussion of progress on the INSPIRE Directive on sharing environmental information within Europe and how EU-based people can help raise awareness at a national level before the final vote in the European Parliament
 * Please Add Agenda Items

Attendance
Perry Nacionales, David Bitner, Norman Vine, Frank Warmerdam, Steve Coast, Jeff McKenna, Jo Walsh, Schuyler Erle, Florian Kindl, Daniel Putler, Mikel Maron, Daniel Brookshier

Old Business
Noted that three working groups came out of the previous meeting: geodata discovery, packaging, licensing. Participants are encouraged to sign up for the working groups. Agreed that working groups should set meeting times via the geodata@geodata.osgeo.org mailing list.

Project Portal
Project portal lives at http://geodata.osgeo.org/, currently just a first draft. The committee votes to add a screenshot or two.

Some discussion of whether to keep the portal page or move everything to the wiki. Agreed that we need a single clean URL to hand people. Also agreed that standards for public presentation of committees are somewhat unclear.

Resolved that we should pile content into the project wiki page, which will then be ported into the portal's SVN next week. Jo volunteers to share SVN access with any committee member who wants to help maintain the portal site.

Geodata Hosting
John Graham and Norman Vine have volunteered to provide hosting for geodata download and (possibly?) services at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. John is already hosting LandSat and Blue Marble there.

Recommended we put together a "one-stop" catalog for public geodata access.

Discussion of whether to provide download or OGC-compliant web services. Agreed we want to provide both.

List of data sets added to Geodata Discovery Working Group page.

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