Difference between revisions of "SDI Committee"

Revision as of 13:07, 15 May 2013

NOTE: This wiki page was created based on discussion on the mailing list. The OSGeo SDI Committee was not established yet. This wiki page is to be used for the committee's establishing.

About

A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. Wikipedia:SDI

OSGeo considers usability of OSGeo software for implementation of various SDIs is important feature for future businesses.

Software components of SDIs

Basic software components of SDI are:

catalogue service
spatial data service
processing services
spatial data repository

Client software (desktop and web) to communicate to those services via standards, which interacts directly with the user. It enables to download, display, query, analyse and update spatial data.

OSGeo projects do cover all this software components. Some of them are covered with more OSGeo projects.

Standards

Most of SDIs are related to OGC standards (OGC OWS) as well as ISO. They are all well implemented in OSGeo projects.

Current SDIs

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems. 2005-2015
GMES Global Monitoring for Environment and Security. Should be fully operational during 2014
INSPIRE Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community.
UNSDI United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
add more here

Goals

Coordinate efforts of development teams
Help to make OSGeo software stack the best choice for SDIs implementation
Promote OSGeo software stack, as the best choice for SDIs implementation
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Methods

Checklists
Tests
Reference implementations
Relevant case studies

Communication

Mailing list
IRC meetings

Members

Jáchym Čepický
Add your name, if you would like to be active member of the committee

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