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

Agenda Items

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

Minutes

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

Minutes of the previous meeting

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 group meeting times should be set via the geodata@geodata.osgeo.org mailing list.

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