Talk:Geodata Discovery Working Group

Proposal

This is a proposal for an effort to specify (= profile) a geospatial search protocol. Background: Currently, implementations of geospatial catalogue (search) services, like CSW, are rare. Some say ([1][2]) that they are too complicated while the problem supposedly lies deeper: it's probably the metadata model which is also too sized. On the other hand there seems to be a trend towards search protocols (Web 2.0). So perhaps time is ripe for another effort. Proposal: Sketch requirements and solutions for geospatial search protocol. Here are some requirements: simple and light weight (i.e. REST full like WxS), based on recent international standards (WFS, Z39.50 or UDDI all seem too grave), ... Any comments? SFK 19:58, 13 July 2006 (CEST)

BOF on Geodata Discovery and Metadata Models

Organization: see OSGeo_at_FOSS4G2006#BOFs

Status: applied for schedule and room; awaiting room no.;

This is an open BOF; participants are welcome!

• Chairs......: Stefan F. Keller (organization) and Tom Kralidis
• Participants: curr. about 8
• Duration....: One hour
• Preferred schedules: Thursday, 14 Sept., 12:30 - 13:30, or Tuesday, 12 Sept., 17:30 - 18:30

Agenda

• Overview / Approaches:
  • owscat (Tom Kralidis)
  • OAI approach (Stefan F. Keller)
  • Google scraping (Paul Ramsey)
  • Client programming (Jody Garnett)

• Software:
  • GeoNetwork (Jeroen Ticheler)
  • deegree (someone?)
• Models for Metadata Management and for Exchange
  • CSW 2.1 ebRIM (Raj Singh?) => Metadata Management
  • FGDC extended (Jo Walsh?) => Metadata Management
  • Dublin Core extended (Stefan) => Metadata Exchange
• Discussion of pros and cons of approaches
  • Timelines
  • Way forward