Working Groups/Geodata

= Working Group on Open Geospatial Data =

Purpose

 * 1) Bring together representatives from existing groups for regular calls, to identify areas of potential collaboration, to undertake projects pertaining to geospatially referenced data
 * 2) Maintain registry of open geodata and geospatially referenced data on CKAN and improve CKAN's support for metadata for geospatial datasets.

Active

 * Working Group Coordinator: Jo Walsh, EDINA + Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
 * Suchith Anand, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham (UK)
 * David K Arctur, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (USA)
 * Joanne Cook, Oxford Archaeology + OS Geo UK (UK)
 * Andrea Giacomelli, pibinko (Italy)
 * Jonathan Gray, Open Knowledge Foundation (UK)
 * Gobe Hobona, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham (UK)
 * Jeremy Huggett, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow
 * Lance McKee, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) (USA)
 * Jeremy Morley, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham (USA)
 * Antony Scott, Cranfield University (UK)
 * William Wilcox, University of East Anglia (UEA) + OS Geo UK (UK)
 * Maurizio Napolitano, Fondazione Bruno Kessler + OKFN (Italy)

Participate
To participate, join the open-geodata mailing list. If you'd like to join the WG, please send us an email.

Registry of open geodata on CKAN
See:


 * http://ckan.net/group/geodata

Improve CKAN's support for geospatial data
See:


 * http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_in_CKAN

To do list
Ticket:


 * http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/ticket/181
 * Bootstrap and maintain geodata group on CKAN
 * Todo: add packages from: http://ckan.net/package/search?q=geo&search=Search+Packages+»
 * Organise virtual meeting in late February to register open geospatial datasets on CKAN
 * Brainstorm about the future of geospatial data discovery

To invite/contact

 * http://darctur.com/dka/dkabiog.html
 * http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/profiles2/philip.james
 * http://homepages.ge.ucl.ac.uk/~mhaklay/
 * http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/
 * http://www.opensourcegis.org.uk/
 * http://www.osgeo.org/geodata
 * http://www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk/
 * http://www.ceg.ncl.ac.uk/index.aspx