GeoNetwork and INSPIRE event November 2013

On 21st and 22nd of November 2013 GeoCat organizes an event in Amersfoort, the Netherlands to discuss future functionality of GeoNetwork in an INSPIRE context. The topics of interest during the meeting are listed below and will be elaborated in the running up to the meeting. We invite you to comment, discuss and contribute to these topics and suggest others if you miss important topics.

More info or registration for the event at info[at]geocat.net

Topics of interest

3.0 stable (latest Bolsena 6/14)

• Admin UI
• OpenSearch / Atom
• Harvesting / caching
• Spring MVC
• MultiNodes Support
• CSW support & INSPIRE (a.o. What’s new in CSW-3 and iso19115-3)
• Editor UI 1.0
• Admin: Remote Notifications
• Workflow (editing): Workspace to keep drafts
• Batch Editing
• Search UI (Angular JS)
• Open Data, Linked Data: DCAT
• Translation of the user interface
• Search Engine Indexing
• Thesaurus Multilingual Hierarchy (Study) (ISO 19135)
• Graphical User Interface developments & WCAG accessibility Guidelines

3.2

• Analytics
• ISO 19139-2014
• Workflow (editing): Basic full workflow
• SOLR & Multilingual Support
• Clustering / scalability
• Open Data, Linked Data: Further developments, whitepapers
• Metadata scanner integration: automatic metadata file generation
• CSW-3
• QGIS Bridge (like GeoCat Bridge)

Ongoing

• Documentation
• Marketing
• Metadata 101

Draft program for the event

Thursday 21 November 2013

9:00 Arrival, registration, coffee

9:30 Welcome message

10:00 Presentations on a selection of National GeoNetwork implementations for INSPIRE

11:30 Presentation and discussion of topics of interest

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Mini Workshops 1 - breakout discussions on specific topics of interest

14:45 Tea break

15:00 - 17:00 Presentation and discussion of improvement proposals

17:00 Consulting hour with GeoNetwork experts (optional)

18:30 Dinner at Dara (http://dara.nl, optional)

21:00 Social event (to be determined, optional)

Friday 22 November 2013

9:00 Mini workshops 2 - breakout discussions on specific topics of interest

10:45 Working on improving specific topics, split up in teams

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Plenary summary of split team sessions

14:45 Tea break

15:00 Plenary discussion on future collaboration opportunities

16:30 Wrap up, results of the event by Jeroen Ticheler

17:00 Drinks