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. Some of the proposals for functionality will be listed here shortly. We invite you to comment, discuss and contribute to these proposals.

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

Topics of interest

• Clustering / scalability
• CSW support & INSPIRE (a.o. What’s new in CSW-3 and iso19115-3)
• Multilingual support
• Workflow (editing)
• Harvesting / caching
• Open Data, Linked Data
• OpenSearch / Atom
• Analytics
• Graphical User Interface developments & WCAG accessibility Guidelines
• GeoNetwork Mobile
• Documentation
• Marketing

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 improvement proposals

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Mini Workshops 1 - breakout discussions on specific proposals

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 proposals

10:45 Working on improving specific proposals 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