Jeroen Ticheler

eoNetworkpensource

Director Founder and chair

Overview

• What is GeoNetwork?

• How is it developed?

• What is upcoming?

• Two examples of a National SDI implementation

• How can you use it?

• (hopefully :-)

What is

eoNetworkpensource

?

Software topublish data through

metadata

Started in 2000 at with initial support from:

Very comprehensive metadata editing and

management

With a focus on

Spatial data

Build on Standards, Standards, Standards, Standards, Standards, ...

The Basic Building Blocks

• ISO TC211 Standards

• OGC Standards (Open Geospatial Consortium)

Catalogue interoperability

• Support for INSPIRE

• Full OGC Catalog v2.0 support (ISO profile) (Reference implementation for OGC)

• Open Archive Initiative support (OAI-MPH)

• RSS and GeoRSS newsfeeds

• OpenSearch with GEO extension

• Metadata harvesting & synchronization

The glue in aSpatial Data Infrastructure

GeoNetwork opensource Dutch National Geo Registry

FAO GeoNetwork

SwissTopo geocat.ch

National INSPIRE Catalogs in Europebased on

How is it developed?

A Community Driven Project

Downloads

~700 on English user list160+ on French and 140+ on Spanish lists360+ on developer list50+ on committer list10+ active developers

Mailing lists

How do we collaborate?

How do we collaborate?

• Community driven governance

(proposal - discussion - voting - integration)

How do we collaborate?

• Community driven governance

(proposal - discussion - voting - integration)

• Skype, Conference calls and Face-to-face meetings

How do we collaborate?

• Community driven governance

(proposal - discussion - voting - integration)

• Skype, Conference calls and Face-to-face meetings

• Work is split up in small packages

How do we collaborate?

• Community driven governance

(proposal - discussion - voting - integration)

• Skype, Conference calls and Face-to-face meetings

• Work is split up in small packages

• Continuous contact between user and developer

How do we collaborate?

• Community driven governance

(proposal - discussion - voting - integration)

• Skype, Conference calls and Face-to-face meetings

• Work is split up in small packages

• Continuous contact between user and developer

• Commercial Support Contracts, Consulting, Development

What are the benefits

What are the benefits

• Support common requirements

What are the benefits

• Support common requirements

• Make testing and compliance easier

What are the benefits

• Support common requirements

• Make testing and compliance easier

• Share cost

What are the benefits

• Support common requirements

• Make testing and compliance easier

• Share cost

• Prevent vendor lock-in

What are the benefits

• Support common requirements

• Make testing and compliance easier

• Share cost

• Prevent vendor lock-in

• Fast innovation - we all participate

Sustainability through wide community support

http://www.osgeo.org/geonetwork

What is upcoming?

What are we up to?

What are we up to?

• A new version upcoming (end of the year)

What are we up to?

• A new version upcoming (end of the year)

• Lots of new functionality

What are we up to?

• A new version upcoming (end of the year)

• Lots of new functionality

• A redesigned Widgets based User Interface

What are we up to?

• A new version upcoming (end of the year)

• Lots of new functionality

• A redesigned Widgets based User Interface

• Metadata profile plugin support

Changing Architecture

Server and Client

End user GUI

Server

Editor GUI

Admin GUI

Until v2.6 From v2.8

Metadata Schema Plugin

Two examples of a National SDI implementation

Nationaal georegister.nl(Geonovum - The Netherlands)

What do they do?

• A central catalog at National level (Kadaster)

• Catalogs at other admin levels or specialized agencies (different technologies)

• User groups that directly edit content within nationaalgeoregister.nl

• Search in central catalog - display in local sites

Harvesting from other catalogs

Searching all content at National level

Integrated in other portals like data.overheid.nl

geocat.ch(SwissTopo - Swiss)

What do they do?

• A central catalog at National level (SwissTopo)

• Catalogs at Kanton level (different technologies)

• User groups that directly edit content within geocat.ch

• Search in central catalog - display in local sites

Harvesting from Kanton catalogs

Searching all content at National level

Integrate information in local websites using

the“Formatters extension”

How can you use it?

How can you use it?

• Software can be found at http://geonetwork-opensource.org

• Install and configure it on your server

• Customize the user interface

• Load the correct metadata profile plugin(s) you need (Warning: this is new, so your profile may not be developed yet)

Support by

• We are a core part of the developer community

• We try to merge most of what we develop for clients back into the GeoNetwork software.

• GeoCat offers consulting (system implementation, customization, software development, advice), training, workshops and support contracts

Improved metadata editor

Nationaal Georegistry v2Geonovum - The Netherlands

Draft