Geodata Committee Meeting 20060322

= Public Geospatial Data Committee Meeting 2006-Mar-22 =
== Meeting Info ==
 Chair: Jo Walsh
 Minutes: Schuyler Erle
 IRC: #osgeo channel on irc.freenode.org
 Date: 2006-Mar-22 (at least in the Americas and Europe)
 Time: Wednesday March 22, 15:00 UTC
== Agenda Items ==
* Introductions
** Who are in the Committee?
* Discuss focus of group - accessing data versus enabling tools for creating data or something in between? 
* How to take stock of what is available? Are we aiming to have a repository of data or pointers to external data?
** Outreach - if people are working on repository efforts already, how can we connect with them?
* Geodata licensing is a pressing issue. The Public Geodata license has invoked calls for an LPGL model without a ShareAlike constraint. Can we start a working group on this?
* Schedule next committee meeting
== Minutes ==
* Attendance: Jo Walsh, Frank Warmerdam, David Bitner, Jeff McKenna, Alan Doyle, Schuyler Erle, Markus Neteler, Perry Nacionales, Florian Kindl, Daniel Brookshier
=== Group Focus ===
* Accessing data? enabling tools for creating data? or something in between? -- consensus is we want both a portal for accessing existing geodata *and* tools for creating new data.
* Portal for accessing existing data
** Sources of data
*** Packaged data sets (e.g. TIGER/Line, VMap0, ...)
*** Web services (OGC-compliant services, OPeNDAP)
** Allan: "there have been lots of attempts... at first, all you need is pointers to the data & services... but to gain critical mass, you have to fill the catalog with good stuff..."
** Jo proposes an Action Item to compile a list of existing portals
*** http://www.refractions.net/white_papers/ogcsurvey/
*** http://gcmd.nasa.gov/index.html
*** http://www.geotorrent.org/
*** http://metrogis.org/
*** http://nationalatlas.gov/
*** Canadian CGDI
*** ...
* Tools for creating and editing data
** Agreed to be within the group's focus
** Deferring making plans to act on this for now
=== Taking Stock of Existing Data ===
* Catalog existing data? and/or host a repository? no consensus yet.
* Process data into more usable formats?
** TIGER/Line, VMap0, GSHHS
** Packaging data also means fixing metadata
* Provide a forum/marketplace for data wanted / data offered?
* Daniel Brookshier notes that OSGeo.org can host some data
* Proposed we break this into two work groups
** Catalog / Discovery Portal (+ Outreach)
** Packaging / Quality Control / Metadata Augmentation / Documentation (focus on education, e.g. GRASS Spearfish)
* Outreach
** Geodata Committee's efforts should coordinate closely with Education Committee
** External outreach can proceed informally for now (as the committee gets bootstrapped)
=== Geodata Licensing ===
* Lots of discussion around OpenStreetMap and the ShareAlike provision of its Creative Commons license, and around creating an LGPL-like license specifically for geodata
** The core issue is what constitutes a "derived work" from geodata
** OSGeo can help add clarity to the discussion
* Public Geodata License... can we envision/propose an LPGL?
* http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/geo-discuss/2006-March/000132.html contains an overview of existing discussion
* Proposed we start a working group to research and enumerate geodata licensing possibilities
* Goal state is to list a set of licenses that OSGeo software packages can offer as configuration defaults for people publishing their own data
=== New Working Groups ===
# Data Discovery / Access - Geodata Discovery Working Group
# Packaging / Reuse / QA / Maintenance Geodata Packaging Working Group
# Data Licensing Geodata Licensing Working Group
Log of this meeting is at http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2006-03-22.log.
== Next Meeting ==
Next meeting in exactly one week, Wed 29th March 2006, 1500 UTC on irc.freenode.net #osgeo.
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