21 July 2016 Geospatial

  • 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific. Dial +1 (641) 715 3660, room 651025#

  • Agenda
    • Announcements:
    • HydraConnect 2016
      • Darren, Eliot, Kieran, maybe Kim, John, James
      • Do we want to have a meeting there?
      • Additional panel for metadata sharing and requirements (Stanford, Princeton, Washington, UCSB, CDL)
      • Informal meeting for discussion of WGs
    • GIS Data Modeling WG:
      • Ramping down WG – capstone work at HydraConnect 2016 in Boston (Eliot)
      • WG feedback to other Hydra groups (architecture, steering?)
        • e.g., Gems should be at ProjectHydra labs
      • Potentially late-August/early-September (8/29-9/9) sprint for WG
      • Sprint planning meeting on Aug 16th (10am Pacific)
      • geoconcerns.github.io shows a walkthrough and tutorial
    • What other WG might we charter?
      • Metadata-related WG (Kim)
      • Idea:
        • (a) gather metadata from institutions in variety of standards and content
        • (b) determine shared ontology for RDF representation
          • informed by GeoBlacklight schema, Dublin Core, GeoConcerns
        • (c) Hydra implementation for ontology
          • contribute back to GeoConcerns
      • TODO: Come up with scope and objectives for this potential WG
    • Putting geospatial assets into Fedora 4
      • Who / when?
      • What software?
      • What can we do to share practices / information?
      • Challenges?
      • Experience with non-geospatial assets in Fedora 4
      • Needs for ongoing conversation, Geo4LibCamp panel, survey
  • Next meeting is September 15th