Transcript Geospatially Enabling DSpace Repositories

ShareGeo
Discovering and Sharing
Geospatial Data
12 months on and going open!
www.sharegeo.ac.uk
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Examples of Geospatial data
Land use
GPS
DTM
Grids
Boundaries
Derived OS data
Imagery
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ShareGeo – a spatially enabled
DSpace
• Implemented Geo-Search functionality
using the open source OpenLayers API
with access to Google Maps
• Results of searches are shown graphically
on a map as bounding boxes
• Searching done on a database table
storing the coordinate limits of the
bounding box of the dataset
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Progress to date
Current Stats (Jan 2009 - July 2010):
• 3487 unique users
• 3277 data downloads
• 99 datasets deposited (though not many
voluntarily)
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How to encourage deposit…
2 key strategies:
1. Offer an open version
2. Create a plugin to enable direct deposit
to the repository from where users are
creating data
Why ShareGeo Open now?
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Graffiti 2010
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Future technical improvements
• Visualize actual data with plug-in application
• Provide data in other formats, including webservices
• Add features such as annotations, tagging and
ratings
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Reasons for optimism …
• OS OpenData of course
• INSPIRE legislation
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Thank you
www.sharegeo.ac.uk
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