Invitation to join the GeoDCAT-AP WG

Dear all,

I would like to inform you about an activity under-way to develop a
geospatial extension to DCAT-AP, a metadata interchange format being
used across European data portals.

Briefly, the objective is to agree on a DCAT-AP compliant
representation of geospatial metadata. To achieve this, GeoDCAT-AP
will consolidate and extent preliminary work concerning the alignment
of INSPIRE metadata with DCAT-AP (referred to as INSPIRE+DCAT-AP):

http://europa.eu/!wT77pV

The GeoDCAT-AP WG is going to start their activity shortly, and I
would like to extend the invitation to join to any of you who are
interested.

Actually some of the issues to be addressed have already been
discussed by the LOCADD CG (e.g., representation of CRSs, spatial /
temporal resolution, recommend geometry encodings), and your
contribution would be precious.

More details on the planned work and the timing are available at

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/139283/

The first telecon is planned within the end of this month - a doodle
poll has been set up to decide the date:

http://doodle.com/acpbgpxtv7yi5d2a

My apologies for the short notice, but there has been some delay in
the preparatory phase, and we have a tight schedule. The plan is to
deliver the final GeoDCAT-AP spec within June 2015. We are going to
have a total of 4 telecons, corresponding to each of the phases of the
project (which include a public review period). Most part of the work
will be done through the Joinup issue tracker and on the GeoDCAT-AP
mailing list.

Please don't hesitate to contact me for any questions and comments.

Thanks!

Andrea

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Andrea Perego, Ph.D.
Scientific / Technical Project Officer
European Commission DG JRC
Institute for Environment & Sustainability
Unit H06 - Digital Earth & Reference Data
Via E. Fermi, 2749 - TP 262
21027 Ispra VA, Italy

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/

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Received on Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:59:13 UTC