Re: Geonovum testbed

This is great,something to read over the weekend !

Many thanks Linda and Clemens

Ed

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, 09:14 Clemens Portele, <
portele@interactive-instruments.de> wrote:

> Thanks, Linda!
>
> During the Amersfoort meeting I had presented our understanding how the
> WFS proxy implementation relates to the current draft best practices and I
> promised an update once we have completed our work. Our report has an
> updated version of this assessment:
> http://geo4web-testbed.github.io/topic4/#h.s1rclqklnkog
>
> Best regards,
> Clemens
>
>
> Am 24.03.2016 um 10:03 schrieb Linda van den Brink <
> l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The results of the first three research topics of our ‘spatial data on the
> web’ testbed have become available as of last week! Because a lot of it is
> relevant to this group, I’d like to draw your attention to the reports,
> code and presentations coming out of it.
>
> All the results, presentations and code are available on GitHub:
> https://github.com/geo4web-testbed/general
>
> Three topics were researched:
>
> -          Spatial data platform – the results from this one are I think
> less useful to this group. Mainly they used CartoDB as a base, added an
> authorization layer for allowing users to propose data modifications,
> proposed a way to deal with different CRS, etc. All very user friendly.
> -          Crawlable spatial data – very relevant, they looked at how to
> publish spatial data on the web and the best ways to make it indexable by
> search engines and usable for web programmers. Crawlers turned out to be
> pretty slow with indexing… Also they tried to start engaging a community
> around this topic (of web developers), and intend to keep doing this.
> -          Proxy on SDI – also very relevant, Clemens Portele was also
> involved in this. Basically they also looked at crawlability etc, but with
> the starting point of the current SDI –creating a proxy on top of WFS and
> CSW services. They also proposed an extension to schema.org, published
> sample spatial linked data, and more.
>
> I think there is potential for take a lot of examples and content for our
> BP from these results.
>
> Thanks to all the participants from Spotzi, Apiwise, interactive
> instruments, GeoCAT, and Linked Data Factory!
>
> Linda
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