Re: Geonovum testbed

Thanks, Linda - this is fantastic!

Best Regards,
Scott

> On Mar 24, 2016, at 3:03 AM, Linda van den Brink <l.vandenbrink@geonovum.nl> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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 <http://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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