The Open Geoportal Patrick Florance Stephen McDonald Christopher Barnett Tufts University Dave Siegel Harvard University
What is it? A collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data.
What is it? A Collaborative Effort Application development Collection development Community of best practice - STANDARDS Metadata authoring & sharing Data sharing Data licensing Data sources
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Partners Tufts Harvard MIT MassGIS Princeton Stanford UC Berkeley Columbia Yale United Nations Others Data Global to local Non-restricted Restricted
Underlying Technology Linux Apache/Tomcat Java JSP Solr/Lucene OpenLayers JavaScript JQuery with DataTables GeoServer GeoWebCache OAICat (OAI-PMH protocol) Geonetwork – not embedded in technology stack
Highlights Open source Skinnable – reusable Significant Cost Savings Application Development Data loading DB management Metadata sharing/authoring Data sharing
Schedule May, 2011: Beta production release July, 2011: 1.0 release Enhancements Thesaurus Improved spatial search algorithms Crowd sourcing, social networking, interoperability Over 20,000 data layers available in next 2 months
The Open Portal Patrick Florance Stephen McDonald Christopher Barnett Tufts University Dave Siegel Harvard University