1. GeoData@Tufts The Open Geoportal http://opengeoportal.org/ Patrick Florance Stephen McDonald Christopher Barnett Tufts University http://gis.tufts.edu Dave Siegel Harvard University

2. What is it? A collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data.

3. What is it? A Collaborative Effort Application development Collection development Community of best practice - STANDARDS Metadata authoring & sharing Data sharing Data licensing Data sources

4. Live Demo

5. Partners Tufts Harvard MIT MassGIS Princeton Stanford UC Berkeley Columbia Yale United Nations Others Data Global to local Non-restricted Restricted

6. 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

7. Highlights Open source Skinnable – reusable Significant Cost Savings Application Development Data loading DB management Metadata sharing/authoring Data sharing

8. 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

9. GeoData@Tufts The Open Portal http://opengeoportal.org/ Patrick Florance Stephen McDonald Christopher Barnett Tufts University http://gis.tufts.edu Dave Siegel Harvard University