[geo-discuss] Fwd: ... commenti a draft INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules

Fri Mar 16 11:31:00 UTC 2007

Jo+all,
you may find some comments to the draft IRs here:
http://www.freegis-italia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=24&Itemid=65

If you like, you may modify and use them into FOSSDI comments.

pg

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Piergiorgio Cipriano <pg.cipriano at gmail.com>
Date: Mar 16, 2007 12:15 PM
Subject: ... commenti a draft INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules
To: Geographic Free and Open Source Software - Italian mailing list <
gfoss at faunalia.com>, discussione at freegis-italia.org

Ciao,

per chi è interessato alla questione "INSPIRE Metadata":

Nella sezione Documenti >
SDI<http://www.freegis-italia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=54&Itemid=65>di
Freegis-italia.org <http://www.freegis-italia.org> è disponibile una prima
raccolta di osservazioni (versione *1*).

La bozza è a disposizione di tutti; si può:

   - scaricare il
documento<http://www.freegis-italia.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=24&Itemid=65>
   - aggiungere/modificare/integrare/correggere
   - proporre una versione aggiornata del documento e inviarla a *
   discussione*[at]*freegis-italia.org*

Le osservazioni possono essere inviate dai referenti delle varie SDIC/LMO
registrate <http://inspire.jrc.it/ir/index.cfm> entro il *30 marzo 2007*,
attraverso il sito INSPIRE <http://inspire.jrc.it/sdic_call/login.cfm>.

pg

-------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Geodata] A FOSS community response to the INSPIRE
> Implementing    Rules for Metadata Draft
> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 02:16:21 -0800
> From: Jo Walsh < jo at frot.org>
> To: freegis-list at intevation.de, geonetwork-devel at lists.sourceforge.net,
> opensdi at lists.eogeo.org
> CC: geodata at lists.osgeo.org
>
>
> Now that we have an INSPIRE Directive, what are we going to do with it?
> INSPIRE mandates that data providers follow 'Implementing Rules'; the
> first of these, on metadata for geodata, is in public consulation.
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Reading_the_INSPIRE_Metadata_Draft
>
> OSGeo's Geodata Committee is putting together a reading guide and
> formal response to the Metadata Implementing Rules. The rest of this
> email explains the background to the process.
> Everyone who Cares A Lot About Metadata is encouraged to participate
> in the response, which will be written openly on the wiki.
>
> INSPIRE will oblige public authorities collecting and holding geodata
> to comply with a set of Implementing Rules which are still being
> defined. The implementing rules for metadata were published at the
> beginning of last month. The draft for public consulation is
> publically available, but comments and improvements can only be
> submitted through an SDIC or Spatial Data Interest Community.
> Thanks to Markus Neteler, the open source geospatial community has an
> FOSS SDIC available to it.
>
> Recently having had the chance to speak with Metadata Drafting Team
> participants and hear the process outlined by Alessandro Annoni of the
> Joint Research Council, I am more convinced now that this isn't simply
> "illusion of participation", but that the JRC really is in search of
> best practise and sanity checking of what has been produced.
>
> All the other Implementing Rules drafts will be built up from, and
> refer to back, this one. If you are in any way involved in the
> collection or publication of geodata through any publically funded
> institution in Europe then what results from these IRs will affect
> you, and this is our first and last chance to affect the process.
>
> If you want to help out, this is what to do:
>
> - Read the draft! If you don't have time to read the whole draft but
>    want to know what is going to affect you, quick pointers are at
>
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Reading_the_INSPIRE_Metadata_Draft#Reading_the_draft
> - Sign your name up to the wiki page if you want to be included in the
>    loop (this is the last cross-list spam about this you will see from
>    me, and followups/discussion should go on the wiki, not via email)
>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Response_to_INSPIRE_Metadata_Draft
>
> - By the 20th the useful parts of [Reading] will have moved over to a
>    more formal version at [Response] and there will be a week during
>    which one can edit that page.
>
> - Then we will de facto lock it down for final edits
>
> - On the 27th or so i hope to have a telecon and after that move the
>    response into the form required by the feedback process for SDICs.
>
> Even 5 minutes spent structuring, editing or proofreading would be
> of great help; Many eyes make better metadata...
>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo
>
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-- 
Piergiorgio Cipriano
pg.cipriano at gmail.com
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