ShareGeo: Discovering and Sharing Geospatial Data - 12 months on and going open!

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ShareGeo

Discovering and Sharing Geospatial Data

12 months on and going open!

www.sharegeo.ac.uk

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Examples of Geospatial data

Grids Boundaries

DTM

Derived OS data

GPSLand -use

Imagery

ShareGeo – a spatially enabled DSpace

• Implemented Geo-Search functionality using the open source OpenLayers API with access to Google Maps

• Results of searches are shown graphically on a map as bounding boxes

• Searching done on a database table storing the coordinate limits of the bounding box of the dataset

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Progress to date

Current Stats (Jan 2009 - July 2010):• 3487 unique users• 3277 data downloads• 99 datasets deposited (though not many

voluntarily)

How to encourage deposit…

2 key strategies:1. Offer an open version2. Create a plugin to enable direct deposit

to the repository from where users are creating data

Why ShareGeo Open now?

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Graffiti 2010

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Future technical improvements

• Visualize actual data with plug-in application• Provide data in other formats, including web-

services• Add features such as annotations, tagging and

ratings

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Reasons for optimism …

• OS OpenData of course

• INSPIRE legislation

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Thank you

www.sharegeo.ac.uk