Professional Documents
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Sebastian Benthall
UC Berkeley School of Information
ICTD Seminar
(Based on a presentation written with
Rolando Peate
OpenGeo)
What is...
Imagine...
Imagine...
Publishing data
Publishing data
Publishing data
Federated search
Federated search
Federated search
What is GeoNode?
What is GeoNode?
GeoNode Vision
GeoNode Involvement
GeoNode Community
GeoNode Vision
GeoNode Involvement
GeoNode Community
How did this happen?
Risk
(busted stuff)
=
Hazard
(boom)
x
Exposure
(stuff)
x
Vulnerability
(bust per boom)
GeoNode History
The World Bank had a problem:
Disaster risk modeling requires lots of data
Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment (CAPRA) initiative
needed participating agencies across various governments to share
data
Top-down approaches didn't work
Needed to work bottom-up
GeoNode History
GeoNode Vision
GeoNode Involvement
Metadata Pain
Metadata Published
Metadata is published
with open standard
CSW
using GeoNetwork
Features like
User reputation
Organizational endorsement
Flexible security
address data quality concerns
GeoNode Involvement
GeoNode Involvement
That's what
open source communities
are for.
Disaster Reduction
Academic
Spatial Marketplaces
Community
Community
As a result,
many organizations are involved
in building and extending GeoNode
Community
Community
OpenGeo
We
collected
individual organization's roadmaps
We
standardized
individual organization's roadmaps
We
identified
a common roadmap
Then we collectively
prioritized
those roadmap items.
Outcomes
Outcomes
Outcomes
Community solidarity
From mans sweat and Gods love,
beer came into the world
St. Arnold
Remaining challenges
for OpenGeo
Remaining challenges
Remaining challenges
Is the dream of a
secure federated data network
(both spatial and social)
realistic?
This ties into questions of federated social networking.
Thank you.
Any questions?