Adena Schutzberg and Joe Francica, The Technology Behind the New Geodata.gov and the Non-Technology Challenges Ahead, Directions Magazine, March 8, 2005. Excerpt: 'On January 31, the Department of Interior announced that ESRI had won the contract to update the Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) portal, also known as geodata.gov....At the core of the new solution is a metadata catalog. Remember that the geodata.gov website does not "hold" any data, but rather acts as keeper of metadata pointing users to data of interest. When you choose to look at or download some data, it's done from the source location, usually managed by the data's steward. That metadata catalog "exposes" itself in different ways for developers and end-users. The catalog service is a tool for developers. It allows them to "tap into" the catalog using a variety of standard methods including the OpenGIS Catalog Service for the Web (CS-W), via a text search, via a portlet (more on those later) and in a few other ways. These different ways to access the catalog programmatically mean that Web developers, even "non-geo" developers, can build specialized portals or websites for federal agencies or local or state governments that tap into the "big catalog" of geospatial metadata....The metadata catalog will support data harvesting as it has in the past via Z3950 (Isite), ArcIMS metadata, Open Archives Initiative (OAI), Web Access Folder and the OpenGIS Catalog Service for the Web (CS-W). Others methods, including manual uploads from data custodians are also supported. We learned that more than half the metadata currently indexed in geodata.gov is automatically harvested, an encouraging sign. GOS administrators are enlisting "ambassadors" to help bring new data custodians into the fold.' (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)
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Peter Suber at 3/11/2005 10:16:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
