ShareGeo: Discovering and Sharing Geospatial Data - 12 months on and going open!
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ShareGeo is a spatially enabled data repository that allows users to search, view, and download geospatial data. It currently hosts 99 datasets and has had over 3,000 unique users and downloads since 2009. To encourage more deposits, it plans to offer an open deposit plugin and open access versions of datasets. Future improvements include visualizing datasets, adding formats like web services, and implementing user annotations and ratings.
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ShareGeo: Discovering and Sharing Geospatial Data - 12 months on and going open!
- 1. ShareGeo Discovering and Sharing Geospatial Data 12 months on and going open! www.sharegeo.ac.uk
- 2. Examples of Geospatial data Grids Boundaries DTM Derived OS data GPS Land -use Imagery
- 3. 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
- 7. Progress to date Current Stats (Jan 2009 - July 2010): 3487 unique users 3277 data downloads 99 datasets deposited (though not many voluntarily)
- 8. How to encourage deposit… 2 key strategies: Offer an open version Create a plugin to enable direct deposit to the repository from where users are creating data
- 9. Why ShareGeo Open now?
- 16. Graffiti 2010
- 18. 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
- 19. Reasons for optimism … OS OpenData of course INSPIRE legislation
Editor's Notes
- This is the Geo-Search interface where users can search for datasets in the repository by defining an area of interest - note the choice of map background can be changed – we actually have to pay Google for the mapping because we're accessing it behind a login – free mapping is not always free! We can also do some complex spatial querying for datasets so that we get the results we are looking for.
- This is the interface shown when a user has uploaded a dataset. The uploaded dataset is validated using open source data translation software which identifies the format and extracts the bounding coordinates of dataset. This information is then automatically added to the datasets metadata record and used for subsequent searching.
- ShareGeo has been developed as a geospatial data sharing facility within the EDINA Digimap suite of services that is accessible to all registered Digimap users – currently there are about 40,000 active users of Digimap throughout UK academia including students and staff, at over 160 institutions. A key element of the other data collections available through Digimap is that they provide access to licensed geospatial data from major data providers such as the Ordnance Survey and BGS for use in academia under licensing terms which also apply to derived datasets.
- The current statistics for ShareGeo look like the following: there are fairly high numbers of logins and users and number of datasets downloaded – the most popular datasets have been downloaded up to 30 times, however there have not been very many new datasets voluntarily deposited – most have been added internally by EDINA staff or transferred from the old GRADE repository.
- With the publish process complete and the new dataset now appearing in ShareGeo Open, Susan can provide her colleages at the council with the persistent identifier for the metadata description and download link for the data. So this is a made up story. But ShareGeo Open is real, and we’re hoping that combined with the desktop plugin this sort of workflow described here is how ShareGeo Open could see data deposits increasing.