201311opendata

On the last couple of years, open government and the use of open data has increased exponentially. There are new platforms highly focused on open and linked data like CKAN. All those frameworks and platforms haven’t focused on INSPIRE regulations or geographic data.

However, the ease of use of these protocols has gathered a large group of users willing to use and develop around this linked data environment. This process has popularized multiple applications based on open data. GeoNetwork should take the best of this open and linked data platforms if we want to participate on all this open government process. We can and should offer both INSPIRE services and open data services, because the target audience for both is different and right now we are only covering part of it.

There is a basic and simple implementation of SPARQL and RDF protocols on geoNetwork, but none of them is stable or complex enough to be a match to specific open and linked data platforms. We should improve and explore further this open and linked data situation, so we can offer the citizens good services they can handle.

GeoNetwork nodes describing opendata resources:

• GrandLyon using dublin core and a opendata category http://catalogue.data.grandlyon.com/geosource/apps/rechercher/?
• Région Aquitaine using ISO19139 and a opendata category http://ids.pigma.org/geonetwork/