The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites developers to the hybrid in-person and online 2024 OGC Metadata Code Sprint, to be held November 18-19, 2024. The code sprint, sponsored by AURIN (the Australian Urban Research Information Network), and SURROUND Australia (catering), is organized by the GeoDCAT Standards Working Group (SWG) and Metadata & Catalogues Domain Working Group (DWG). This code sprint will coincide with the ISO TC211 Plenary meetings in Sydney and focus on implementations of various OGC and ISO metadata standards using the OGC API family of Standards, as well as the GeoDCAT semantic model for dataset descriptions.
Where & when:
The code sprint will take place in-person and on the virtual platforms, GoToMeeting and Discord. The in-person event will run from 8:00am to 6:00pm Australian Eastern Time each day from November 18-19, 2024. Our venue will be the University of New South Wales in in Sydney, Australia (map) and is sponsored by our host, AURIN in the Anita B. Lawrence Centre, Lv4, room 4035.
The online event will have more flexible hours to suit the needs of participants location. A final virtual meeting is proposed for the third day of the event to summarize findings.
Anyone who has an interest in geospatial metadata is encouraged to attend. Beyond developers, we welcome data managers, standards experts, and others who understand the need for effective metadata and its exchange. Interested participants are encouraged to submit Proposals and Use Cases via the OGC Metadata Codesprint 2024 GitHub repo.
A pre-event webinar will be held on 24 October 2024 at 7:00pm Australian Eastern Time (08:00 UTC) to review proposals and use cases. Please attend, share your ideas and build teams to work on these during the Code Sprint.
Participation in the code sprint and pre-event webinar is free.
More Details:
The Metadata Code Sprint will have a primary focus on the following group of tools, APIs and encodings:
- OGC GeoDCAT – (under development) a spatio-temporal profile of the W3C DCAT Recommendation DCAT, and provide guidance about its use and further specialization. OGC GeoDCAT is inspired by the GeoDCAT-AP specification but defines just the internationally relevant concepts to allow wider application. The key areas to consider are around the expression of place and time, such as GeoDCAT-AP properties-for-location
- OGC API – Records provides a way to browse or search a curated collection of records of geospatial resources, known as a catalog. A record makes a resource discoverable by providing summary information (e.g. metadata) about the geospatial resource.
- ISO 19115 Standards define the schema required for describing geographic information and services by means of metadata. Of particular interest will be recent developments on JSON encodings provided by ISO 19115-4.
- STAC provides a common structure for describing and cataloging spatiotemporal assets. A spatiotemporal asset is any file that represents information about the earth captured in a certain space and time.
- Other metadata standards, such as CDIF, EML, and Local Context may be included where the use of these have important implications on the utility of geospatial metadata.
- Particular focus will be placed on use of OGC modular “building blocks for location” that address both simple and the most complex use-cases.
Before and during the code sprint, there will be an opportunity for joint discussion with all participants on the goals and objectives of the event, as well as the final briefing of findings and opinions of the participants. However, the majority of the time will be spent in collaboration between participants in active coding.
For more information on the Sprint, including objectives, agenda, and registration, visit the November 2024 OGC Metadata Code Sprint wiki page on GitHub. Information on other OGC Sprints or events for developers can be found on the OGC Developer Events wiki on GitHub.
For more technical information about OGC Standards, including how to get started, links to each Standards’ GitHub page, official Standards documents, compliance, and more, visit developer.ogc.org