ShareGeo Open

Title

ShareGeo Open

Duration

2010 - December 2010

Website

ShareGeo Open Website

Summary

ShareGeo Open is a spatial data repository that promotes data sharing between creators and users of spatial data. It is the place where researchers, students and lecturers at UK HEFE institutions can deposit data for anyone to download and use. This will both increase the use of spatial data and forge links between data creators and data consumers. Data held in ShareGeo Open can also be discovered through aggregating search portals such as Go-Geo!. ShareGeo Open was developed as part of EDINA’s continuing goal to ensure continuity of access to data for the UK academic and education sector.

Records published through ShareGeo Open are also exposed through Go-Geo! making data more discoverable as Go-Geo! allows more sophisticated searches which disambiguate place.

Project Deliverables

The deliverables for the project are:

• to create a repository for open geospatial data
• to encourage data to be shared and re-used, streamline the process of finding usable data
• to provide an easy search interface for users to discover data
• a plugin to enable direct deposit to the repository from ArcGIS

History

ShareGeo Open is the culmination of several JISC funded geospatial data repository projects:

GRADE (Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction) investigated the technical and cultural issues around the sharing and reuse of geospatial data.

ShareGeo Digimap was developed from GRADE and aimed to allow Digimap users to share data that may be subject to copyright restrictions. Users of ShareGeo Digimap had to be registered with Digimap and only had access to data that was covered by their institutions subscription. ShareGeo Digimap sat behind a UK Federation login.

EDINA Contact

Anne Robertson