Capacity building with the Geoinformation Enabling ToolkIT (GET-IT)
Tuesday, 26 May 2015, 1400 - 1730 hrs
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The workshop is intended to provide a hands-on tutorial on the installation, customisation, and management of the Geoinformation Enabling ToolkIT (GET-IT), the open-source software suite developed by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) in the context of the RITMARE Flagship Project . To our knowledge, the suite is the first open-source collaborative effort toward integration of traditional geographic information with observation data. This is achieved by coupling GeoNode , the SOS implementation by 52ºNorth , and components developed from scratch in the context of RITMARE, primarily for addressing data visualisation and metadata editing. GET-IT enables user-friendly creation of OGC compliant services (WMS, WFS, SOS) in order to allow for interoperable distribution of geographic information and observations. The software can be either assembled from the authoritative GitHub sources or downloaded as a ready-to-use virtual machine that can be installed and run with minimal configuration. In both cases, administrators can further personalise the metadata editing facilities in order to reflect specific INSPIRE profiles and to exploit context information describing the user community, codelists and controlled vocabularies specific to the application domain, and semantic information in general. The primary learning objectives of the workshop are the following:
- To understand how to easily kickstart an OGC-compliant node for the provision of geographic and sensor data.
- To learn how to customise the metadata editing interface by means of the templating language that have been defined.
- To define the context information that is referred to by the application for easing metadata editing.
Link to GitHub page where our (free and open-source) software can be downloaded: https://github.com/SP7-Ritmare
TARGET AUDIENCE
The workshop is addressed to professionals in the geospatial and environmental disciplines who need to share their data in an interoperable way but do not have the technical competencies typically required for setting up a full-fledged Spatial Data Infrastructure. Customisation of the metadata editing interface may require some basic technical skill in the editing of configuration files and/or availability of reference sources for codelists and controlled vocabularies. Moreover, the tech-savvy audience will be introduced to the tailoring of the template-driven metadata editing interface and/or the encoding of data structures expressing context information.
WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS
Instructions for participants:
Participants will need a laptop in order to interact with remote installations of the GET-IT software via a web browser. Configuration of the tool will require ssh (secure shell) access via terminal (for *nix systems, including MacOS) or equivalent software (e.g., Putty for Windows systems). Customisation of the metadata editing tool requires basic knowledge of the XML data format, better if supported by an XML-aware text editor. Full tailoring of the data structures that can be leveraged on by the metadata editing tool will require knowledge of the RDF data model, in any of its serialisation formats (e.g., XML, Turtle, etc.) and basic knowledge of the SPARQL query language.
DETAILED WORKSHOP AGENDA
First session:
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A user-oriented view on the GET-IT software suite.
• Speaker: Alessandro Sarretta, ISMAR-CNR - Publishing data and metadata with GET-IT.
• Speaker: Alessandro Oggioni, IREA-CNR - Setting up GET-IT in a virtualisation environment.
• Speaker: Stefano Menegon, ISMAR-CNR - Assembling and updating GET-IT from the software sources.
• Speaker: Stefano Menegon, ISMAR-CNR
Second session:
- Basic configuration of the software suite.
• Speaker: Alessandro Oggioni, IREA-CNR - Customisation of the metadata editing tool.
• Speaker: Monica Pepe, IREA-CNR - How to plug-in supporting data structures.
• Speaker: Monica Pepe, IREA-CNR
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