LINK TO SUMMARY OF GREATER NYC OPEN GEOPORTAL MEETING
NYC Open Geoportal Meeting
Friday, December 13th
Location: New York University (NYU)
Map of Meeting Location (PDF)
Morning Sessions (8:30am-12:30pm)
NYU Kimmel Center for University Life – Room 914, 60 Washington Square S, New York
Afternoon Working Meeting (1:30-4:45pm)
NYU Bobst Library – Room 619, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY
Through the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and NYU, we are happy to announce the first New York City Open Geoportal Meeting on Friday, December 13th hosted by New York University (NYU). The goals of the meeting are to:
1. Build relationships between individuals and organizations interested in geospatial data management around the greater New York City area.
2. Introduce the Open Geoportal community, software application and underlying technology
3. Work towards setting up a NYC Open Geoportal environment.
AGENDA
In the morning we will introduce OGP functionality, underlying technology, metadata requirements, and future developments. We will also allow for selected participants to provide an optional five minute ignite talk introducing their interest in greater NYC geospatial data.
After the morning sessions, we will hold a smaller gathering of working meetings to discuss a NYC OGP task force, answer detailed technical questions, and determine key action items to develop a NYC OGP instance. The afternoon is designed for those with an interest in spatial data infrastructure (SDI).
Agenda (PDF)
DETAILED AGENDA
| Time | Title | Presenter |
| Morning Conference (8:30am-12:30pm) NYU Kimmel Center for University Life – Room 914 60 Washington Square S, New York, NY |
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| 8:30-9:00 | Food & Refreshments | |
| 9:00-9:30am | Welcome & Introductions | Scott Collard, NYU |
| 9:30-10:00am | Ignite Sessions 1 Alan Leidner, Booz Allen; NYS GIS Association Matt Knutzen, New York Public Library Himanshu Mistry, New York University Nathan Storey, PediaCities |
Selected Presenters |
| 10:00-10:30am | Overview of Open Geoportal | Patrick Florance, Tufts |
| 10:30-11:00am | Overview OGP Information Architecture & Underlying Technology | Chris Barnett, Tufts Steve McDonald |
| 11:00-11:30am | Break with Refreshments | |
| 11:30-12:00pm | OGP Current & Future Developments: OGP 2.0, Harvester, Metadata Toolkit, Hosted Services, OGP Crawler |
Chris Barnett & Patrick Florance, Tufts, Steve McDonald |
| 12:00-12:30 | Ignite Sessions 2 Steve Romalewski, Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center Frank Donnelly, Baruch College–CUNY Holly Orr, New York University Eric Glass, Columbia University |
Selected Presenters |
| 12:30-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| Afternoon Working Meetings (1:30-4:45pm) NYU Bobst Library – Room 619 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY |
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| 1:30-2:15pm | Greater NYC Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) | Participants discuss their SDI Data holdings, IT infrastructure, staff, metadata, etc. |
| 2:15-3:00pm | Metadata Formats & Best Practices | Intro: Marc McGee, Harvard Participants discuss metadata authoring, workflow, coordination OpenGeoportal_Metadata |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Break | |
| 3:30-4:30pm | Information Architecture (IA) & Governance | Participants discuss IA & Governance needed to establish a greater NYC OGP Instance |
| 4:30-4:45 | Summary | Patrick Florance, Tufts |
REGISTRATION
General registration is now closed.
Participants include Columbia University, NYU, CUNY Graduate Center, Hunter-CUNY, Baruch-CUNY, New York Public Library, Tufts University, Harvard University, and various local and federal government agencies among others.
QUESTIONS
Please contact patrick.florance@tufts.edu
BACKGROUND
The idea of the NYC OGP originated during the National OGP Summit. The Open Geoportal is a collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to rapidly discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories. It is also a community of best-practice around those interested in geospatial data management and spatial data infrastructure (SDI). It was developed by Tufts, Harvard, and MIT and currently has over 30 partner organizations.
Tufts Instance – just zoom in on the map to New York City, Boston, Afghanistan, etc. to see some relevant holdings
http://geodata.tufts.edu
Open Geoportal Organization
http://opengeoportal.org