Genesis of the project

• Consortium established on active research, commercial, and personal interactions
• Consortium members are active contributors to Free and Open Source Geospatial Software
• Idea based on practical experience (2010-) from geodata.gov.gr and our interaction with users,publishers and SMEs

Why PublicaMundi?

• Imago Mundi
  • Image of the World, Babylonian world map
  • Maps, created by cartographers and geographers
• PublicaMundi
  • Image of the World, based on Open Data
  • Maps, created by open knowledge and FOSS

Consortium

Athena

• Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies
• Non-profit, research organization, governed by public law
• Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS)

Rasdaman

• rasdaman GmbH
• R&D centric SME, established in 2003 (MBO in 2010)
• Areas of business: commercial support for rasdaman Array DBMS; consultancy on SDIs & standards
• Geospatial World Innovation Award (2013)

GeoLabs

• GeoLabs SARL
• R&D centric SME focused on FLOSS GIS
• Senegalease Land register (2007)
• 3D module development for Terra Explorer (2008) in IGN 3D Geoportal
• Development of the MapMint SDI using WPS, other OGC Web Services and OASIS

GET

• Geospatial Enabling Technologies LtD
• SME focused on GeoInformatics
• Successful design and implementation of projects for public and private sector related to geospatial data production, management, curation, geospatial applications (desktop, mobile, web)
• One of the first Greek private companies invested in Open Source GIS technology

Goals

Research and develop methodologies, as well as scalable, reusable tools to facilitate:

• the publication
• discovery
• and reuse

of open geospatial data

Goals

• Open data catalogues fully supporting publishing, curation and management lifecycle of geospatial data
• Interlinking of geospatial data and multilinguality support in a cross-boundary context
• Scalable technologies and services to create and reuse on-demand maps from open geospatial data
• Analytics to accurately monitor the usage of open geospatial data
• Scalable technologies and reusable data APIs supporting querying, processing, and analysis of open geospatial data

Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

• It's a prerequisite for Big Data and Cloud Computing
• Everybody uses FOSS today, even without knowing it

CKAN

An abbreviation for “Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network”

Open Source web platform for publishing and sharing data with impressive deployment history:

• EU Open Data Portal

• USA data.gov

• UK data.gov.uk

• Australia data.gov.au

• and many many others...

PublicaMundi and FOSS

• Based on CKAN open data catalogue
• PublicaMundi will spatially extend CKAN using OGC standards
• Development is based exclusively on the OSGeo stack

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)

Since 2006 A Non Profit Umbrella for:

• GeoSpatial Free and Open Source Software
• Education
• Open Data

OSGeoLive

• GNU/Linux distribution
• 60+ Open Source Geospatial Applications
• Sample Datasets
• Consistent Overviews & Quickstarts
• Translations
• Unfortunately Big Data do not fit on a 4GB DVD...

High level architecture

OGC standards and INSPIRE

• Discovery Services
• View Services
• Download Services
• Processing Services

Earth Observation Big Data

• Integration with rasdaman
• WCPS and WPS support

Architecture Overview