One of the highlights of our annual calendar, FOSS4G is THE conference for geospatial professionals. As usual, we’ll be sharing our expertise and experiences as well as learning from others. On the 29th September, our metadata guru, Jo Cook, will be delivering a session in conjunction with Paul van Genuchten from ISRIC. If you’re interested…
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It’s great when the stars align, and a lot of people are talking about, and interested in, the things you like. This happened to Astun recently, when the Open Data Institute (ODI) announced a grant, funded by Innovate UK, for developing open source tools for data institutions. Data Institutions are roughly defined as organisations with…
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Wishing you all good health and good fortune for the year ahead. As you might have noticed over the festive period we got into the Christmas spirit here at Astun with a series of festive tweets. We have some big product releases in the year ahead and there are some hints to what’s in store…
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Background At the end of November I was asked by Francois Prunayre at Titellus to help organise and manage a 3-day code-sprint with the aim of improving GeoNetwork documentation. Documentation can be problematic for projects, even open source, where the majority of the work is done by volunteers. Updating documentation is rarely a priority for…
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I joined Astun two and a half years ago and being a bit of a data geek (having led MapAction’s Data Circle for a number of years pre-children), one of the things that attracted me to the position was Astun’s track record in metadata and their solutions with the Environment Agency / Defra and the…
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