(Re)introducing myself

[Jo Walsh]

dear all,

I've just moved back to the UK and thought I should (re)introduce
myself to the UK OSGeo community. After three years on the OSGeo Board
I'll be standing down this summer - between them, my new workplace
and my one-year-old son leave me very little time for outside interests.
But I hope to connect more to OSGeo at the grassroots, as it were.

I've just started work at EDINA, the JISC national data centre
based at Edinburgh University. Here I'm taking a project called
"GeoCrossWalk" and helping to turn it into a dependable service.
It's a combination of gazetteer and geoparser, designed to
plug in to other information services and help mine document
repositories for interesting geographical references.

It is restricted to academic users who have access to Digimap:
( http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/description/ )
In future, I hope this will change, as on the one hand, OS
introduce more flexible "multi-client" licenses that work across the
public sector; and on the other hand, we have the time to prototype a
public geodata version of the GeoCrossWalk gazetteer.

In a couple of months time I'll be trying to reach out to people in UK
academic information services and beyond, and hope I'll eventually
meet many of you on this list. I was sorry to miss the UK OSGIS
conference in Nottingham, was in the middle of the move over from Spain.
Are there writeups, blog summaries etc that can be seen?

cheers,


jo

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Jo Walsh

Service Manager, GeoCrossWalk
EDINA National Datacentre
tel: [phone]

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
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[Jo Cook]

Hi Jo,

Good to hear from you! I should write a summary of the OSGIS 2009 event, and do mean to, but have been too busy so far...

You will no doubt meet James Reid who also works at Edina (cc'd)- he is keen on establishing a Scottish chapter to take into account the geographic separation, and also the fact that legislation is a little different in Scotland. I'm sure they would welcome your feedback and participation, as do we in the UK chapter!

Jo (this could get confusing...)
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Sent: Monday, 6 July, 2009 16:29:46 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: [OSGeo-UK] (Re)introducing myself

dear all,

I've just moved back to the UK and thought I should (re)introduce
myself to the UK OSGeo community. After three years on the OSGeo Board
I'll be standing down this summer - between them, my new workplace
and my one-year-old son leave me very little time for outside interests.
But I hope to connect more to OSGeo at the grassroots, as it were.

I've just started work at EDINA, the JISC national data centre
based at Edinburgh University. Here I'm taking a project called
"GeoCrossWalk" and helping to turn it into a dependable service.
It's a combination of gazetteer and geoparser, designed to
plug in to other information services and help mine document
repositories for interesting geographical references.

It is restricted to academic users who have access to Digimap:
( http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/description/ )
In future, I hope this will change, as on the one hand, OS
introduce more flexible "multi-client" licenses that work across the
public sector; and on the other hand, we have the time to prototype a
public geodata version of the GeoCrossWalk gazetteer.

In a couple of months time I'll be trying to reach out to people in UK
academic information services and beyond, and hope I'll eventually
meet many of you on this list. I was sorry to miss the UK OSGIS
conference in Nottingham, was in the middle of the move over from Spain.
Are there writeups, blog summaries etc that can be seen?

cheers,


jo

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Jo Walsh

Service Manager, GeoCrossWalk
EDINA National Datacentre
tel: [phone]

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Joanne Cook
Senior IT Support and Development
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net


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[Jo Walsh]

Joanne Cook wrote:
> Hi Jo,
>
> Good to hear from you! I should write a summary of the OSGIS 2009 event, and do mean to, but have been too busy so far...
>
> You will no doubt meet James Reid who also works at Edina (cc'd)- he is keen on establishing a Scottish chapter to take into account the geographic separation, and also the fact that legislation is a little different in Scotland. I'm sure they would welcome your feedback and participation, as do we in the UK chapter!

Yes, I sit next to him, when he is here. :) And when he gets back
from holiday I'll ask more about his ideas for a Scottish local chapter.
He mentioned briefly that you'd discussed putting in a UK bid for
FOSS4G 2012 - perhaps even here in Edinburgh, if a big enough space can
be found.

There is promising movement towards FOSS here at EDINA; after years of
evaluation, the ops team are now migrating most backends to PostGIS.
This year's release of Digimap will have an OpenLayers frontend
for the first time. It's working with something called "Mapfish",
an AJAXy UI component toolkit, which I had not come across before
and it looks really good: http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki
And of course Mapserver and Geoserver have been here for a while.

be well!


jo
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Service Manager, GeoCrossWalk
EDINA National Datacentre
tel: [phone]

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[Jo Cook]

We are talking about submitting a bid to host the conference in 2012. Currently there is interest from a couple of host cities- Liverpool being another strong choice. It's obviously at a very early stage yet though!

Jo
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From: "Jo Walsh" <[hidden email]>
To: "Joanne Cook" <[hidden email]>
Cc: [hidden email], "james reid" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 July, 2009 09:16:04 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-UK] (Re)introducing myself

Joanne Cook wrote:
> Hi Jo,
>
> Good to hear from you! I should write a summary of the OSGIS 2009 event, and do mean to, but have been too busy so far...
>
> You will no doubt meet James Reid who also works at Edina (cc'd)- he is keen on establishing a Scottish chapter to take into account the geographic separation, and also the fact that legislation is a little different in Scotland. I'm sure they would welcome your feedback and participation, as do we in the UK chapter!

Yes, I sit next to him, when he is here. :) And when he gets back
from holiday I'll ask more about his ideas for a Scottish local chapter.
He mentioned briefly that you'd discussed putting in a UK bid for
FOSS4G 2012 - perhaps even here in Edinburgh, if a big enough space can
be found.

There is promising movement towards FOSS here at EDINA; after years of
evaluation, the ops team are now migrating most backends to PostGIS.
This year's release of Digimap will have an OpenLayers frontend
for the first time. It's working with something called "Mapfish",
an AJAXy UI component toolkit, which I had not come across before
and it looks really good: http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki
And of course Mapserver and Geoserver have been here for a while.

be well!


jo
--
Jo Walsh

Service Manager, GeoCrossWalk
EDINA National Datacentre
tel: [phone]

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.



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Joanne Cook
Senior IT Support and Development
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net


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[Mateusz Loskot]

Jo Walsh wrote:
> dear all,
>
> I've just moved back to the UK and thought I should (re)introduce
> myself to the UK OSGeo community.

Hi Jo,

It's really nice to see you hear!

> After three years on the OSGeo Board
> I'll be standing down this summer - between them, my new workplace
> and my one-year-old son leave me very little time for outside interests.
> But I hope to connect more to OSGeo at the grassroots, as it were.

Cool.

> I've just started work at EDINA, the JISC national data centre
> based at Edinburgh University. Here I'm taking a project called
> "GeoCrossWalk" and helping to turn it into a dependable service.
> It's a combination of gazetteer and geoparser, designed to
> plug in to other information services and help mine document
> repositories for interesting geographical references.

Sounds great!

Good luck on your new position and any plans to blog about your
activities in there on frot.org?

Cheers,
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Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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