-------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Open Geoportal - Tufts Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:22:23 +0000 From: Florance, Patrick <[log in to unmask]> To: "Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship" <[log in to unmask]>, Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know that Tufts instance of The Open Geoportal is live. We still have a bit of work to do, but please feel free to check it out and let us know what you think and if you are interested in partnering in some way. Just zoom in on the map and/or use the keyword to find data and maps. We will be focusing on pushing a ton of international and domestic data in the next few months. http://geodata.tufts.edu/ Here’s a blurb about The Open Geoportal: Many organizations and institutions are developing large spatial data repositories. Discovering and accessing these data sets pose many challenges. As a result, Tufts and Harvard are collaboratively developing an open source, federated web application to discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data as part of global and national spatial data infrastructure. The Open Geoportal combines an intuitive, map-based search interface along with traditional text-based metadata search tools for rapid data discovery. It is comprised of several universities and organizations and makes thousands of geospatial data layers available through a single open source interface; partners include Harvard, MIT, MassGIS, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Yale, University of Wisconsin, USAID, UConn, University of Georgia/State of Georgia, UC Santa Barbara. Built on open source technology, The Open Geoportal provides organizations the opportunity to share geospatial data, maps, metadata, and development resources through a single common interface. Key open source components include Geoserver, Open Layers, Solr/Lucene, GeoWebCache, jQuery, etc. More information can be found here: http://opengeoportal.org Thank you for your time, Patrick Patrick Florance Manager of Geospatial Technology Services, (AT-UIT) Adjunct Lecturer Fletcher School of International Law & Diplomacy Tufts University 16 Dearborn Rd. Somerville, MA, USA 02144 phone: 617.627.4235 email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://gis.tufts.edu