GeoNetwork online user meeting 23 June 2020

• Dates: 23rd of June, 2020
• Location: Online

We would like to bring together users and developers of Geonetwork for a moment of exchange around the practices and perspectives of development of Geonetwork, in particular the version 4, which is a major advance with ElasticSearch.

Regarding the Geonetwork road map, we are considering three topics for discussion:

• Improving search capabilities with the move to ElasticSearch
• Making the application more robust with Microservices
• User interface improvements

Agenda

• 09:30 : Welcome Message
  • Presentation of the Participants, Organization of the Meeting, Brief Survey Overview
• 09:45 : Session 1 : GeoNetwork 4 / User expectations? It is all about search …
  • By François-Xavier Prunayre (titellus) and Paul Van Genuchten (Geocat BV)
• 10:45 : Session 2 : Architecture : going to micro-services
  • By Pierre Mauduit (Camptocamp)
• 11:15 : Break (15 minutes)
• 11:30 : Session 3 : A better GeoNetwork user experience
  • By Olivier Guyot and Florent Gravin (Camptocamp)
• 12:15 : Lunch Break

During this break you will be kindly asked to express your expectations and priorities for the future of geonetwork on a shared dashboard and answer a quick survey that will be used during session 5 in the afternoon.

• 14:00 : Session 4 : GeoNetwork live: Real life examples
  • 8 presentations - 10min per presentation
  • geocat.ch the Swiss metadata geographic catalogue (Raphaëlle Arnaud)
  • GeoNetwork implementation at the European Environment Agency (Jose Miguel Rubio Iglesias)
  • LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue (Lucia Vaira)
  • Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) - Infraestructura de Dades Espacials de Catalunya (IDEC) (Jordi Escriu)
  • Mon GéoSource - Use of GeoNetwork portals for public organization in France (Thierry Vilmus)
  • Deutsche Telekom (Christoph Dittmann)
  • Service Public de Wallonie (Stéphane Ritzenthaler)
  • Astun Technology (Jo Cook)
  • Harmonized North American Profile (HNAP) (David Blasby and Jody Garnett, GeoCat Canada)
• 15:30 : Session 5 : Plenary discussion on future collaboration opportunities
• 17:00 : Wrap up of the day