Tuesday 26 July 2011

ELOGeo added features

I have recently added some key features to the ELOGeo repository:

1- Material Preparation Guidelines: A document is put on the website to guide the procedure of preparing and uploading the materials onto the repository and the licensing issues. Links to see the document has been put on several points of the website including the last step of submission workflow.

2- Multiple Language Support: The titles and messages of the website are customized by checking the default language and locale of the user's browser. The supported languages at the moment are: German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Portuguese, Czech and Catalan. (I am working on the Persian version as well)

3- The CC License Selection: I have managed to make the license selectable from a list of CC licenses for each submitting item. The user also doesn't need to challenge with CC's different acronyms because the designed UI will ask for the required rights/features in plain English. Thus we also don't need to have different collections named for each license (unless a non-CC is needed).

4- And very interestingly; Google Scholar Search: Now Google Scholar (and Google itself) have indexed the ELOGeo materials. 

 

Friday 1 July 2011

ELOGeo to be promoted at International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 2011

Suchith Anand will be presenting ELOGeo during the  open business meeting of Open Source Geospatial Technologies  on 4th July 2011 at ICC 2011 as well as promoting ELOGEo during the  three day Open Source GIS walk-in sessions at ICC 2011 on 5th, 6th and 7th July.

Geosolutions, Italy to contribute to ELOGeo

We are pleased to welcome contribution from Geosolutions, Italy for the ELOGeo repository. They will be contributing workshop materials on Geoserver workshop done at OSGIS 2011 to the ELOGeo repository.

Faunalia to contribute to ELOGeo

We are pleased to welcome contribution from Faunalia for the ELOGeo repository. They will be contributing workshop materials on WMS and QGIS workshop done at OSGIS 2011 to the ELOGeo repository.

ELOGeo to be used at Open Source GIS Summer School 2011 in Girona

Jeremy Morley, CGS Deputy Director will be delivering lectures for the second open source GIS Summer School in Girona.This Summer School will be focused on exploring and building the potential of open data sources (such as Spatial Data Infrastructures) and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Geomatics. ELOGeo will be the platform for the sharing of the teaching materials for the benefit of the wider community.

ELOGeo to be promoted at Open Source Junction 2 in Oxford

Sergiusz Pawlowicz will be presenting ELOGeo as part of the open source GIS projects overview in his presentation at Open Source Junction 2: context-aware mobile technologies in Oxford (July 5-6, 2011)