New collection arrangement

After a logical/conceptual review, the new structure of categories and collections in the ELOGeo has been organized as follows. There will be also possible cross-linking between the collections, so an item can be in more than one collection. Also date-tagged collection can help keeping track of updating the documents.

• Conference Series
  • FOSS4G 2008 and before 
  • FOSS4G 2009 
  • FOSS4G 2010 
  • FOSS4G 2011 
  • OSGIS 2009 
  • OSGIS 2010 
  • OSGIS 2011 
• Educational Series 
  • GIS for Educators Series 
  • GIS Summer School 
• Learning Materials 
  • e-Books 
  • Interactive and Multimedia 
  • Lecture Notes and Presentations 
  • Research Articles 
  • Tutorials and Practicals 
  •  Other Types of Material 
• Use Cases 
  • Disaster Management 
  • Environmental Management 
  • Flood Mapping 
  • Food, Agriculture and Forestry 
  • Health 
  • Transportation 
  • Urban planning and architecture 
  •  Other Case Studies 

Linfiniti Consulting contributes to ELOGeo

We are pleased to welcome contribution from Tim Sutton (linfiniti.com) for the ELOGeo repository. Tim Sutton is project steering committee member of the Quantum GIS project and founding member of Linfiniti Consulting CC. - a small business set up with the goal of helping people to learn and use open source GIS software.  They have contributed the following learning materials to ELOGeo

1. Introduction to GIS

2. Vector data

3. Attribute data

4. Digitising vector data

5. Raster data

6. Topology

7. Coordinate reference systems

8. Map production

9. Spatial analysis: vector data

10.Spatial analysis: raster data

Thanks to Tim and colleagues at Linfiniti Consulting for thier contributions

Oxford Archaeology contributes to ELOGeo

 

We are pleased to welcome contribution from Oxford Archaeology for the ELOGeo repository.  Anna Hodgkinson has contributed the following learning materials

# 3D Visualisation and Analysis of archaeological vector and raster data using open source geospatial software

# Using the Helmert (two-point) transformation in Quantum GIS

# Basic introduction into pgAdmin III and SQL queries

# QGIS Handy Hints

# Survey and GIS Manual

Thanks Anna and Oxford Archaeology for their contributions.

ELOGeo hit 1000+ visitors over the first fortnight

By the first day of August we have had a 1021 visitors of the ELOGeo repository (http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui). Thanks to Suchith and his network of experts that promote the repository.

Top country views are:

United Kingdom	267
United States of America	130
Spain	90
France	57
Romania	55
Germany	38
Canada	28
India	27
Italy	25
South Africa	16

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. 

 

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.

Details at http://kartoweb.itc.nl/kobben/ICA-OSGEO-workshop

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.