Andy Turner's GRADE Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- This is a Web Page for organising my information about GRADE.
- Contents:
Blog
- 2007-03-07
  - On the request of Rebecca Seymour I filled out the survey at Scoping a Geospatial Repository for Academic Deposit and Extraction
    - I tried to save/obtain my response for future reference, but this was not easy so I didn't think it worthwhile in the end... The key points were Web Accessibility Initiative and Dublin Core. all the rest were suggested improvements.
  - Added reference to WhiteRoseGISGroup
  - Recognised that this relates to the Regional Information Sharing draft project proposal.
- 2007-02-20
  - http://edina.ac.uk/projects/grade/status2.html
- 2007-02-19
  - Informal Information Sharing Workshop, University of Sheffield
    - Overview of the whole day
      - I want to know what this is all about...
      - The idea is to give some feedback to EDINA.
      - Robin is to compile a report.
    - People (round table introductions)
      - Robin Smith
      - John Pritchard
      - Owen McDonnald
      - Richard Kingston
      - Diana Palmer (sp?)
      - Linda See
      - Pragya Argawal
      - Maurizio Gibin
    - Notes
      - There were presentations...
      - Rich thinks that digimap web services are available to digimap users:
        
        We should probably make enquiries about using these for MoSeS.
      - GRADE metadata submission can be annnoying if the data is already in files (cut and paste)
      - It would be good to know who is downloading the data.
      - What references can be used to site and acknowledge the data...
      - GRADE is not really an Open Spatial Data Infrastructure (OSDI), it is a useful component of our current National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and is open to the UK Academic Community
    - Lunch :)
    - Research questions
      - Went through what was on my slide
      - GeoCollaboration
      - Linda
        
        How do we widen access to public sector data?
        
        Building public sector regional repositories
        
        How do we do it?
        
        Distributed/grid computing for accessing data across repositories
      - Robin
        
        What is collaboration?
        
        What policy measures need to be put in place for us to help and be helped?
      - Framework 7 Second Call?
        
        We need international collaborators
        
        Max Craglia (JRC)
        
        Steffen Fritz (IASSA)
- 2007-02-17
  - gg1dp wanted to share files with me on exaroom. No idea who this was so I refused.
  - Some friends wanting to share files with on exaroom no longer have their computers switched on and I seem unable to get the files. AllPeers has the same problem/feature.
  - This makes me think even more that for those that roam around using different computers, it might be hard to use exaroom and AllPeers easily... It might be they can get around this with some sharing/drive mapping...
  - I don't think that Undergraduate and Masters Students at the University of Leeds are obliged to own a networked Personal Computer. These are provided for PhD students and I think they are required for Open Distance Learning students.
  - This also reminds me, we are not forced to pass around licence and metadata using exaroom and AllPeers
    - The licence under which Rich distributed data is implied and it would be wrong for him to get into trouble...
      - I did think about releasing the data into the public domain, but had second thoughts :)
    - GRADE solves the problem of each of us having to be a gatekeeper as it checks users credentials before allowing them to download data.
    - This is worth mentioning on Monday.
- 2007-02-16
  - Adding to the shapefile being passed around:
    - Received a zip file containing a Shapefile from Richard via exaroom.
    - Downloaded uDIG1.1RC9 and used it to edit the shapefile adding in a point location for my office.
      - Used http://www.nearby.org.uk/ to get location information for LS2 9JT - the postcode of the University of Leeds
      - Got annoyed as this took three goes...
      - Worked out in the end that edits need to be committed.
    - Exported the OWS context and bundeld it all together into a zip file
    - Shared the zip file with Linda via AllPeers.
  - Sent my powerpoint file to Robin and explained that I would be writing a web page
- 2007-02-15
  - Conversation with ICOSSGIS (Robin)
- 2007-02-13
  - Problem logging in to the GRADE repository
    - Requested a new password.
    - Oooh! Should probably be using the GRADE geospatial data repository demonstrator not the main system...
  - Maurizio Gibin
  - http://www.allpeers.com/
  - http://www.exaroom.com/beta/about_groundcontrol.aspx
  - exaroom file shared with Maurizio
  - TechCruch: Exaroom
  - TechCruch: Let�s Share Some Files - Four Services Compared
  - Invited Linda to share files with me and my friends using exaroom and allpeers
  - Shared a file with All Friends on exaroom and allpeers
  - Uploading GBRoads.zip to GRADE geospatial data repository demonstrator
    - The system has experienced an internal error. Please try to do what you were doing again, and if the problem persists, please contact us so we can fix the problem.
      - Second time lucky!
    - The data did not pass validation, here is the error report: Error: No supported formats found
      - Tried ESRI Shapefile (in the zip)
      - Tried specifying zip
      - Tried specifying unsupported
      - Tried specifying zip once more... stuck!
  - Uploading aroads.zip 3,904,782 bytes 82a3274838dee7ec87f58f0c073f04b8 (MD5) to GRADE geospatial data repository demonstrator
    - This has validated as an ESRI shapefile format.
    - The bounding box looks right.
    - Sorry it is only Great Britain and not UK
    - Submit: Submission Complete! Your submission will now go through the workflow process designated for the collection to which you are submitting. You will receive e-mail notification as soon as your submission has become a part of the collection, or if for some reason there is a problem with your submission. You can also check on the status of your submission by going to the 'Submit Resources' page.
    - Email confirmation that this has been successful
      - You submitted: Meridian aroads To collection: Collection 1: UK Data Your submission has been accepted and archived in the Grade Repository Demonstrator, Many thanks! The Grade Repository Demonstrator team
- 2007-02-12
  - Authorisation problem uploading data to the GRADE repository.
- 2007-02-05
  - Registered on the GRADE repository demonstrator home page
- 2007-02-02
  - Robin Smith emailed to say I am part of an experiment to test some file copying software for GRADE
  - I dutifully emailed Anne Robertson to request registration for the GRADE repository.
References
- WhiteRoseGISGroup
- Regional Information Sharing draft project proposal.

Andy Turner's GRADE Web Page

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References

Validation and Metadata