Jeroen Ticheler
CEO/Owner of GeoCat BV and GeoCat Canada Ltd. – Chair and founder of the GeoNetwork opensource – OSGeo Board of Directors.
GeoCat was founded by Jeroen in 2007. Jeroen studied Tropical Forestry at Wageningen University specialising in GIS and Remote Sensing. Following graduation in 1997, he worked for the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in Rome for nine years. Jeroen held various positions for the FAO in GIS/remote sensing and established the GeoNetwork opensource project. The FAO GeoNetwork is the first implementation based on this software, releasing a large quantity of geospatial data to the public.
Today GeoNetwork opensource is widely used as geospatial catalogue application with implementations from smaller projects to national and international level catalogs including National Geospatial & Open Data Registries and the INSPIRE GeoPortal in the EU.
Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. Jeroen is Project Officer for the GeoNetwork opensource project. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board, and did so in 2007 & 2008. He is a Charter member since the early days of OSGeo.
Besides everything geospatial Jeroen loves travel, carpentry, working on his overland truck, study Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology, and walk, work and live outside.
Sessions
We would like to briefly introduce OSGeo to you and trigger your interest in contributing to our mission. While our geospatial projects thrive, OSGeo also faces challenges. These include community involvement, our relationship with other FOSS foundations, financial health of the foundation, professionalisation of both OSGeo as a foundation and FOSS4G conference organisation, stricter requirements around information and IT security and the need for an OSGeo Europe foundation. All examples where OSGeo needs your involvement as a community member. We would like to kick start a round of discussions during this conference and follow up on those topics during Bird of a Feather sessions and online through existing or ad-hoc committees.
The GeoNetwork opensource project is a catalog application facilitating the discovery of data, services and applications within any local, regional, national or global "Spatial Data Infrastructure" (SDI). GeoNetwork is an established technology - recognized as an OSGeo Project and a member of the FOSS4G community since the early days.
The GeoNetwork team would love to share what we have been up to and talk about the different projects that have contributed functionality to the software during the last twelve months. Our rich ecosystem of schema plugins continues to improve; with national teams pouring fixes, improvements and new features into the core application.
GeoNetwork is the backend of the European INSPIRE Geoportal and over 80% of national geospatial catalog end points for INSPIRE. We will discuss a number of developments that are foreseen to evolve easy access to geospatial open data and other open data. How do we work with expert communities to make sure GeoNetwork does what it is expected to do?
We will also talk about the UI revamp through the geonetwork-ui framework, and the new perspectives it could bring to your catalogs. Progress of our main branches (4.4.x), and release schedule.
Attend this presentation for the latest from the GeoNetwork community and this vibrant technology platform.