11-07, 11:00– (Australia/Hobart), Anglesea Room
The metadata standards and tools landscape can be confusing and ugly. Various tools and standards exist or are under development. The talk will provide clarity and help lead you to solutions that work for you and meet your needs,
“Ask yourself, does your organisation have its documentation and internal records in consistent and reliable order? Because, if it doesn’t, no tool in existence will magically give you reliable and correct answers.” - Baldur Bjarnason
Metadata and Catalogues provide invaluable tools for leveraging your resources in ways that are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) and give the consistency and reliability needed to make the best use of these resources. Yet this landscape is murky, and there is very little good guidance available. In this talk, Byron, who has been at the centre of recent efforts, will provide insight into how to better understand these tools in ways that work for you. Standards such as GeoDCAT, ISO19115, STAC and OGC API Records (amongst others) will be discussed - how, where and when they are best used, separately or together, to benefit all that rely on geospatial resources.
Byron has over 30 years of experience as a leader in providing interoperability and data-linking solutions in many contexts worldwide. His greatest expertise is in implementing and developing Open Data Standards, particularly in the geospatial realm.
Byron's professional journey has taken him across various levels of government, the military, and private industry in New Zealand, Australia, and the US. His expertise in developing, organising, and managing disparate data using standards-based interoperability solutions is sought after by organisations worldwide. In 2018, Byron founded Openwork Ltd.
In recent years Byron has contributed to multiple international interoperability efforts, including the W3C Spatial Data on the Web, numerous testbed and interoperability experiments for the Open Geographic Consortium and standards development for ISO TC 211. Currently, Byron is leading and participating in efforts to improve international metadata standards such as GeoDCAT and ISO19115.
In his spare time, Byron enjoys exploring the Nelson region, getting to know the local craft beers, keeping abreast of current affairs, and picking on his mandolin when it all becomes a bit too much.