This workshop explores potential synergy between QGIS and EntryScape, demonstrating how potential integration can enable organizations to effectively manage, share, and govern QGIS data through metadata management. In today's data-driven world, organizations face challenges of making geospatial data accessible and usable across different departments and externally. This workshop addresses challenges by showcasing the potential complete open-source synergy that could leverage the strengths of both QGIS and EntryScape.

QGIS, a leading open-source Geographic Information System, provides robust tools for creating, editing, and analyzing spatial data. However, managing and sharing data effectively, especially in compliance with standards, can be complex. This is where standardized and structured metadata with EntryScape comes in. EntryScape is an open-source metadata management software allowing organizations to catalog, describe, and govern data with metadata according to various metadata profiles, including INSPIRE (NMDP4 in Sweden), GeoDCAT-AP and DCAT-AP adaptations such as DCAT-AP-SE and more.

This workshop will delve into the potential technical aspects of integrating QGIS and EntryScape. Participants will be involved through a presentation about the potential synergy and discussions on how to connect QGIS with EntryScape in the future, which will enable metadata creation and synchronization. The workshop will demonstrate how to use EntryScape to enrich QGIS data with comprehensive metadata, ensuring discoverability and interoperability. Specifically, the workshop will cover:
- Technical roadmap and development towards the possibility of setting up integration between QGIS and EntryScape.
- How to manually create and edit metadata for QGIS layers and projects within EntryScape.
- Applying relevant metadata standards, such as INSPIRE (NMDP4 in Sweden), GeoDCAT-AP,DCAT-AP-SE and customized metadata profiles, to QGIS data.
- Publishing and sharing QGIS data and metadata through EntryScape - the manual way and the plans for future automations
- Enabling internal and external access to QGIS data, including making external datasets available for public consumption.
- Utilizing EntryScape's governance features to manage data quality and ensure compliance.

By attending this workshop, participants will gain knowledge of the combined power of QGIS and EntryScape to build a robust and open-source data management solution. This solution empowers organizations to not only organize and govern their QGIS data, but also to facilitate data sharing and collaboration both internally and externally. Participants will leave with insights to implement a future potential integration within or between organizations, fostering data-driven decision-making and promoting data sharing. The workshop will emphasize open-source synergy to create a comprehensive and cost-effective solution for managing geospatial data.

Andreas Fogelberg is the presenter who works as the team lead developer at MetaSolutions AB, main developers of EntryScape. He specializes in geospatial data management and open-source solutions. With a background spanning both public and private sectors, he brings extensive experience from organizations like Consid, Tobii, Sweco, and various municipality. His expertise lies in integrating and customizing geospatial tools to meet specific organizational needs, with a focus on metadata management. Andreas is passionate about fostering data sharing and empowering organizations to effectively manage their geospatial information.