GeoProMT• Purpose of today’s meeting– Present some research ideas

• Identify people willing to make a commitment to the project– Development could be part of your MS thesis or

project

Christoph’s Idea• Christoph is involved with the Open Geospatial

Consortium– An organization that develops and maintains data

models, and communications standards for geospatial information and services

• An idea is to integrate OGC standards into Geopromt.– Enhance the standing of geopromt as a management

tool by adhering to standards– Focus on a current weak point of geopromt: metadata

Research Questions• What metadata provided by OGC services is

relevant for the GeoProMT?• How can relevant metadata and OGC services be

stored in GeoProMT?• How can the relevant metadata and OGC services

be presented to the user in GeoProMT and be utilized to support the user in searching for data objects or transformation resources?

How to proceed?• review the OGC standards and see which ones

are provide metadata specifications relevant to geopromt

• How can this specification be used to describe geopromt objects?

Requirements and Outcome• XML and Web Services• PHP, HTML/CSS/Javascript and MySQL• Basic knowledge of OGC standards is an

advantage, but not necessarily required

• Outcome is an improved support for metadata in geopromt resulting in a more robust project management tool

• Possibility for a paper.

Ryan’s Idea• Integration of ArcGIS and GeoProMT• Geopromt does not currently depend on any GIS

or other software to manage a project– By design

• Many people use ArcGIS though. • It would be an enhancement to the usability of

geopromt to have a toolbar in ArcGIS that allows direct interaction with GeoProMT

Arc-GeoProMT• Toolbar allows upload and download of files, fills

in object attributes automatically.• Allows for the creation and manipulation of

transformers directly within ArcGIS– Interface to manage transformers in a more ArcGIS

oriented way– Transformer holds information on the name of the

tool, the input dataset names and parameters used• Automatically (or manually within Arc) link

objects with transformers.

Arc-GeoProMT• Populate metadata automatically– Extract from files directly

• Could be part of a MS thesis or project• Skills:– ArcGIS– Programming ability in a language supported by

ArcGIS• C++, .NET, Python

Other development• Give code some polish.• Improve GeoProMT usability• Fix bugs • Integration with vHub• May not be enough for a project/thesis– Gain experience with coding