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| Gigateway
Newsletter - June 2005 |
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Gigateway Annual Review 2004-2005 |
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| The 'Gigateway 2004-2005: A Year In Review' document was published online during May and intends to describe the achievements, changes and challenges that gigateway has made and experienced along the way. |
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Highlights from the last year include Robert Mann joining the AGI as director, various MetaGenie training sessions being attended by over 350 delegates, MetaGenie Online being developed making the publishing of standards compliant metadata even easier and a revamp of the gigateway website.
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Gigateway releases a new tool - MetaGenie Showbox |
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| Good quality geographic metadata need to contain geographic coordinates, to enable the data to be more easily found using a map-based search. It also allows the geographic area that the data relates to to be more accurately described. MetaGenie Showbox is a new tool to obtain geographic coordinates using a simple map-based interface. It also allows you to enter place-names or counties and obtain a bounding box. |
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| To find a placename, administrative area or postcode area, enter its name and click on the arrow. You can also use the map to interactively locate it, by using the mouse to draw a box on the map, or selecting a zoom level from the scale on the right of the map and using the pan buttons. |
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| We hope this tool, used in conjunction with the existing MetaGenie tools, will make the process of creating metadata even easier. Try it now by clicking here and going to the 'MetaGenie Showbox' link at the top of the page. |
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| MetaGenie Workshops in Ireland |
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The GeoInformation Group will be providing MetaGenie workshop sessions on 16th June in Belfast in preparation for the launch of the Mosaic Pilot Projects, one of which is to establish a Northern Ireland metadata node to link to gigateway.
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| If you are interested in attending one of these free MetaGenie training sessions contact Leona Lees on Leona.Lees@osni.gov.uk who will register you for the event. Places are limited so please book early. |
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