A Request For Sponsors is now open to engage realization of some new EasySDI CORE evolution which is summarized under issue #397.

To declare your interest in funding such realization, please follow these steps:

• if not already done, first register yourself on EasySDI forge
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Thanks to all for your interest!

The EasySDI Steering Committee

Full EasySDI is now available in version 2 for all modules.

This new version contains major enhancements like:

• storing information in a new mysql data model
• refactoring backend layout to ease configuration
• defining metadata keywords through GEMET thesaurus
• managing metadata version
• managing links between metadata types (i.e. reusing metadata contact already defined)
• managing links to tierce applications inside metadata
• adding metadata import facility like XML file and CSW web services

Thanks to all contributors for this work and feel free playing with this new EasySDI release!

The EasySDI steering committee

Canton of Bern (Switzerland) has launched beginning April 2011 its new multilingual Geoportal web site http://www.be.ch/geoportal, based on EasySDI solution.

This new EasySDI sponsor has brought the new version of CATALOG which allow him to:

• manage more then 5000 versionalized metadata
• describe geoproducts, layers and maps
• offer by simple download corresponding data

The solution is based on Open Source projects driven by Geonetwork for storing/publishing ISO19115 metadata and EasySDI for managing metadata in an all-in-one content management system built over Joomla.

Canton of Bern metadata will be opened soon for harvesting to the national catalog Geocat which centralizes all Swiss metadata.

A call of feedback is open now about new MONITOR evolutions proposed by National Cadastre and Survey of Denmark (NSCD).
Please feel free to add your own notes inside the current opened issues in state "Call of feedback".
Thanks to everyone to keep in mind the below rules during the process:

• don't change state of issues nor assign it to anyone else than the project's manager
• don't add new issue; potential new issues will be discussed inside current opened ones and created if needed by project's manager

The project's manager will close, in about one month, the call of feedback and assign resulting tasks in accord with the sponsor NSCD and EasySDI Steering Committee.

Thanks to all for your contribution!

The EasySDI steering committee