Hi list, i'm sending you this mail related to a question i was
discussing, which might be relevant to other osgeo.org communities.
A while ago I registered GeoNetwork as a software item in the are3na
software catalog (https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/interoperability/search).
Recently they updated the software and asked me to review my submission.
These days they have a "publisher"-field as a required field. I wondered
who is actually the publisher of GeoNetwork opensource. Is it the
organisation that prepared a certain release (we rotate this task over
important contributing organisations in the community), could it be
OSGEO.org or should we assign as a community this role to a certain body
(like mentioned in each code fragment header)?
I checked how other OSGEO projects managed this in that catalog. deegree
seems to be added by IDGis, QGIS by faunalia. I liked however the way
Grass has managed this, they registered an organisation "GRASS
Development Team" and assigned that as publisher (and claimed it to be a
"Academia/Scientific organisation").
I'm interested to hear your thoughts about this matter. And also would
urge all communities to register their projects (openlayers, geoserver,
mapserver, geomajas), since the catalog is quite a reference in Europe.
Regards, Paul van Genuchten
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