[GeoNetwork-devel] Introductions

[<Jam...@cs...>]

Hi,

I'm part of an established Java development team within CSIRO (the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation,
Australia's national science agency). We generally work on a mixture of
business and science applications. Working with Simon Pigot and also the
Auscope team we are looking into the use of GeoNetwork in CSIRO. In
addition to using the product we are also keen to contribute to the
project. Our initial focus is on the BlueNet MEST version of GeoNetwork.


One of the important things for us is to be able to collaborate not just
within our organisation but also with other Australian research
institutions. Some of the data cannot be generally released but should
be available to particular research communities. So we are getting
involved in the Australian Access Federation, which is a Shibboleth
based authentication and access system that operates across many
Australian universities and other research institutions.

To that end one of the first things we are interested in contributing is
Shibboleth integration into GeoNetwork. I have prepared a proposal and
will post that on the Trac wiki for review shortly. I thought I should
do an intro before posting the proposal out of the blue though!

Lastly I have read over and accept the Committer Responsibility
Guidelines at http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/committer.

Cheers,
James Dempsey
Technical Specialist (Applications Development)
CSIRO Information Management & Technology (IM&T)
Email jam...@cs...
http://www.csiro.au <http://www.csiro.au/>