[Gfoss] Distribuire dati: web o desktop?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Salve.
Di recente, l'ente meteo neozelandese ha prodotto QuantumMap, con l'obiettivo di semplificare la distribuzione dei loro dati, in alternativa ai "soliti" portali web. Questa la loro dichiarazione:

"NIWA wants to provide access to its data. To do this, it is ideal to provide users with a desktop tool that allows them to interact directly with NIWA's datasets, rather than to develop or enhance web portals for every dataset NIWA provides. This tool means that NIWA can focus on providing data, rather than on developing websites and portals where users can interact with data."

che mi pare inusuale, e, come tale, interessante.
Un'altra possibilita' e' offerta dall'integrazione con GeoNode:

There is also work underway to tightly integrate QGIS with Geonode - 
http://geonode.org/2012/09/help-the-world-bank-build-a-geonode-to-qgis-bridge/ 
- so that people who don't like web browsers can directly interact with 
Geonode data-sets from their desktops. This integration work underway is 
very similar to NIWA's quantum map - but instead of talking to a black 
box back at NIWA, Geonode (over QGIS) gives you multifaceted access to 
data stored within your own and other organisations, and in compliance 
to OGC standards (Simple Features etc) and protocols (WFS./WMS etc)

In effetti il paradigma "distribuzione=sito web" e' meno scontato di quel che appare.

Saluti.

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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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