Earlier this year COBWEB signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the GeoViQua (QUAlity aware VIsualization for the Global Earth Observation System of systems) project.

We did this as there is crossover in terms of what COBWEB aims to do in the area of quality assuring crowdsourced data and what GeoViQua has been doing in respect of data quality within GEOSS.  Both projects have a strong commitment to interoperability through adherence to open standards.  

As GeoViQua is drawing to a close and COBWEB is still in its infancy, there are opportunities for COBWEB to learn from GeoViQua and maybe take some of their work forward.

To facilitate this, on the 9th and 10th of Sept, the University of Edinburgh (COBWEB coordinators) hosted a GeoViQua consortium meeting at the EDINA offices.  It was a busy GEO week in Edinburgh with lots of people in town for the ESA Living Planet conference.

It was an unusual mixed co-located meeting, with presentations from GeoViQua to the COBWEB team and vice-versa.  Lots of interesting discussion, cross-fertilisation and an increased likelihood that COBWEB will work with the GeoViQua outputs.  Watch this space…