Coming up this week - DNF Expert Group Meeting

The DNF Expert Group is in final preparations for its next meeting taking place this week on 1st July.  The meeting will be hosted by Defra, a DNF Expert Group member organisation, using its Innovation Centre in Reading as the venue.  The meeting agenda is a busy one but the focus will be around the evolution of DNF to ensure that it remains relevant to the fast-paced changes in the location information landscape.  Specifically this will look at the role that DNF has to play in support of two key initiatives in spatial information management and wider access to public data.

The meeting will kick off with a technical update featuring two presentations.  The first is a technical guide to INSPIRE Schema Transformation.  The second is an update on the latest developments of the UK Location Programme and data.gov.uk. 

The first is in the role that DNF plays in support of the UK Location Strategy and INSPIRE.  The DNF Expert Group is already linked into the UK Location Programme via its membership of the Location Information Interoperability Board (LIIB).  The second is how the the work supported by DNF can benefit from the emergence of Linked Data.  Both are examples of the ways in which DNF can both support wider industry and technological initiatives but also bring to bear its years of relevance and experience to these initiatives. 

If you are an Expert Group member then please make sure you are registered to attend.  This is done through this website for all registered users.  And if you are not a registered Expert Group member but would like to attend then please contact the DNF Expert Group (contact@dnf.org ).  There is no fee to become an Expert Group member. 

The Expert Group will publish a short summary of this meeting within a week of the event.  Full minutes from the meeting will be circulated later to the Expert Group members. 

- Monday 28 June 2010