Project HUMBOLDT Open Source software released

08 October 2009, 2:29pm

The first components of the HUMBOLDT framework are now published under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (LGPL v3). They are available for free download at the OSS Community Website, see link below.

This developer preview release includes the following software components:

* The HUMBOLDT GeoModel Editor, a graphical editor to support the formal and complete specification of conceptual data models, specifically tailored for the handling of geodata specifications;

* The HUMBOLDT Alignment Editor, a tool that supports the definition of conceptual schema transformations;

* The Mediator Service, a proxy service that executes transformation chains to provide harmonised geodata;

* The Workflow Design and Construction Service, a service that analyses data sets and decides which processing is required to match a target product description;

* The Context Service, a service that can be used to define the transformation target product;

* Several transformation services exposed as OGC Web Processing Services, such as Coordinate Transformation Service and Edge Matching Service.

More detailed descriptions of services and applications, such as full specifications, are avai­lable under the same license as the software itself. Furthermore, a forum, wiki and issue tracker are made available.

With this first major step towards the creation of an Open Source Community the HUM­BOLDT consortium invites developers to test the design and expandability of the framework. Suggestions and contributions are highly welcome.

In the meantime the development process for the second version of the HUMBOLDT framework was initiated. The progress of this process can be followed through the Community Website, and the release candidates are expected to be published within October 2009.

HUMBOLDT OSS Community Website

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