WOSSAT – Wellington – 21 August 2018

The attempt to standardize the Do-Not-Track HTTP request header is going nowhere, and it’s cute anyway, in that it expects the other side to honour the request, and how would we know if they did? After all, tracking is serious business, and it’s hard to imagine a company in this field walking past money lying on the street without picking it up.

Martin is at war with what the Web has become, and he’s here to talk to you about techniques he’s using to minimise his browsing footprint on a day to day basis. Do not attend if you’d prefer to think of the Web as the decentralized knowledge-sharing network it was originally conceived as.

The NIWA Marine Data portal started life as a web portal for a Bay of Islands research project in 2008. The entire site was based on open source and open standards to provide open data (and open information – there is a difference!). NIWA has a number of other marine research projects that need a “web presence” so the site was enhanced and renamed to support multiple projects.

The portal is based on a suite of open Source applications, including Silverstripe (CMS), PostGIS (spatial database), Geonetwork (metadata catalogue), mapserver (spatial data web services), Openlayers (web map client). It runs on Linux servers. Data is served and accessed using OGC web services (WMS, WFS, CSW) and some of the data services have been picked up and reused elsewhere.

Wellington Open Source Show And Tell is a monthly meetup for fans of all things open. Come along to share tools, techniques and experiences.