The FOSSGIS 2025 closed its doors a while ago after four full days of presentations, workshops and Birds of a Feather meetings! 727 participants traveled to Münster for the event and 385 followed online. 52°North showcased expertise in various fields, such as Cloud technologies and DevOps, interoperability and data integration, Spatial Data Science with co-design, and provided insight into KomMonitor developments.
Designing and implementing a research data infrastructure to assist scientists from the aquatic realm to restore healthy oceans, rivers, and lakes
I was pretty sure that the statement “Finland is a heavy metal country” was just a cliché. But it’s not. You can walk through a university building and someone plays “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica on an acoustic guitar. But you can also enter the local shopping center on the same day and see a group of people performing Lordi’s “Hard Rock Hallelujah”. Fiction? That’s exactly what happened to me on my trip to Oulu for the AquaINFRA Use Case Meeting. Anyway, back to business.
In short, what is AquaINFRA about? As I already described in a previous blog post, the main goal is to design and implement a research data infrastructure to assist scientists from the aquatic realm in restoring healthy oceans, rivers, and lakes. The infrastructure is made up of three key components:
Authors: Julia Kraatz and Katharina Demmich
Have you ever found yourself reading about climate change and wondered to what extent you or someone you know might be impacted? How your community might be impacted? And then, how you could find out this information?
As global emissions rise and the state of our climate becomes increasingly uncertain, questions like these are common, and you would not be alone in asking them. That’s why projects like DIRECTED1 and I-CISK2 aim to create open-source, interoperable, scalable, and user-friendly platforms to provide information on the risk of severe weather events and the effects of climate change to users, just like you.
In the following sections, we will take you through two use-cases within the DIRECTED and I-CISK projects that showcase how climate information can be accessible, and informative, within the respective projects’ labs.
Greetings, open-source community!
I’m Pranjal Goyal, a software engineer from India, currently based in Munich, Germany. I am honored to announce my participation in this year’s Google Summer of Code with 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH. I am thrilled to contribute to the KomMonitor Web Client by completing its critical migration from AngularJS to modern Angular. During the current Community Bonding Period, I have been collaborating closely with my mentors, Sebastian Drost and Christoph Wagner, to lay a solid foundation for this project.