GeoNetwork User Meeting 2025

Welcome to the GeoNetwork User Meeting!

We are pleased to inform you that your next GeoNetwork User Meeting will be held on September, 16th, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland. These meetings are very important for a community such as GeoNetwork, it provides an opportunity to:

• Foster exchange between users and contributors
• Share expectations and use cases
• Present the current status of the project
• Explore collaboration and potential co-funding opportunities aligned with user needs

As GeoNetwork users, stakeholders, maintainers, developers, contributors, we are warmly expecting you to join the event, to meet and hear from you, to keep this community active and healthy all together.

You are invited to attend the meeting in Bern or, if you cannot participate in person, you have the option to join online.

The agenda for the meeting:

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome (10 min)

9:10 - 9:30 Introductions of participants (round table) (20 min)

9:30 - 10:15 Current State of GeoNetwork project (40+5 min)

• GeoNetwork 4 status
• Highlight of recent features
• DCAT support

10:15 - 10:35 Coffee break (20 min)

10:35 - 11:20 Current State of geonetwork-ui (40+5 min)

• Datahub
• metadata-editor
• Roadmap

11:20 - 12:05 Future of GeoNetwork (v.5) (40+5 min)

• Challenges and motivations
• Roadmap & Milestones
• Crowdfunding

12:05 - 13:30 Lunch break (1:30 hr)

13:30 - 15:00 Build a strong community (1,5 hr)

• Project organization and rituals
• Ongoing initiatives & efforts
• Collect contribution ideas
• How to get users more involved in the direction of the project
• Define a user committee (who, what and how).

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee break (20 min)

15:20 - 16:10 User presentations (50 min)

16:10 - 16:30 AI powered search (20 min)

16:30 - 17:00 Conclusions and Closing (30 min)