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"An overlay journal performs all the activities of a scholarly journal and relies on structural links with one or more archives or repositories to perform its activities."

OpenGeoportal.org is a new site that brings together geospatial professionals, developers, metadata specialists, and librarians to coordinate the Open Geoportal (OGP) project. The Open Geoportal is a collaboratively developed, open source, federated web application to rapidly discover, preview, and retrieve geospatial data from multiple repositories.

A number of universities are partnering on developing geospatial metadata and a tool that can scrape datasets from various sources to display (and overlay!) on a single, federated interface.

One objective of the community domains forum discussions is to move our thinking from isolated subjects into a thought ecology, or whole-system design. The 22 Domains of Community Design are used as an overlay to any subject matter worth pursuing. For example, if you want to build a solar energy device, which would be under the 'Energy and Power' domain, the domains suggest there are far reaching influences across other domains of community design and ongoing development (i.e. a fractal nature to them) that influence our creative process.