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options
architecture
centralized - the university possibly through OVCRD will setup a platform for all.
federated/distributed - each cluster/college will be responsible for hosting their own platform with a standard way of sharing metadata and data catalog.
Possible software systems:
Discussion
Geoserver http://geoserver.org/ -is an open source server for sharing geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.