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<div class="" id="magicdomid2"><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">The </span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">p</span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">y</span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">csw</span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml"> team announces the release of
</span><span class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">pycsw </span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">0.1.0. This is the first
release of the project towards version 1.0.0. </span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid4"><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">pycsw</span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml"> is an OGC CSW server
implementation written in Python.</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid5"><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">pycsw</span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml"> implements clause 10 (HTTP
protocol binding (Catalogue Services for the Web, CSW)) of the
OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification, version
2.0.2.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid7"><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">pycsw </span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">allows for the publishing and
discovery of geospatial metadata. Existing repositories of
geospatial metadata can be exposed via OGC:CSW 2.0.2.</span></div>
<div class="" id="magicdomid8"><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">pycsw</span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml"> is Open Source, released
under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows,
Linux, Mac OS X).</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid10"><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">Source and binary downloads: </span></div>
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class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">----------------------------</span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">------------</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid13"><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">The source code is available
at: </span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid15"><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml url"><a
href="http://pycsw.org/download.html">http://pycsw.org/download.html</a></span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid18"><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">Version 0.1.0 (2011-04-20): </span></div>
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class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">---------------------------</span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">---------</span></div>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">OGC CITE Compliant </span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">support for ISO </span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">Metadata </span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">Application Profile 1.0</span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">.0</span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml"> </span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">extensible profile
plugin architecture </span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">flexible metadata
repository connectivity </span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">federated catalogue
distributed searching </span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">Pythonic interface
to the supported databases</span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">Very lightweight
(Python + CGI)</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid29"><span
class="author-g-f1y17j97fj2y73pg">Testers and developers are
welcome.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid31"><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">The </span><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha">pycsw </span><span
class="author-g-ea0jbcqimn5dppml">developer team.</span></div>
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<div class="" id="magicdomid33"><span
class="author-g-6kjn2t1pklvk8gha url"><a
href="http://pycsw.org/">http://pycsw.org/</a></span></div>
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