<div>Pls. look perhaps also at this thread from Raj about a - yet to be defined - CSW profile <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/dclite4g/2007-October/000006.html" target="_blank">
http://lists.eogeo.org/pipermail/dclite4g/2007-October/000006.html</a> .</div>
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<div>Take also into consideration that CSW harvesting in GeoNetwork (GN) is not finished yet and a main programmer of GN wrote by end of september that OAI-PMH "outperforms CSW harvesting on all aspects.". The "state of metadata" is currently less than desirable because even OGC seems to be divided into several groups besides CSW, namely ebRIM.
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<div>This having said, I'm not against any software - GN looks good! - nor any OGC spec. (CSW could make it but what's the advantage over a WFS profile?). </div>
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<div>I'm concerned mainly about a common metadata model and then about the protocol (harvesting vs. online-query?). So let's just do what serves our needs.</div>
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<div>-- Stefan</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/10/8, Lorenzo Becchi <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:lorenzo@ominiverdi.com" target="_blank">lorenzo@ominiverdi.com</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>> Martin Spott wrote:<br>><br>><br>>> I know, this topic surfaces at least once a month - see Frank W.'s
<br>>> posting "Data migration" or David B.'s recent FOSS4G summary of open<br>>> issues "Themes and Direction from FOSS4G".<br>>><br>><br>> .... not to forget Lorenzo B.'s recent request of a "OSgeo Catalogue",
<br>><br><br>thx, Martin<br><br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://data.freemap.in/" target="_blank">data.freemap.in</a> is a good place to store metadata easily.<br><br>anyway, I still think that a CSW interface is needed more then ever
<br>because it's OGC compliant. <br>I still think we should try to use OGC standards and if they don't fit<br>our needing, give a hand to make them better.<br><br>I hope to have the time to help Telascience guys to set up a demo with
<br>GeoNetwork.<br>I would like to develop a thin CSW client for OpenLayers, it should not<br>be that difficult.<br>:-)<br><br>ciao<br>Lorenzo<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Geodata mailing list
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