[Mapserver-users] Metadata Server

[Christopher R. Thorne]

What you are looking for is to build a discovery portal. The fgdc offers 
the framework to build your personnel community. Along with connecting 
your community with all others. http://www.fgdc.gov/

Fgdc offers a free metadata server (Isite).

Now for MapServer holds metadata information based on the Open GIS 
Consortium WMS/WFS standards , which can be published within the FGDC 
framework.
http://www.opengis.org/
http://www.opengis.org/specs/?page=specs

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc42/wms-server-howto.html
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/doc42/wfs-server-howto.html


Chris

Joel Rivard wrote:

>Hi List,
>
>I've been looking through the archives and havn't come accross anything 
>too specific on using MapServer in order to help setup a Metadata 
>Server.  Can anybody point me in the right direction of setting up a 
>Metadata Server for MapServer.  Our intent is to allow the user to 
>search for the data by title, keyword, etc.  This would return a list 
>of files that match the search, which contains the metadata by clicking 
>on the file.  MapServer would be used to allow viewing of the files as 
>interactive maps.  
>
>Were pretty much trying to setup something like the Geography Network 
>(www.geographynetwork.com) but do not want to use ArcIMS though.
>
>Any help would be appreciated,
>
>cheers,
>
>Joel Rivard
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