[OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi all,

On 24 aug 2010, at 06:47, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> => this works well after some fixing.
>> But how do I best use the generated XML file?
> 
> Nice to hear that you found the script and got it to work!  I'd love to see what fixes you applied and would roll them into the official code. 
> 
> How you use the resulting xml brings up a good question.  How did you envision using the metadata results?  

GeoNetwork opensource can browse your local or remote (through webdav) filesystem and ingest your metadata xml files. These will then be indexed and are searchable in the GeoNetwork user interface.

> 
> My plans were to build a gui and simple query system next.  But ultimately I want a tool in my desktop GIS to allow quick browsing and loading of certain layers easily.

You can configure ArcCatalog to connect to your GeoNetwork CSW service (provided out of the box) and search the catalogue. See for details this blog entry (translated from a Dutch blog entry from ESRI:

http://www.ticheler.net/node/19

Cheers,
Jeroen

> 
> There are some hacks in there that can output sql or csv if you need something simpler.
> 
> Tyler
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