[OSGeo-Discuss] help with catalog of OGC services

[John Callahan]

Thanks Jeroen for the information, especially the workshop instructions.  I
was not aware that GN could work with services in this way.  This sounds
very much like what I need (even if the full GUI application might seem like
a bit overkill for only 15 or so datasets!)  The CSW support and harvesting
capabilities (ability to be harvested) are great advantages.

>From reading the docs, it looks like a beta/prerelease version of 2.8 (or
3.0?) on Windows might be available before the end of the year.  Is that
still the current plan?  Thanks.

- John

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John Callahan, Research Scientist
Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
URL: http://www.dgs.udel.edu
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Jeroen Ticheler
<jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>wrote:

> Hi John,
> You can configure GeoNetwork to automatically create the metadata for you
> for each layer in your services (WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, SOS are all
> supported).
> The FOSS4G 2011 workshop (as well as previous ones) focussed on that aspect
> showing how to configure the map server (in this case GeoServer, but the
> same principal applies to MapServer or any other service). The more complete
> the metadata in the OGC service the better the result in the catalog.
>
> A nice thing of this process is that thumbnails and links to the service
> are all created automatically by GeoNetwork. No need for the GN editor ;-)
>
> You can find the instructions for the workshop here:
> https://eos.geocat.net/download/workshops/foss4g2011/
>
> Kind regards,
> Jeroen
>
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> Op 3 okt. 2011 om 06:23 heeft John Callahan <john.callahan at udel.edu> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> I have about 15 or so OGC services running with MapServer, mostly WMS but a
> few WFS and hopefully some WCS in the future.   I'd like to have an easy way
> for users to browse through my services.  Of course, I can manually create a
> web page listing my services but there should be something better.  A CSW
> catalog would be nice as traditional desktop GIS users can easily
> browse/search and add my services directly to their GIS.     It'd also be
> great if my services could be harvested by other catalogs.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to run a CSW-compliant app by simply adding
> existing etCapability URLs?  I know about GeoNetwork but it doesn't seem
> like I need the full GUI or multi-user editor as it's only me (plus I'd
> rather not have to manually create/maintain records for each service as I
> think I'd have to with GN.)  Does anyone know if MapServer can perform like
> a CSW, perhaps by pointing to local map files?
>
> In the end, I'm looking for a way to easily maintain a catalog of OGC
> services through integrating existing services as much as possible.  Thanks
> for any guidance.
>
> - John
>
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