[OSGeo-Discuss] pycsw Receives OGC Compliance Certification and Reference Implementation Status

[Raj Singh]

Andrea, the RI policies have changed a bit in the last few years so it's worth taking a read through that new policy document and/or contacting Luis at OGC for clarification.
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Raj


On Jan 15, at 4:33 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Wondering, what steps did you follow to have pycsw also become a reference
>> implementation?
>> I thought the RI where chosen only while developing the CITE tests for a
>> particular standard, but the CSW 2.0.2 tests
>> have been out for a while
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>> 
> 
> Thank you Andrea :)
> 
> We contacted OGC about compliance testing and we followed the documented procedures:
> http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=49237
> 
> Regarding RI, I am not aware of such time limitation during CITE test development.
> On our side what we did was ask kindly to get a review of the project and the source code in order to be considered for RI.
> I do not know what internal processes of OGC were triggered from this, but it seems we did well on our review.
> 
> Cheers,
> Angelos