[OSGeo-Discuss] Possible CS-W Portal Opportunity

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Mon Feb 3 13:47:37 PST 2014


Hi Paul,
On OSGeo-Live, we also package pycsw, which might also be worth evaluating:
http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/pycsw_overview.html

I'd suggest that extending an existing project is usually better long 
term than starting a new project and splitting sponsors/developers 
between two projects.

On 4/02/2014 1:48 AM, Breimyer, Paul - 0442 - MITLL wrote:
>
> My name is Paul Breimyer and I work for MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a 
> government research lab (FFRDC).  We are building what is effectively 
> a secure CS-W portal interface for the Department of Homeland Security 
> (DHS).  I'm writing to see if OSGeo might be interested in the portal 
> if it were open sourced appropriately.  As part of this work we 
> reviewed GeoNetwork: the backend services were well implemented, but 
> we found the portal to be lacking capabilities that were necessary (at 
> least for our use cases).  There may be an opportunity to enhance the 
> GeoNetwork portal to facilitate broader adoption of the CS-W 
>  standard.  Please let me know if there's interest to learn more.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
> --------------------------------------------------
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> Paul Breimyer, Ph.D.
>
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>
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