[GeoNode-devel] Non ISO Metadata Topic Categories and Geonode Behavior

[Eduardo Castanho]

Hi!! to all

I'm trying to implement multiple Topic Categories in Geonode, so that 
the metadata is more according to ISO 19115, as was discussed in this 
year code sprint.

But I have a doubt about  the correct  behavior in the upload of 
metadata that contains Topic Categories that doesn't  belong to ISO 
CodeList.

Currently, Geonode creates a new  category  :

                     elif key == 'topic_category':
                                 value, created =
                TopicCategory.objects*.get_or_create*(
                                     identifier=value.lower(),
                                     defaults={'description': '',
                'gn_description': value})
                                 key = 'category'
                                 defaults[key] = value


@ geonode/geonode/layers/utils.py (line 442)/****/

Is this the expected behavior?
If we have multiple categories imported from metatada files,  the number 
of new categories will raise a lot (including spelling errors), can this 
be bad ?

with best regards,
Eduardo Castanho

IPMA
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Lisboa Portugal
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