[GeoNode-users] Metadata partly parsed.

[Margherita Di Leo]

Tom,

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dears,
> >
> > we would like to deploy our data using GeoNode. However, at present I am
> > finding multiple issues that i'm not sure I'm able to overcome. I'd
> probably
> > better start multiple thread on each issues. I depend upon your kind
> help.
> > First issue that I found is that, our metadata, even though 100% INSPIRE
> > compliant, seem not to be parsed correctly by GeoNode. The only info
> that I
> > can visualize after uploading are title, publication date, category and
> > owner. In the section Abstract appears "No abstract provided", but the
> > abstract was provided. You can download a sample metadata for testing
> here .
> >
>
> GeoNode uses the OWSLib package to parse the ISO metadata.  Looking deeper
> at your metadata sample, your abstract is cast as:
>
> <gmd:abstract>
>   <gmx:Anchor ...>
> ...
> </gmd:abstract>
>
> OWSLib looks for the following construct:
>
> <gmd:abstract>
>   <gco:CharacterString>
> ...
> </gmd:abstract>
>
> so in your case gmx:Anchor is not being picked up as an abstract.
>
> This is the first time (INSPIRE-based and elsewhere) that I've seen this
> design pattern.  Is it possible to update your metadata as a workaround?
> At
> the same time it would be worth to investigate in OWSLib and possibly apply
> a issue/patch/workaround.
>

Thank you for the pointers. Anchor should (and in some catalogues does)
allow the nice property to have a clickable link in place of the chunk of
text (the abstract in this case) that lands to a html page. We have used
this feature because we want to be able to include a long text in the
abstract and lineage, and new lines are not recognised in xml, resulting in
a blob of text which is barely readable. I know this is not much used,
partly because not known and also because usually metadata editors normally
do not include pro features ;-) but we find it really useful. I think it is
worth to investigate at the level of OWSLib if a patch could be applied.

Thank you again,
Best,

>
> ..Tom
>
> > Thank you in advance
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Margherita Di Leo
>



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Margherita Di Leo
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