<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear all,<br><br></div></div><div>Following the <a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/standalone-metadata-documents-td5192737.html#a5192740">Gavin Fleming-4's post</a> and Simone Dalmasso answer:<br><br><span>"Can Geonode be used to manage metadata <span>documents</span> that are not
associated with a geonode layer?"</span><br><br><div dir="ltr"><span>"Gavin, if the remote data are geographic data
accessible on the web than you could use the geonode services to harvest
a remote ogc backend and get the metadata as well. If the datasets are
not geospatial then maybe CKAN is the tool. On the other hand if your
aim is to publish a <span>document</span> which represents metadata than you can upload it as a <span>document</span> not linked to any resource and put the resource remote url in its metadata." (Simone Dalmasso)<br></span></div><br></div><div>Is it correct to create a metadata of a non-geographic document using iso19115 profile? <br><br>My idea is that iso19115 should be used for geographic information only. What is your opinion about this? As you can see when i upload a document into geonode it will fill some mandatory metadata fields like ReferenceSystem and geographic extent by default. (please, take a look at the following <a href="http://demo.geonode.org/catalogue/csw?outputschema=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isotc211.org%2F2005%2Fgmd&service=CSW&request=GetRecordById&version=2.0.2&elementsetname=full&id=1cfaf7ec-9f73-11e5-b82d-126a359e0439">example</a>)<br><br> <br>For this reason should i assume that geonode document section it's only for geographic information documentation?<br><br>One approach could be to customize Geonode to have two metadata profiles one for geographic information (iso19115) and other for documents (dublin core or <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat/">DCAT</a>, etc). Could this raise any issue during the harvesting process? Anyone have this same issue? Is there any other Metadata profile for documentation that i should take into consideration?<br><br></div><div>Any suggestion would be great.<br><br></div><div>Best Regards,<br><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br>Eduardo Pascoal</div></div></div></div>
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