[Live-demo] pycsw in OSGeo Live.
Tom Kralidis
tomkralidis at hotmail.com
Sun Jan 29 18:46:48 EST 2012
Cameron: sorry, I somehow missed this email, while answering subsequent emails on this thread.
Timely question: see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28754170 for more info/updates. We're confident that pycsw can serve as a useful CSW (with transactions) server for formal metadata discovery.
..Tom
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:32:32 +1100
From: cameron.shorter at gmail.com
To: gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
CC: live-demo at lists.osgeo.org; tomkralidis at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] pycsw in OSGeo Live.
Angelos, Tom,
In preparing for osgeolive 5.0, I suggested that pycsw was probably
not mature enough to be included in OSGeo-Live.
I'm interested to understand how the project has matured since then.
If the project is ready, we will need to quickly review and update
the documentation so it can be translated.
On 27/04/11 18:34, Cameron Shorter wrote:
Angelos,
It is great to see interest from pycsw in joining the OSGeo-Live
stable of quality applications.
My initial feeling is that it would be great to include pywcs in a
future release of OSGeo-Live, but as pywcs is still only at a 0.1
release, without wide uptake yet, it is premature to include pywcs
into the next OSGeo-Live release.
I believe that we have developed a reputation that if an
application has been deployed on OSGeo-Live, then someone can
expect that it has been deployed in many different locations, and
tested by many different organisations. Hence, users can be
confident that they will be unlikely to uncover any bugs by
running standard operations.
Feel free to suggest that I have mis-read the project, or argue
otherwise.
One option that we could potentially consider is including a pywcs
install script on the DVD, but not call the install script from
our main.sh install script. This would mean that pywcs would not
be installed on OSGeo-Live, but it would be easy to run the pywcs
install script and get pywcs installed if required by an expert.
Would this be of interest?
On 26/04/2011 9:06 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
Hi all,
On behalf of the pycsw
development team, I would like to ask if we can include our
project in OSGeoLive 5.0.
I am providing requested
answers below:
Please describe
your application.
What is its
name?
pycsw
What is the
home page URL?
http://pycsw.org/
Which OSI
approved Open Source Licence is used?
MIT
What does the
application do and how does it add value to the
GeoSpatial stack of software?
pycsw is an OGC CSW server
implementation written in Python.
pycsw implements clause 10
(HTTP protocol binding (Catalogue Services for the Web,
CSW)) of the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation
Specification, version 2.0.2.
We believe that pycsw
would be a good addition for the LiveDVD, since it provides
a lightweight, standalone alternative to current
Java-based, CSW server implementations.
Stability is
very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds
a bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation
of all other OSGeo-Live applications as well. Do you
have a bug free, stable release, which has been rolled
out to production in a number of locations? Please
discuss the level of testing that your project has gone
through, the size of the community that uses the
application, and how long the project has had mature
code.
Currently pycsw is in beta
stage, but the latest 0.1.0 release is considered pretty
stable.
As a standalone CSW server
implementation, pycsw passes 100% the OGC Cite tests for
this release. CITE tests are run
daily. Additional tests are
also provided with the source code which are tested before
release. This
latest release is well tested, but not currently deployed to a production environment. Demo web pages can be
found here: http://pycsw.org/demos.html.
The pycsw community
is relatively new, and there is growing interest given the
release of 0.1.0. pycsw integrates with
other foss4g packages (i.e. OWSLib), and is already being
integrated in various interoperability demonstrations (CSW
<-> WPS integration with the ZOO project).
OSGeo-Live is
targeted at applications that people can use rather
than libraries. Does the application have a user
interface (possibly a command line interface) that a
user can interact with?
pycsw is a web service
(implementation of OGC CSW standard). Currently it does not
include client code (internally uses OWSLib in cases needed). There
are some tester web pages (http://pycsw.org/demos.html) that are also included
in a clean setup.
We give
preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects
which are presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your
project is involved in OSGeo Incubation, or has been
selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then please mention
it.
We are a new project, and
didn't have the chance yet to apply for OSGeo Incubation or
get involved in a FOSS4G conference, but we hope to do so in
the future :)
With around 50
applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core packagers
do not have the time to liaise with every single project
email list for each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a
volunteer (or two) to take responsibility for liaising
between OSGeo-Live and the project's communities. This
volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
scripts and English documentation are updated by someone
for each OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the
installed application and Quickstart documentation
works as expected on release candidate releases of
OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison
person.
I would be happy to act in
the requested role, as I am already involved in the
OSGeoLive project.
OSGeo-Live is
Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
Install from
UbuntuGIS or DebianGIS
Install .deb
files from a PPA
Write a
custom install script
Can you please
discuss how your application will be installed.
At this moment, we have
rpm packages for openSUSE and plan to create deb packages
for Ubuntu. Until then, we can create an installation script
(http://pycsw.org/installation.html )
We include
Windows and Mac installers for some applications. Would
you be wishing to include Windows and/or Mac installers?
Not at this point. Perhaps
in the future releases
OSGeo-Live is
memory and disk constrained. Can the application run in
512 Meg of RAM?
Yes, pycsw can easily run
even in 256 Meg of RAM under Apache Web Server
How much disk
space will be required to install the application and a
suitable example application?
pycsw by itself only
occupies ~2Mb of disk space. Its dependencies though (lxml,
sqlalchemy, shapely), can occupy a bit more disk space if
not already included in OSGeoLive already.
We aim to
reduce disk space by having all applications make use
of a common dataset. We encourage applications to make
use of the example datasets already installed:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Example_Datasets If another dataset
would be more appropriate, please discuss here. Is it
appropriate, to remove existing demo datasets which may
already be included in the standard release.
pycsw exposes metadata,
and as such requires sample XML documents (Dublin Core and
ISO 19139:2007). Since the demo datasets
for pycsw are plain xml metadata files in sqlite database
files, we can include existing metadata xml files (perhaps
Geonetwork demo data?). The demo metadata we provide are ~20
xml files (CITE data from OGC and some xml files created
with gimed editor)
Best regards,
Angelos
--
Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open Source
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