[Ottawa_users] GeoNetwork

[Regie Alam]

Thanks for the replies. They gave insight on how I
should approach learning GeoNetwork.

One more question though: is GeoNetwork similar to the
Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)?

Thanks,
Regie


--- Mike Adair <madair at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:

> I am by no means an expert on GeoNetwork but I've
> recently had the 
> opportunity to work with it and found it to be a
> solid product.
> 
> GeoNetwork is a metadata catalogue, ie. it will
> store and index 
> metadata, and typically not used to store the actual
> geo data.  It 
> supports a variety of metadata formats: FGDC,
> ISO19115/139, etc. You can 
> manually edit metadata records, import metadata
> records in XML format, 
> import metadata records from various sources (e.g.
> WMS/WFS 
> capabilities), from other instances of CSWs, etc. . 
> It supports 
> multiple users and groups (e.g. admins, editors,
> reviewers, etc.)
> 
> Mike
> 
> Regie Alam wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> >    Has anybody in the group have first hand
> experience
> > with GeoNetwork? I've looked at the site
> > (http://geonetwork-opensource.org) but couldn't
> yet
> > figure out what it is and it's capabilities. Can
> it
> > actually act like a database and store data, or
> does
> > it just point to the locations of data?
> >
> >    Also, I couldn't find any information regarding
> how
> > to prepare data to be incorporated into
> GeoNetwork.
> > The focus it seems is searching the data when
> > everything has been incorporated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Regie
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