[OWSLib-users] Update metadata privileges with OWSlib

[Tom Kralidis]

Hi Sophie:

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Sophie Mollard wrote:

> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:36:06 +0100
> From: Sophie Mollard <sophie.mollard at mshe.univ-fcomte.fr>
> To: "owslib-users at lists.osgeo.org" <owslib-users at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [OWSLib-users]  Update metadata privileges with OWSlib
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm working with Geonetwork 3 and I'm using CSW protocol to insert metadata via OWSlib and an administrator user.
> In GeoNetwork admin console, I checked "Inserted metadata is public". It works : everybody can read the metadata but I need to go further. I would like that everybody can also see data linked to metadata in the viewer and download the metadata (even anonymous). How
> can I do that ?
> Can I update metadata privileges with OWSlib ? Or, can I change default privileges somewhere into Geonetwork ? Have you another idea ?
>

CSW by nature does not address permissions or access control, and as a result
privileges are left to the implementation and out of scope for OWSLib.

Your best bet is to implement additional functionality against the GeoNetwork
API to set permissions after a given CSW-T Insert.

Hope this helps.

..Tom

> Thank you in advance,
> 
> --
> Sophie MOLLARD