[Qgis-developer] QGS harvesting to build a metadata catalog

[Tyler Mitchell]

Hi Régis, 
I've worked on something similar, not exactly about higher level metadata, but if you want some automated way to help catalogue raster/vector data, I built this script:

https://github.com/spatialguru/NME/tree/master/nme/cat
See: gdalogr_catalogue.py

It produces XML output and recursively scans all files/folders.
Maybe it will give you some ideas :)

My hope is to also build capability in QGIS to open and view this XML file to browse the data without ever having to touch until the user is ready to preview or load it.
Just a thought anyway...

Tyler

On 2013-03-01, at 1:22 AM, Régis Haubourg wrote:

> Hi All, 
> A new need is occuring in my corp, and i would like to know if others have
> been thinking of that:
> 
> I would like to be able to build a minimalist metadata ISO 199115 catalog
> referencing QGIS maps and composers. Xml format of QGS already contains a
> lot of feature that allows starting a work. 
> 
> I see two ways:
> - a minimalistic one, generating iso metadata using existing info stored in
> QGS. This is not INSPIRE compatible, but allows me to reference maps quickly
> (an dirty)
> - a complete one, associating a xml iso file inside or along qgs file, if
> user want it. All the hard job is tio synchronise xml with qgs content and
> events. 
> 
> Is anybody already working on that ? I would be pleased to share on it. 
> I have seen that some work is done on QGIS and ISO19110 data catalogs for
> JRC , we could share some parts of developpement. 
> 
> Cheers Régis
> 
> 
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