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

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Hi Paolo,

We use Geonetwork as our metadata catalogue, in conjunction with a range of FOSS tools including Postgis, mapserver, Geoserver, QGIS, etc. 

Personally, I'd see more advantages in enhancing the CSW client capability of QGIS, so it can harvest data & specifically allow users to add catalogued OGC WMS/WCS/WFS services to the list of stored services, instead of adding them manually. If you are developing a metadata catalogue capability, I'm happy to support a client capability, any server capability is not likely to be of use for us, though it may be for those using QGIS in a server capacity in other ways. 

We have funded Sourcepole to develop a plugin which harvests a list of WxS service URLs & basic metadata from a list in a web page (http://www.niwa.co.nz/ei/feeds/report) and allows users to select layers as predefined favourites, and some other stuff... 

I'm planning to enhance this in the near future. We are currently funding an enhancement to Geonetwork to improve the harvesting facilities for metadata provided  in WxS services, and once this is complete, will be funding changes to our QGIS plugin to enable CWS harvesting from Geonetwork instead of from the above web page.

As I do have funds to provide such specific capability, if you can align your projects to meet our requirements, I'm quite happy to work with other QGIS developers to mutual benefit.


One comment on your requests for donations and funding for QGIS, I've asked a few times on this list for developers to undertake paid work to provide specific enhancements for QGIS, and have been surprised at the lack of response. 3 developers expressing interest is about the best I have received, sometimes zero. 

Cheers,

  Brent Wood


--- On Fri, 3/1/13, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:

From: Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] QGS harvesting to build a metadata catalog
To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 11:11 PM

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Il 01/03/2013 11:06, rldhont ha scritto:
> Hi Régis,
> 
> We have the same idea in 3Liz.
> We would like in a first time have a minimalist one, with for example lizmap as
> metadata proxy.
> We don't have plan yet but we would like to participate.

Hi all.
We (Faunalia) are going to do some work on this general area very soon:
* adding a method to store metadata in PostgreSQL
* improving the CSW client.
Any collaboration is more than welcome, in oder to avoid duplication of work.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
www.faunalia.eu
Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc
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