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

[Paolo Cavallini]

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Il 01/03/2013 22:10, pcreso at pcreso.com ha scritto:

> 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.

Agreed. Much room for cooperation on this subject.

> 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.

Cool. I think we can work jointly on this. We also have some funding for this. Where
can we find the plugin?

> 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.

Yes, I'm aware of the issue. IMHO this is a consequence of QGIS huge success:
probably all available core devs are already overstretched, and full of work.
New devs are flocking in, but there is still need for more.
So any initiative to find new developers, and encouraging (financially, among other
things) newcomers is quite important at this stage.

All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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