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

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

I think it would be relatively easy to provide the functionality of 
exporting metadata from QGIS to a pycsw server in the form of a 
publishing plugin, similar to the one creating map files for MapServer.
Thoughts?

Angelos

On 03/02/2013 11:20 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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> Il 01/03/2013 22:10, pcreso at pcreso.com ha scritto:
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>> 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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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos