[Qgis-developer] MetaSearch 0.3.0 released

[Tom Kralidis]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Alexander Bruy wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 09:54:16 +0300
> From: Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>
> To: Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>
> Cc: Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>,
>     qgis-developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] MetaSearch 0.3.0 released
> 
> Hi Tim,
>
> 2014-09-03 0:37 GMT+03:00 Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>:
>
>> Great news Tom!  Do you have any plans to reinstate the metadata editor that
>> used to be part of metasearch's predecessor's? I think it is the next gaping
>> hole in our standards support.
>

Agreed that metadata publishing is the next frontier :)

See below.

> Am I right that Metatools plugin does not works for you and you need
> something else?
> AFAIK it works fine under QGIS 2.x, so I don't understand why we need
> another editor.
>

Agreed.

I get tracebacks like below when trying to use metatools:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:/Users/TomK/.qgis2/python/plugins\metatools\metatools.py", line 316, in doView
     standard = MetaInfoStandard.tryDetermineStandard(self.metaProvider)
   File "C:/Users/TomK/.qgis2/python/plugins\metatools\standard.py", line 35, in tryDetermineStandard
     print "TryDetStd ", text, " Text"
IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor


> Moreover I'm slowly work on new improved version of this plugin. It is
> not ready yet,
> so I not announced it nor force to include in QGIS core.
>

I'll be glad to help out Alex when the above is ready and out there.

Having said this, what about the Layer properties dialog's Metadata section? There
is almost enough there for a fulsome enough metadata record.  Adding
a CSW publishing client ('Publish Metadata') would be straightforward.


> -- 
> Alexander Bruy
>