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1. Role Figure 2 28 Metadata properties 28 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Next section will guide you through the process of metadata creation using the online editor 2 4 1 Creating a New Record using the web based Metadata Editor 1 In the home page click on the Administration Tab 2 Select New Metadata from the List of the admin page 3 Select the metadata standard Template if possible using the preferred ones GeoNetwork open source comes by default with support for three metadata standards ISO19139 FGDC and Dublin core For the ISO standard two templates have been developed one for vector and one for raster data Both contain a relevant set of elements to describe the respective types of data More tem plates can be developed online 4 Select the Group the metadata will belong to These are the groups authorized to add metadata to by your administrator 5 Click on Create 2 4 2 The steps in more details 1 Enter your username and password and click on the login button The system will identify you and assign the correct privileges to work with English Username O Password MAA Figure 2 29 Login 2 Open the Administration page by clicking the Administration button in the banner and then click on the New metadata link GeoNetwork v2 1 Geographic data sharing for everyone Administration Contact us Links About Help English Frangai
2. Date Pele Date type i Een LDLo e Presentation mapDigital form Abstract start with use this one Purpose Status Figure 2 19 Identification information 22 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Point of contact identification of and means of communication with person s and organizations s associated with the resourcels Point of contact individual O name name Position name Facsimile gm area Postal code E O Electronic mail Tid address mS Role originator Maintenance and update frequency Figure 2 20 Point of Contact 2 3 Viewing and Analysing the Data 23 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Descriptive keywords ya provides category keywords their type and reference source Descriptive keywords Keyword Type Access copyright constraints s constraints oher Ooo Ed constraints Spatial representation type Figure 2 21 Descriptive keywords Equivalent scale level of detail expressed as the scale of a comparable hardcopy map ar chart canditianal Equivalent scale Denominator li oL Language English E Character set utfa a Topic category code Figure 2 22 Scale and other data properties 24 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Finally the temporal and spatial extent are also de
3. Localization i Source language English v Enti Case studies best practices maps datasets interactiveResources applications proceedings photo audioVideo directories otherResources Target languag Etude de cas meilleurs pratiques Figure 3 42 The Localization form 3 11 Import export tools 3 11 1 Introduction Using GAST you can import and export metadata at will It allows you to 1 Create a backup of the entire metadata set Each metadata has its own file including maps and other data files Once you have the backup you can decide to import all or only some of them 2 Move your metadata from one GeoNetwork catalogue to another This can be done to mirror your metadata or to upgrade an old installation In the last case you export your metadata from your old installation and then re import them into the new one 3 11 Import export tools 109 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 3 Fill the system with test data Using the skip UUID option you can re import the same metadata over and over again This is useful for example if you want to perform stress tests Metadata are exported in the MEF format Warning Ownership Please consider that the MEF format version 1 0 does not take into account user and group ownership When exporting metadata you loose this information When importing metadata the new owner becomes the user that is performing the import while the group o
4. text input language selection list language declared on the other language section are listed here By default the selected language is the GUI language if language is defined in the metadata Identiti sten inte Nationale Bedeutung historischer Verlauf 2008 12 02T10 02 24 clear German E French revision z Ent o me sle bedeutung Mistarische Ver elusvege sind ven natenaler fermen 7 vena un Optionnaly Google translation service could be used Translation could be suggested to the editor using the small icon right to the language selector The translation convert the default metadata character string in the current selected language In view mode according to GUI language if GUI language is available in the metadata the element is displayed in this language else the element is displayed in metadata default language This behaviour is also applied to dublin core output for CSW services 2 6 Uploading a New Record using the XML Metadata Insert Tool A more advanced procedure to upload a new metadata record in the GeoNetwork system is using an XML document This procedure is particularly useful for users who already have metadata in XML format for instance created by some GIS application To this regard it has to be noted that the metadata must be in one of the standards used by GeoNetwork 18019115 FGDC and Dublin Core To start the metadata uploading process through the XML Metadata Insert tool y
5. GeoNetwork is able to harvest from the following sources for more details see below 1 Another GeoNetwork node version 2 1 or above An old GeoNetwork 2 0 node A WebDAV server An OAI PMH server An OGC service using its GetCapabilities document These include WMS WES WPS and WCS services 2 3 4 A CSW 2 0 1 or 2 0 2 catalogue server 5 6 7 An ArcSDE server 3 5 2 Mechanism overview The harvesting mechanism is based on the concept of a universally unique identifier UUID This is a special id because it is not only unique locally to the node that generated it but it is unique across all the world It is a combination of the network interface s MAC address the current date time and a random number Every time you create a new metadata in GeoNetwork a new UUID is generated and assigned to it Another important concept behind the harvesting is the last change date Every time you change a metadata its last change date is updated Just storing this parameter and comparing it with a new one allows any system to find out if the metadata has been modified since last update These two concepts allow GeoNetwork to fetch a remote metadata check if it has been updated and remove it locally if it has been removed remotely Furthermore thanks to UUIDs a hierarchy of har vesting nodes can be built where B harvests from C and A harvests from B Even loops can be created because harvested metadata cannot be modified 3
6. OPNS GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 GeoNetwork Contents Preface 3 1 1 About this Project s eek ng o Sk ee ee e dat BAR c 3 1 2 License Information ox ile rue x eee pee A ee eae dem Pus Dak oe 3 1 3 Author Information s sex 6 Ros Re eet Sa aia ea Be OR R 4 Quick Start Guide 5 2 1 Geographic Information Management forall len 5 2 2 Getting Started doe vam Bad oe ae a Bele ete a eo a See 8 2 39 Viewing and Analysing the Data s o lt maie m a a RUE EG RR momo o 20 2 4 Adding new Data and Information ees 27 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map e ea si e 34 2 6 Uploading a New Record using the XML Metadata Insert Tool 49 2 7 Metadata in Spatial Data Management ee 50 2 8 Installing the software lt ss cosd e l ue eoo RR RE gom s RR Fn y 54 Administration 61 3 Basic cOnieuration 4 sse gos rk Rer cer ER at Je Rte cete ep d eX ih Ow 61 3 2 Userand Group Administration sss a e e e os 67 3 3 OGCCSWServerconfiguration o s os esos doe eoe 9 ts 72 3 4 Import facilities iso oom bo Red ok aa a ded 74 35 Harvesting sa dopatu eeg a de 8 x AS hae eed bs Edd mud Uode SUR ed dos 79 36 Metadataownershtp oso 499 046 mon Reed ea bad xou dm M aoe a 96 3 7 Templates uoa Ro moe a WO UR Roa ba GR AAA 98 A A c r 100 3 9 GeoNetwork s Administrator Survival Tool GAST llle 105 3 10 LocalizalloB io dr e ea a Re ed
7. hours minutes One run only HARVESTED CONTENT Validate 7 PRIVILEGES Groups Guest Group View Interactive map Featured All M Q O Remove Sample group V M M Remove CATEGORIES Applications Audio Video Case studies best practices Datasets Directories Interactive resources Maps amp graphics Other information resources v Figure 3 28 Adding an ArcSDE harvesting node 3 5 Harvesting 95 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Password Password of the ArcSDE user Database name ArcSDE instance name tipically esri sde Options Please see WebDAV harvesting Privileges Please see WebDAV harvesting Category for service Metadata for the harvested service is linked to the category selected for the service usually interactive resources Category for datasets For each dataset the category for datasets is linked to each metadata for datasets 3 6 Metadata ownership 3 6 1 Introduction Starting from release 2 1 0 GeoNetwork has a new metadata access policy The old edit and admin privileges have been removed and the concept of reviewer has been introduced The purpose of this new profile is to control when a metadata can be published outside or not In previous releases all users belonging to a group with edit privileges could edit the same metadata Now a metadata is only visible to its creator to a reviewer which has access to the group owner and to an administ
8. 3 10 Localization 3 10 1 Localization of dynamic user interface elements The user interface of GeoNetwork can be localized into several languages through XML language files Beside static text there is also more dynamic text that can be added and changed interactively This text is stored in the database and is translated using the Localization form that is part of the administrative functions ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Metadata insert Batch Import Search for Unused Transfer ownership Template Sort Templates Add templates Personal info Change password Change user information Administration User management Group management Category management Manage thesauri Harvesting management System configuration Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n CSW ISO Profile test Sample metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer metadata ownership to another user Sort your templates Add default templates iso19139 119 Jis019110 dublin core _ fgdc std Jall Add templates Allow current user to change password Allow current user to change user information Add modify delete and show users Add modify delete and show groups Add modify delete and show categories Add modify delete and show thesauri Add mod
9. Metadata Type Metadata y Import actions yo action on import O Overwrite metadata with same UUID Generate UUID for inserted metadata Validate O Figure 3 15 The XML file import options 3 4 Import facilities 75 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 set Category option You can specify one category to associate to your metadata in order to simplify the search MEF file import Insert mode File Upload Copy Paste File type 2 Single File XML SLD WMC 9 MEF file Metadata Browse Import actions yo action on import J Overwrite metadata with same UUID Generate UUID for inserted metadata Figure 3 16 The MEF file import options As presented before only actions options could be selected during a MEF import XML metadata insert Choosing the radio button Copy Paste you could perform an XML insert directly copy pasting your metadata record Please refer to XML import for options you could use 3 4 2 Batch import The batch import facility allows you to import a set of metadata into the system all at once In order to use this facility you have to be logged in as an administrator After the login step go to the administration page and select the batch import s link Clicking the link will open the batch import page You have to specify a set of parameters to make the import working They are Directory This is the full path on the server s file system of the directory to scan G
10. Note that if this information is provided a reference system identifier is not mandatory Reference system info description of the spatial and temporal reference systems used in the dataset Reference system info Figure 2 26 Reference system Data Quality Section The Data Quality section provides a general assessment of the quality of the data It describes the different hierarchical levels of data quality namely a dataset series dataset features attributes etc This section also contains information about sources of the input data and a general explanation of the production processes lineage used for creating the data Metadata Information Section This section contains information about the metadata itself the Universally Unique Identifier UUID assigned to the record this is the File identifier language and characterset used date of last edit 26 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Data quality info provides overall assessment of quality of a resource s Data quality info Hierarchy level Statement x Figure 2 27 Data quality Date stamp and the metadata standard and version name of the record It also contains information on the metadata author responsible for the metadata record this person can also be a point of contact for the resource described Information on the Metadata author is mandatory 2 4 Adding new Data and Info
11. change the user running the process or b change ownership of the directory using the chown command chown R tomcat tomcat lt install directory gt data 124 Chapter 7 Frequently Asked Questions CHAPTER 8 Glossary ebRIM Enterprise Business Registry Information Model CSW Catalog Service for the Web The OGC Catalog Service defines common interfaces to discover browse and query metadata about data services and other potential resources ISO International Standards Organisation is an international standard setting body composed of repre sentatives from various national standards organizations http www iso org ISO TC211 ISO TC 211 is a standard technical committee formed within ISO tasked with covering the areas of digital geographic information such as used by geographic information systems and geomatics It is responsible for preparation of a series of International Standards and Technical Specifications numbered in the range starting at 19101 GeoNetwork GeoNetwork opensource is a standards based Free and Open Source catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources through the web http geonetwork opensource org GPL The GNU General Public License is a free copyleft license for software and other kinds of works GeoNetwork opensource is released under the GPL 2 license http www gnu org licenses old licenses gpl 2 0 html Creative Commons GeoNetwork documentation is released under the Creati
12. of element gco Integer is not valid Element gco Integer with parent element gmd numberOfDimensions cvc enumeration valid Value is not facet valid with respect to enumeration center lowerLeft lowerRight upperRight upperLeft It must be a value from the enumeration Element gmd MD PixelOnentationCode with parent element gmd pointInPixel 6 cvc type 3 1 3 The value of element gmd MD PixelOrnientationCode is not valid Element gmd MD_PixelOnentationCode with parent element gmd pointInPixel cvc datatype valid 1 2 1 is not a valid value for double Element gco Real with parent element gmd minValue cvctype 3 1 3 The value of element gco Reaf is not valid Element gco Real with parent eleme ge cvc datatype valid 1 2 1 is not V pape Element gco Real with parent elemeL 6 cvc type 3 1 3 The value of element gco Real is not valid Element gco Real with parent element gmd density Compliance to metadata recommandations Schematron INSPIRE implementing rules 16 errors v INSPIRE Title is mandatory 0 INSPIRE Abstract is mandatory INSPIRE ABSTRACT IS MANDATORY 30 Digital map Example Dataset contains large scale 1 1 000 topography which c whole country 4 v INSPIRE Resource type is mandatory Title y ame by which your resource is known Date 007 10 19T17 53 00 Fear Date type i Publication ERE Prese
13. xlink href and according to ISO CSW profil srv coupledResource srv SV CoupledResource srv operationName srv operationName lt srv identifier gt lt srv identifier gt lt gco ScopedName gt lt gco ScopedName gt lt srv SV_CoupledResource gt srv coupledResource Only relation between records in the same catalogue are handle Use of XLink attributes are not sup ported to create relation between datasets and services Feature catalogue relation Feature catalogues are records stored in ISO 19110 standard Relation between the 2 records are created using the link feature catalogue menu 2 5 7 Compute bounding box from keywords Editor can add extent information based on keyword analysis For each keywords Search for the keyword in thesaurus If keyword in the thesaurus has an extent Add an extent with a description and a bounding box to the metadata record The process could be run in 2 modes Add Keep existing extent elements and add the new one at the end Editor could clean the section after processing Replace Remove all extent having only a bounding box temporal vertical and bounding polygon are not removed and add the new one at the end 44 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Editor need to select keyword from a thesaurus with spatial information The name is added to the extent description field Division of the Food an
14. 21 The harvesting main page The bottom side of the page contains two rows of buttons The first row contains buttons that can operate on a set of nodes You can select the nodes using the check box on the first column and then press the proper button When the button finishes its action the check boxes are cleared Here is the meaning of each button 3 5 Harvesting 83 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 1 Activate When a new harvesting node is created it s status is inactive Use this button to make it active and thus to start harvesting from the remote node 2 Deactivate Stops harvesting from a node Please notice that this does not mean that a currently running harvesting will be stopped but it means that this node will be ignored during future har vesting 3 Run This button simply tells the harvesting engine to start harvesting immediately This is useful for testing during the harvesting setup 4 Remove Remove all currently selected nodes A dialogue will ask the user to confirm the action The second row contains general purpose buttons Here is the meaning of each button 1 Back Simply returns to the main administration page 2 Add This button allows to create new harvesting nodes 3 Refresh Refreshes the current list of nodes querying the server This can be useful to see if the harvesting list has been altered by someone else or if any harvesting process started Icon Sta Description tus o In T
15. 5 3 Harvesting life cycle When a harvesting node is set there is no harvested metadata During the first run all remote match ing metadata are retrieved and stored locally After the first run only changed metadata are retrieved Harvested metadata are not editable for the following reasons 1 The harvesting is periodic so any local change to harvested metadata will be lost during the next run 2 The change date is used to keep track of changes so if it gets changed outside the originator site the harvesting mechanism is compromised Beside the metadata itself this implies that users cannot change all other metadata properties like categories privileges etc 80 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 The harvesting process goes on until one of the following situations arises 1 An administrator stops deactivates the node 2 An exception arises In this case the node is automatically stopped When a harvesting node is removed all harvest metadata are removed too 3 5 4 Multiple harvesting and hierarchies Catalogues that provide UUIDs for metadata for example GeoNetwork and a CSW server can be harvested several times without having to take care about metadata overlap This allows the possibility to perform a thematic search and a metadata belonging to multiple searches is harvested only once and not duplicated This mechanism allows the GeoNetwork harvesting type to be combined with o
16. 6 4 IMPORT XML FORMATTED METADATA Metadata lt xml versions 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt gmd MD Metadata mlns gmd http www isotc211 0rg 2005 gmd xmlns xsiz http www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema instance xmins gml http www opengis net gml xmlns gts http w w w isotc211 0rg 2005 qgts xmins gcoz http www isotc211 org 2005 gco gmd fileIldentifier gco CharacterString gco CharacterString lt gmd fileldentifier gt lt gmd language gt lt gco CharacterString gt eng lt faco CharacterString gt lt gmd MD_CharactersetCode codeListValue utfs codeList fresourcesfcodelist xmiMD_CharacterSetCode gt gmd characterSet gmd contact lt gmd Cl_ResponsibleParty gt gmdad individualName lt gco Characterstring Type Metadata y StyleSheet nne x Destination schema 5519139 y Validate F Group Sample group x Category Maps amp graphics Back Insert Figure 2 50 XML metadata import 2 52 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 7 3 Why do we need Standardised Metadata Standardised metadata support users in effectively and efficiently accessing data by using a common set of terminology and metadata elements that allow for a quick means of data discovery and retrieval from metadata clearinghouses The metadata based on standards ensure information consistency and quality and avoid that important parts of data knowledge
17. Advanced EOptions Figure 2 3 Interactive Area Of Interest map Reset Advanced HOptions Figure 2 4 The Search button 10 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Applications Audio Video Case studies best practices Conference proceedings Datasets Directories Interactive resources Maps amp graphics Other information resources Photo Figure 2 5 Search by Category 2 2 3 Advanced Search The advanced search option works similarly to the default search However you can be more specific in your search criteria as it offers different elements to look for data each of them focusing one of the following aspects What Where When To perform an advanced search from the home page click Advanced just below the search bottom In the WHAT section the elements are all related to the data content Through them in addition to searching only free keywords in the entire metadata content you can also search directly in the title or abstract fields and add more keywords to customise your search further You can also specify the level of accuracy you wish to reach in performing your search To search by Title Abstract Free Text or Keyword s type any text into the respective field You can enter information in one or multiple field s If you do not want to search by a given field simply leave it blank You can choose the accuracy of your search in terms of spe
18. Back button 98 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Metadata insert Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Batch Import Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for Unused Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer ownership Transfer metadata ownership to another user Sort Templates Sort your templates Add templates Add default templates Jiso19139 119 7is019110 O dublin core O fgdc std Jal Add templates Personal info Change password Allow current user to change password Change user information Allow current user to change user information Administration User management Add modify delete and show users Group management Add modify delete and show groups Category management Add modify delete and show categories Manage thesauri Add modify delete and show thesauri Harvesting m n Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks System confiquration Allows to change some system s parameters Localization Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index i Test i18n This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI CSW ISO Profile test Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Sample metadata Add sample metadata METADATA CREA
19. E O Electronic mail Tid address mS Role originator Maintenance and update frequency Figure 2 36 Point of Contact 2 4 Adding new Data and Information 33 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 need to add multiple fields can arise if the content of your dataset has some text written in two different languages Advanced view XML view be avail oe c Identification Se awed info z Title Date type Thumbr English pU utf8 Topic category code Figure 2 37 Describing multilingual data 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map As we mentioned in the introduction to this guide GNos provides tools to describe any type of geo graphic data verctor layers raster tables map services etc as well as general document like reports projects papers etc For the purpose of this Quick Start Guide an example of required and useful metadata elements to properly describe a thematic map will be provided hereafter You should gather as much information as possible to identify and understand the map s resource and characteristics you want to describe Use the default view to start If necessary you can always switch to advanced view or come back later and edit the record with the additonal information collected 2 5 1 Entering Metadata For Your Map Please follow these steps to enter your map s metadata Note that we will only go through the
20. The node s port usually 80 or 8080 If the node is hidden you have to enter the port on the public firewall or web server Intranet A common need for an organisation is to discriminate between internal anonymous users users that access the node from within the organisation and external ones users from the Internet Node s administrators can specify different privileges for internal and external anonymous users and in order to do so they have to specify the parameters of the internal network Network The internal network s address in IP form Netmask The network s mask 62 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION SITE Name Organization SERVER Host somehost org Port INTRANET Network 127 0 0 1 Netmask METADATA SEARCH RESULTS Maximum selected records 1000 LUCENE INDEX OPTIMIZER Enable E E Q ao rr o hour of day minute eg 23 15 Will run again every 239 50 SERVER Enable M port OAI PROVIDER Datesearch ResumptionToken Timeout XLINK RESOLVER Enable O DATA FOR DOWNLOAD SERVICE 9 Use GeoNetwork simple file download service resources get Q Use GeoNetwork disclaimer and constraints service file disclaimer Q Use metadata linkage as is no changes to linkage CSW ISO PROFILE Enable Mv Contact Title post C OOOO Fees Access Constraints 1 Basi amp eefiffguration 63 is public CLICKABLE HYPERLINKS GeoNetwork User Manual
21. Tool and is a standalone application whose purpose is to simplify some low level tasks like change of the servlet configuration of the JDBC account setup the database and so on Most of the GAST s facilities work only for the GeoNetwork s installation where GAST is in This implies that if you are using a servlet container other than Jetty like Tomcat you will not be able to change some options like the servlet s name Other facilities work for any servlet container but you have to specify the GeoNetwork s URL into the GAST s configuration dialogue 3 9 2 Starting GAST GAST belongs to the core components so it is installed by default On Windows computers simply select the Start GAST option under the GeoNetwork opensource pro gram group under Start Programs GeoNetwork opensource 3 9 GeoNetwork s Administrator Survival Tool GAST 105 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Other options to start GAST are either to use a Java command from a terminal window or just click its jar s icon To issue the Java command you have to 1 change directory to the GeoNetwork installation folder 2 issue the command java jar gast gast jar GAST will be in current system language if any translation is available If you want to force GAST GUI language you could start GAST using the Duser language option e g gast sh Duser language fr or java Duser language fr jar gast gast jar You can also try to simply open the GeoNetwork
22. and processes geology minerals sciences dealing with the composition structure and origin of the earth s rocks tisks of earthquakes volcanic activity landslides gravi 118 Chapter 5 ISO Topic Categories GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Human Health and Health health services human ecology and Disease safety information soils permafrost hydrogeology erosion disease and illness factors affecting health hygiene substance abuse mental and physical health health services Malnutrition Wasting Stunting Underweight Food Deficit Crop Disease Livestock Disease AN A 0 3 Imagery Base Maps Farth Cover Inland Waters Intelligence Military Location Planning Ca Base maps Inland Water Resources and Characteristics Inland water features drainage systems and their characteristics Military bases structures activities Geodetic Networks Positional information and services and Control Points Ocean and Estuarine Resources and Characteristics excluding inland waters Features and characteristics of salt water bodies Cadastral and Legal Land Descriptions Information used for appropriate actions for future use of the land Society and Cultural and Demographic Information Characteristics of society and cultures Facilities Man made construction Buildings and Structures Transportation Means and aids for conveying persons and or goods Networks and Mo
23. are shown below and have the following meaning Site This contains the connection information Name This is a short description of the node It will be shown in the harvesting main page URL The remote URL from which metadata will be harvested Each file found that ends with xml will indicate a metadata and will be retrieved converted into XML and imported Icon Just an icon to assign to harvested metadata The icon will be used when showing search results Use account Account credentials for a basic HTTP authentication towards the remote URL Options General harvesting options Every This is the harvesting period The smallest value is 1 minute while the greatest value is 100 days One run only If this option is checked the harvesting will do only one run after which it will become inactive Validate If checked the metadata will be validate during import If the validation does not pass the metadata will be skipped Recurse When the harvesting engine will find folders it will recursively descend into them Privileges Here it is possible to assign privileges to imported metadata Groups Groups area lists all available groups in GeoNetwork Once one or more group has been selected it can be added through the Add button each group can be added only once For each added group a row of privileges is created at the bottom of the list to allow privilege selection Remov
24. are lost 2 7 4 Geographic Information Metadata Standard Geographic data which can be defined as any data with a geographic component is often produced by one individual or organisation and may address the needs of various users including information system analysts programme planners developers of geographic information or policy makers Proper standard documentation on geographic data enable different users to better evaluate the appropriateness of data to be used for data production storage update The metadata standards supported by GeoNetwork opensource are the ISO 19115 2003 approved by the international community in April 2003 as a tool to define metadata in the field of geographic infor mation and the FGDC the metadata standard adopted in the United States by the Federal Geographic Data Committee In addition GeoNetwork opensource supports also the international standard Dublin Core for the description of general documents This ISO Standard precisely defines how geographic information and related services should be de scribed providing mandatory and conditional metadata sections metadata entities and metadata ele ments This standard applies to data series independent datasets individual geographic features and feature properties Despite ISO 19115 2003 was designed for digital data its principles can be extended to many other forms of geographic data such as maps charts and textual documents as well as non geograph
25. are transferred to the target group The target group drop down is filled with all groups visible to the logged user typically an administrator or a user administrator By default the Source group is selected in the target dropdown Privileges to groups All and Intranet are not transferable 3 Target editor Once a Target group is selected this drop down is filled with all editors that belong to that Target group 4 Operation Currently only the Transfer operation is possible By selecting the Transfer operation if the Source group is different than the Target group the system performs the Transfer of Ownership shows a brief summary and removes the current row because now there are no privileges to transfer anymore 3 7 Templates The templates options allows to manage the metadata templates in the catalog In order to use these facilities you have to be logged in as an administrator After the login step go to the administration page 3 7 1 Sort templates This option allows to set the order of the templates avalaible when creating a new metadata In the administration panel select Sort Templates option The list of avalaible templates is shown with the current display order To change the position of a template click on it s name and drag it to move it to the new position Once the order of templates is configured click on Save button to save the changes To cancel the changes and return to the administration form click on
26. can query only the fields recognised by the CSW protocol Options General harvesting options Every This is the harvesting period The smallest value is 1 minute while the greatest value is 100 days One run only If this option is checked the harvesting will do only one run after which it will become inactive Privileges Please see WebDAV harvesting Categories Please see WebDAV harvesting Adding an OAI PMH node An OAI PMH server implements a harvesting protocol that GeoNetwork acting as a client can use to harvest metadata If you are requesting the oai dc output format GeoNetwork will convert it into its Dublin Core format Other formats can be harvested only if GeoNetwork supports them and is able to autodetect the schema from the metadata Configuration options Site All options are the same as WebDAV harvesting The only difference is that the URL parameter here points to an OAI PMH server This is the entry point that GeoNetwork will use to issue all PMH commands Search criteria This part allows you to restrict the harvesting to specific metadata subsets You can specify several searches GeoNetwork will execute them sequentially and results will be merged to avoid the harvesting of the same metadata Several searches allow you to specify different search criteria In each search you can specify the following parameters From You can provide a start date here All metadata whose last change
27. compiling a standard based metadata record are the following Title Date of Creation o Publication Abstract Language used for documenting data Topic Category Scale Maintenance and Update Frequency Metadata Author Language Used for Documenting Metadata In addition to the main mandatory fields we recommend you to fill out these optional but critical fields if information is available Purpose Keywords Presentation Form Status Spatial Representation Type Geographic Location Reference System Info Temporal Extent Data Quality Info Access and Use Constraints Point of Contact Distribution Info Online Resources You should also prepare an image of your data that is required to be displayed in search results as thumbnail 2 4 Adding new Data and Information 27 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Metadata author party responsible for th metadata information mandatory Metadata BRA tan 4 File identifier 0a38e5641 9519 492f ace1 20a155ca7b99 Language Bj English Character set utig Date stamp g007 10 24T15 07 21 Metadata standard name o ISO 19115 2003 19139 Metadata standard version o4 zMetadata author Individual name E CAER Organisation name amp DE LG Position name E Lo voice Be AAA Facsimile S AAA Delivery point 5 AA city N Administrative area n Fd Postal code E AA Country j Electronic mail address El Co
28. date is equal to or greater than this date will be harvested You cannot simply edit this field but you have to use the icon to popup a calendar and choose the date This field is optional so if you don t provide it the start date constraint is dropped Use the icon to clear the field Until Works exactly as the from parameter but adds an end constraint to the last change date The until date is included in the date range the check is less than or equal to Set An OAI PMH server classifies its metadata into hierarchical sets You can request to return metadata that belong to only one set and its subsets This narrows the search result Initially the drop down shows only a blank option that indicate no set After specifying the connection URL you can press the Retrieve Info button whose purpose is to connect to the remote node retrieve all supported sets and prefixes and fill the search drop downs After you have pressed this button you can select a remote set from the drop down Prefix Here prefix means metadata format The oai dc prefix is mandatory for any OAI PMH compliant server so this entry is always present into the prefix drop down To have 90 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 HARVESTING MANAGEMENT Name Capabilities URL http www cswserver com 8080 c Icon CSW Use account Iv Username userl Password SEARCH CRITERIA X Search criteria Free text T
29. exported metadata You can either select the Browse button to navigate through your file system to choose a better location or enter it manually in the text field 110 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 GA Galeras celiiinigtretor sun viva o Options 7 Configuration 7 Jetty amp DBMS bs Management Metadata Sync Import _ O Epon Database E setup ES Migration Old installation information Metadata export This panel lets you export your metadata data from GeoNetwork into a folder of our file system There will be one file for each metadata data in MEF format Output folder root Skip UUID Search Free text Figure 3 44 The metadata export panel Format Here you can specify the metadata s output format See the MEF specification for more Skip UUID Normally this option is not required If you select it you will loose the metadata s unique identifier UUID but you will be able to re import that metadata over and over again This is useful to fill the system with test data status Search Allows to specify free text search criteria to limit the set of exported records Export This will start the export process progress dialogue will be opened to show the export Note The result of the export will depend on the access privileges of the user If you do not authenticate you will get only public metadata Warn
30. fields that have been identified as compulsory i e those fields marked with the asterix mandatory or highly recommended Title Under the Identification Info field give your map a name There will be a default name of your data Use free text to describe your map here Date Indicate the exact date of creation publication or revision on your map Presentation Form Specify the type of presentation i e digital hard copy table etc Abstract Enter some description of the map Purpose Enter a short summary of the purposes for your map to be developed 34 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Status Specify the status of your map within the following options completed historical archive obsolete ongoing planned required under development Point of Contact Enter all mandatory information and others you have at hand for the contact of the person s associated with this resources of the map Note that some fields are only conditionally mandatory such as Organization Name if Individual Name and Position are not entered Maintenance and update frequency Specify the frequency with which you expect to make changes and additions to your map after the initial version is completed If any changes are scheduled you can leave As Needed selected from the drop down list Descriptive Keywords Enter keywords that describe your map Also specify the type of keyword you are entering i e
31. for example by another user Public host and port usage Up to now the server s host and port are used in these cases 1 During an editing session when adding data links to a metadata The host and port will be used to build download links to store inside the metadata 2 During CSW requests The GetCapabilities operation returns an XML document with HTTP links to the CSW services These links are dynamically built using the host and port values 61 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Metadata insert Batch Import Search for Unused Transfer ownership Template Sort Templates Add templates Personal info Change password Change user information Administration User management Group management Category management Manage thesauri Harvesting management System configuration Localization Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n CSW ISO Profile test Sample metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer metadata ownership to another user Sort your templates Add default templates Jis019139 119 Jiso19110 dublin core fgdc std Jall Add templates Allow current user to change password Allow current user to change user information Add modify delete and show users A
32. g Agrovoc Search and edition are made based on current user interface language i e if the interface is in English when editing metadata GeoNetwork will only search for concept in English 3 8 3 Thesaurus administration To reach the thesaurus administration page you have to be logged in as an administrator From the administration page click the link Manage thesauri The page shows a list of thesaurus that have been created or imported The upper part of the page allows user to edit add modify consult thesaurus The lower part allows upload of thesaurus in SKOS format Creation of a new thesaurus To create a new thesaurus click the sign in the category you want your thesaurus to be in Once created the thesaurus could be updated through the edit interface The meaning of each column is as follows Type The type allows to classify thesaurus according to its type First is defined the type of the thesaurus following ISO category list then the type indicates if the thesaurus is a local one or an external one Name This is the thesaurus s name provided by the administrator on creation or filename on upload When creating a thesaurus the name of the thesaurus will be the filename of the thesaurus English fren te A inisteuior Contact us 5 About Heo ances Manage thesauri Type Name Operation discipline place amp axemal regions rot Download Delete view stratum El temporal th
33. http geonetwork opensource org while the other one is dedicated to the developers http trac osgeo org geonetwork Both can be updated and maintained online by trusted members of the community They provide doc umentation bug reporting and tracking Wiki pages et cetera A small part of the community connects through Internet Relay Chat IRC on a public irc irc freenode net geonetwork chan nel But most interaction takes place on the user and the developer mailing lists During the 2006 workshop the Project Advisory Board decided to propose the GeoNetwork opensource project as an incubator project to the newly founded Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo This incubation process is currently ongoing but close to conclusions The project Websites have been moved to servers accessible under the umbrella of the OSGeo foundation Web pages have been updated to reflect the OSGeo principles and a source code review performed Source code is maintained in a publicly accessible code repository hosted at an independent service provider SourceForge net that hosts thousands of FOSS projects Developers and users have full access to all sections of the source code while trusted developers can make changes in the repository itself A special mailing list has been established to monitor changes in the code repository This so called commit mailing list delivers change reports by email to its subscribers The documentation is written in reS
34. installation folder go to the gast folder and double click on the gast jar file If you have Java installed GAST should start in a few seconds To run GAST requires Java 1 5 It will not work on Java 1 4 and it should run on Java 1 6 3 9 3 Operating modes On the left side you have a panel with the tools you can use After selecting a tool on the right side you get the tool s options panel Options wy Configuration DBMS configuration Y Jetty DBMS This panel allows you to change the DBMS you want to connect to Here you can 3 Management change only the configuration You have also to create the schema and populate o Metadata Sync the database You can do that through the database setup panel If you select the embedded database and its data files are not there for example because you just checked out from the subversion repository the save button will also create them and generate a new random account Import o Export Database B Setup 3 Migration DBMS Embedded M Old installation Port 9157 REQ Figure 3 39 GAST s main window with a tool selected Every function has an operating mode which defines the condition under which the tool can be used The tool s mode is shown with an icon on the right side of the tool s name The operating modes with their icons are summarised in the following table 106 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4
35. of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo and can be found at GeoNetwork xv OSGeo Project 1 2 License Information 1 2 1 Software The GeoNetwork opensource software is released under the GPL v2 license and can be used and modi fied free of charge 1 2 2 Documentation Documentation is released under a Creative Commons license with the following conditions You are free to Share to copy distribute and transmit and to Remix to adapt the documentation under the following conditions GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Attribution You must attribute GeoNetwork opensource documentation to GeoNetwork open source developers Share Alike If you alter transform or build upon this work you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one With the understanding that Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder Public Domain Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law that status is in no way affected by the license Other Rights In no way are any of the following rights affected by the license Your fair dealing or fair use rights or other applicable copyright exceptions and limitations The author s moral rights Rights other persons may have either in the work itself or in how the work is used such as publicity or privacy rights Notice For any reuse or distri
36. page shows a list of harvesting nodes that have been created so far On the bottom side there is a set of buttons to manage these nodes The meaning of each column is as follows 1 Select This is just a check box to select one or more nodes The selected nodes will be affected by the first row of buttons start stop run remove For example if you select 3 nodes and press the Remove button these 3 nodes will be removed 2 Name This is the node s name provided by the administrator 3 Type The node s harvesting type chosen when the node was created GeoNetwork web folder etc 4 Status This is an icon that reflects the node s current status See admin harvesting status for all different icons and status description 82 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Metadata insert Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Batch Import Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for Unused Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer ownership Transfer metadata ownership to another user Template Sort Templates Sort your templates Add templates Add default templates 7is019139 119 7iso19110 Q dublin core O fgdc std al Add templates Personal info Change password Allow current user to change password Change user information Allow current user to change user informa
37. place theme etc Remember that you can add another keyword field if you need to add different types of keywords Access Constraints Enter an access constraint here such as a copyright trademark etc to assure the protection of privacy and intellectual property User Constraints Enter a user constraint here to assure the protection of privacy and intellectual prop erty Other Constraints Enter other constraint here to assure the protection of privacy and intellectual property Note that this field is conditionally mandatory if Access and Use constraints are not entered Spatial representation type Select from the drop down list the method used to spatially represent your data The options are vector grid text table stereo model video Scale Denominator Enter the denominator for an equivalent scale of a hard copy of the map Language Select the language used within your map Topic category Specify the main ISO category ies through which your map could be classified see Annex for the complete list of ISO topic categories Temporal Extent Enter the starting and ending date of the validity period Geographic Bounding Box Enter the longitude and latitude for the map or select a region from the predefined drop down list Make sure you use degrees for the unit of the geographic coordinates as they are the basis for the geographic searches Supplemental Information Enter any other descriptive information abou
38. privileges set on a metadata record and on your role as an authenticated user you will be able to read about a resource and download or interactively browse data related to that resource Roles Users with an Editor role can create import and edit metadata records They can also upload data and configure links to interactive map services User groups Every authenticated user is assigned to a particular work group and is able to view data within that work group 2 3 Viewing and Analysing the Data Once you have completed your search you view details of a particular record by clicking on the Meta data button The metadata profiles used by GeoNetwork opensource to present and describe geographic data and general documents stored in the catalogue are based on the International Standard ISO 19115 2003 encoded according to the implementation schema 19139 2007 the FGDC and the international standard Dublin Core In this guide the SO 19139 metadata implementation will be described in details since it is also sug gested as profile for the creation of new metadata records 2 3 1 Metadata Description The metadata ISO 19139 profile used by GeoNetwork opensource to describe the geographic data and services is based on the ISO standard 19115 2003 and provides information related to the identification the maintenance and constraints the spatial and temporal extent the spatial representation and reference the quality and distribution of a geog
39. wish to search If no box is checked all content will be searched At last you can customise the number of output results per page in the Hits Per Page field Simply highlight the number of records to be displayed or leave the field set on the default number 10 Click the Search button E Restrict to 1 Options Sut by Hits per page 10 gt Output Category Figure 2 11 Other options in the Advanced search 2 2 4 Search Results The output of a search provides you a list of the metadata records that should fit your request For each record the result page shows the title an abstract and the keywords According to the privileges that have been set for each metadata a maximum of four sections can be consulted as shown below 1 Metadata The metadata section describes the dataset e g citation data owner tempo ral spatial methodological information and could contain links to other web sites that could pro vide further information about the dataset 2 Download Depending on the privileges that have been set for each record when this button is present the dataset is available and downloadable The process for retrieving data is simple and 2 2 Getting Started 15 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Any 3 Reset Ava ced Options Appicacons A ado Case studies best practices Conference proceedogs Datasets Directores Interactive resources Maps amp graphics Othe
40. xmins gtsm http www isotc211 org 2005 ots xmins gcom http www isotc211 0r9 2005 9co lt gmd fileldentifier gt gco CharacterString 85813034 3879 4cb3 8756 80465ee1cObf gco Chara icharacterSet gt lt gmd MD_CharacterSetCode codeListValue utf8 codeliste resources cod lt qmd characterSet gt lt gmd contact gt gmd CI ResponsibleParty gt gmd individualName gt lt gco CharacterString Jippe Hoogeveen lt gco CharacterStrin lt qmd individualName gt lt gmd organisationName gt lt gco CharacterString gt FAO NRCW lt gco CharacterString gt gmd organisationName gt gmd positionName gt lt gco CharacterString gt Technical Officer gco CharacterStrini gmd positionName gt gmd contactInfo gmd CI Contact gmd phone gt Figure 2 35 XML view presence of a specified data element is dependent on the value or presence of other data elements in the same section For instance the Individual name metadata element of the Point of Contact which is a conditional element of the Identification section becomes mandatory if another element of the same section Organization nameor Position name is not already defined The mandatory fields as well as those highly recommended are flagged with red asterisk The standard definition for each field can be read by passing the mouse on the element name The Default View is the preferred view as it provides a selection of the available metadata
41. 2 6 4 ADMINISTRATION New metadata Adds new metadata into geonetwork copying it from template M in Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Batch Import Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for Unused Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer ownership Transfer metadata ownership to another user Template Sort Templates Sort your templates Add templates Add default templates Jiso19139 119 2is019110 C dublin core O fgdc std Jal Add templates Personal info Change password Allow current user to change password Change user information Allow current user to change user information Administration User management Add modify delete and show users Group management Add modify delete and show groups Category management Add modify delete and show categories Manage thesauri Add modify delete and show thesauri Harvesting management Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks System configuration Allows to change some system s parameters Localization Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI CSW ISO Profile test Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Sample metadata Figure 2 48 Administration panel 3 Select the metadata schema ISO19139 that will be the final destination schema 4
42. 3 13 User administration form Organisation department FT Kind Profile Groups Government Administrator User administrator Content reviewer Editor Figure 3 14 User information form 3 2 User and Group Administration 71 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 User profiles are hierarchical and based on inheritance This means that a user with an Editor profile can create and modify new metadata records but can also use all functions a Registered user can use Rights associated with the profiles are illustrated in detail in the list below 1 Administrator Profile The Administrator has special privileges that give access to all available functions These include Full rights for creating new groups and new users Rights to change users groups profiles Full rights for creating editing deleting new old metadata Perform system administration and configuration tasks 2 User Administrator Profile The User Administrator is the administrator of his her own group with the following privileges Full rights on creating new users within the own group Rights to change users profiles within the own group Full rights on creating editing deleting new old data within the own group 3 Content Reviewer Profile The content reviewer is the only person allowed to give final clearance on the metadata publication on the Intranet and or on the Internet Rights on reviewing metadata content within the own group and autho
43. Below is a brief description for each privilege to help you identify which ones you should assign to which group s 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 45 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 E dreams Ree m Qu PEE Wax drin ters sow Default view Advanced view XML view NAME BY WHICH YOUR RESOURCE IS KNOWN Logo D Figure 2 45 The editing toolbar with Privileges button 46 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Hydrological Basins in Africa Sample re Groups Publish Download interactive Featured Editing Notify Map All Intranet Guest Figure 2 46 Privileges settings Publish Users in the specified group s are able to see the map i e if searching with matching criteria Download Users in the specified group s are able to download the map Interactive Map Users in the specified group s are able to get an interactive map The interactive map has to be created separately using a Web Map Server which is part of the GeoNetwork opensource application Featured When selected the map is placed in the Features Maps of the home page and it appears there randomly Notify Users in that work group receive notification that the map has been uploaded 2 5 9 Assigning Categories for a Map As a final step to entering metadata for a map you should assign categories for it The assigned cate gories will determine the categories the map will display under on t
44. GeoNetwork user database fields as once a user is authenticated against shibboleth their details are copied to the local GeoNetwork database 3 2 User and Group Administration GeoNetwork uses the concept of Users Groups and User Profiles A User can be part of several Groups A User also has a User Profile A User can only have one User Profile associated The combination of User Profile and Group defines what tasks the User can perform on the system or on specific metadata records 3 2 1 Creating new user Groups The administrator can create new groups of users User groups can correspond to logical units within an organisation For example groups for Fisheries Agriculture Land and Water Health etcetera To create new groups you should be logged on with an account that has administrative privileges To log in simply go to the home page and enter your username and password in the top right corner fields then click on the login button o N 3 2 User and Group Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Warning New installations of GeoNetwork use admin for both username and password It is important to change this from the Administration page once you logged on 1 Select the Administration button in the menu On the Administration page select Group manage ment ADMINISTRATION MO Password 5 Roco Figure 3 8 Login form New metadata Adds new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a tem
45. IP networks LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP IP Shibboleth The Shibboleth System is a standards based open source software package for web single sign on across or within organisational boundaries It allows sites to make informed authorisation decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy preserving manner DC The Dublin Core metadata element set is a standard for cross domain information resource de scription It provides a simple and standardised set of conventions for describing things online in ways that make them easier to find ESA European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to the exploration of space http www esa int FOSS Free and Open Source Software also F OSS FOSS or FLOSS free libre open source software is software which is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to study change and improve its design through the availability of its source code http en wikipedia org wiki FOSS JDBC The Java Database Connectivity JDBC API is the industry standard for database independent connectivity between the Java programming language and a wide range of databases SQL databases and other tabular data sources such as spreadsheets or flat files The JDBC API pro vides a call level API for SQL based database access JDBC technology allows you to use the Java programmin
46. Mode Icon Description Restarc J The tool can be always used but GeoNetwork must be restarted in order to make the change effective Run s The tool can be used only if GeoNetwork is running ning Stopped The tool can be used only if GeoNetwork is stopped This is important because some tools change the database s account or create the database from scratch These are sensitive operations that cannot be performed while GeoNetwork is running 3 9 4 Tools subdivision All GAST tools present into the left panel are logically subdivided into groups Each group represents a GeoNetwork s aspect for which GAST allows you a graphic interface The groups are Configuration You can change some configuration parameters like the servlet s name JDBC account etc Management General purpose tools related to the site s administration Database Operations that regard the database Here you can find tools to create a database from scratch creating the schema and filling it with proper data Migration Tools that allow you to migrate metadata from old installation 3 9 5 Server and Account configuration dialogue Some of the GAST s tools access a running GeoNetwork application Usually GAST connects to GeoNetwork using the connection parameters it finds on the installation folder but you can specify other parameters in order to connect to other instances This is required when the GeoNetwork instance is not running on the embedded Jett
47. Options Most options are equivalent to WebDAV harvesting Validate The validate option when checked will validate each harvested metadata against GeoNetwork s schemas Only valid metadata will be harvested Invalid one will be skipped Privileges Please see WebDAV harvesting Categories Please see WebDAV harvesting Please note that when you edit a previously created node both the set and prefix drop down lists will be empty They will contain only the previously selected entries plus the default ones if they were not selected Furthermore the set name will not be localised but the internal code string will be displayed You have to press the retrieve info button again to connect to the remote server and retrieve the localised name and all set and prefix information Adding an OGC Service ie WMS WFS WCS An OGC service implements a GetCapabilities operation that GeoNetwork acting as a client can use to produce metadata The GetCapability document provides information about the service and the lay ers feature types coverages served GeoNetwork will convert it into ISO19139 119 format MARVESTING MANAGEMENT SITE OPTIONS PRIVILECES Group View Interactive map Featured Al z F I Remove CATEGORY FOR SERVICE CATEGORY FOR DATASETS aset 3 633 Save Figure 3 27 Adding an OGC service harvesting node Configuration options Site Name The name of the catalogue and will be one
48. PPLICATIONS WHERE GEONETWORK S PURPOSE IS To improve access to and integrated use of spatial data and information To support decision making To promote mumtidisciplinary approaches to sustainable development To enhance understanding of the benefits of geographic information GeoNetwork opensource allows to easily share geographically referenced thematic information between different organizations For more information please contact Any gt aD REE PHYSIOGRAPHIC MAP OF NORTH AND CENTRAL EURASIA SAMPLE Options RECORD PLEASE REMOVE Reset Advanced Applications ais Physiographic maps for the CIS and Baltic States CIS 85 Mongolia China and Taiwan Province of China Between the three regions China Case studies best practices gt Conference proceedings Datasets Mongolia and CIS BS countries OCW Directories boundaries were introduc Interactive resources more Maps amp graphics Other information resources Photo Hydrological Basins in Africa Sample record please remove Physiographic Map of North and Central Eurasia Sample record please remove Figure 2 51 Standard home page of GeoNetwork opensource Other Software requirements A Java Runtime Environment JRE 1 5 0 For server installations Apache Tomcat and a dedicated JDBC compliant DBMS MySQL Postgresql Oracle can be used instead of Jetty and McKoiDB respectively Additional Softw
49. Release 2 6 4 Catalogue services CSW Z39 50 OGC CSW configuration See OGC CSW Server configuration Z39 50 configuration 239 50 GeoNetwork can act as a Z39 50 server which is an OGC communication protocol to query and retrieve metadata Enable Check this option to start the Z39 50 submodule Please notice that GeoNetwork must be restarted in order to make this change active port This is the port on which GeoNetwork will be listening for incoming Z39 50 requests Usually the value of 2100 is a standard one but to have multiple GeoNetwork nodes on the same machine you have to change this value in order to avoid port conflicts between the different nodes XLink resolver Enables disables the XLink resolver XLink resolver replaces content of the elements with attribute Gxlink href except for srv operatesOn element with the referenced content The XLink resolver is used for example in Metadata fragments harvester to retrieve the metadata fragments referenced in the metadata and insert in it Clickable hyperlinks Enables disables hyperlinks in metadata content for urls INSPIRE Enables disables the INSPIRE search options in advanced search panel Proxy configuration Proxy In some occasions like harvesting GeoNetwork must be able to connect to remote sites and this may be denied if an organisation uses proxy servers In this cases GeoNetwork must be configured to use the proxy server in order to route outgoing
50. SW Server configuration 73 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Contact The main contact who is defined in the GetCapabilities document of the CSW service This contact is one user of the catalogue Title The title of your CSW service Abstract The abstract of your CSW service Fees Access constraints The properties Title Abstract Fees and Access constraints can be configured in the languages supported by GeoNetwork GUI When the user asks for the Capabilities document the values are returned in the language used in the URL e http SERVER geonetwork srv en csw request GetCapabilities amp returns the Capabilities document with english values e http SERVER geonetwork srv fr csw request GetCapabilities amp returns the Capabilities document with french values When INSPIRE is enabled and is provided the language parameter in the Capabilities URL it is used the value of this parameter For example e http SERVER geonetwork srv fr csw request GetCapabilities amp amp language eng returns the Capabilities document with english values The service description also contains the main keywords of the catalogue The list of keywords is generated by the catalogue based on metadata content 3 4 Import facilities 3 4 1 File import The file import facility allows you to import metadata records in XML format or MEF format or copy paste XML metadata to insert In order to use this fa
51. Select the validate check box if you want your metadata to be validated according to the related schema 5 Select the group in charge of the metadata from the drop down list 6 Select Maps and Graphics from the list of categories 7 Click the Insert button and the metadata will be imported into the system 2 7 Metadata in Spatial Data Management 2 7 1 What is Metadata Metadata commonly defined as data about data or information about data is a structured set of in formation which describes data including both digital and non digital datasets stored in administrative systems Metadata may provide a short summary about the content purpose quality location of the data as well as information related to its creation 2 7 2 What are Metadata Standards Metadata standards provide data producers with the format and content for properly describing their data allowing users to evaluate the usefulness of the data in addressing their specific needs The standards provide a documented common set of terms and definitions that are presented in a struc tured format 50 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 IMPORT XML FORMATTED METADATA Metadata Type menda El StyleSheet nne Fl Destination schema liso19139 Validate Group Sample group x Category nne y Figure 2 49 XML metadata import tool 2 7 Metadata in Spatial Data Management 51 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2
52. TION Template Template for Vector data in IS019139 multilingual Template for Vector data in IS019139 multilingual Template for Vector data in ISO19139 preferred Template for Raster data in ISO19139 Template for WMS service in ISO19139 119 Template for Dublin Core Geoserver WFS Fragments Country Boundaries Test Template Deegree22 WFS Fragments Philosopher Database Test Template SORT TEMPLATES Template for Vector data in ISO19139 preferred 3 7 Templates 99 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 3 7 2 Add templates This option allows the user to select the metadata templates to add in the catalog to create new metadata records Template Sort Templates Sort your templates Add templates Add default templates Miso19139 119 7is019110 M dublin core Q fgdc std Jal Mark the metadata templates to import and click Add templates button to import them in the catalog and make them are avaliable when creating new metadata records 3 8 Thesaurus 3 8 1 Introduction Thesaurus support in GeoNetwork allows Metadata editing controlled vocabulary on the metadata editing interface for ISO and Dublin Core Administration interface allows import export creation browse thesaurus Search interface a list of keyword is proposed for the keyword criteria On a node thesaurus types could be defined as External When a thesaurus is imported it is flagged to external which means that users are not allowe
53. a gt gt gt T wee Keyword mimi enia Type 4 Cita Pee z Tue Alternate title pate A Date Edition El caton este dm Cited responsible party El EUM form Series El are details Text gco CharacterString Collective title El ISBN E ISSN El Figure 3 36 Keyword selection view mode 104 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 available in the index are display User could type in the keyword field or click the icon to get the list of keywords available EASL TLL l maps 1 ree Text remote search eywords l acence de l eau Cl recision D PRRG A cation lis Any agence de l esut1 result ar up lbanamast result ALE gory Orie Desu de su facall result rik E Any hi Figure 3 37 Thesaurus search interface keywords Ll Precision Location bahamas Bau de surface E Group aE TE Category l Bri Site nt Figure 3 38 Auto complete function in thesaurus search interface By configuring the config gui xml file in the WEB INF directory search for keyword using the advanced keyword selection panel is available as in the metadata editor lt search gt Display or not keyword selection panel in advanced search panel lt keyword selection panel gt gt lt search gt 3 9 GeoNetwork s Administrator Survival Tool GAST 3 9 1 What is GAST GAST stands for GeoNetwork s Administrator Survival
54. ackage Core 1 3 Processing package Sample metadata 2 3 Processing package GeoServer web map server 3 3 Unpacking finished 56 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 gi IzPack Installation of geonetwork W Welcome to the installation of geonetwork 2 1 0 69 This software is developed by FAO GeoNetwork Team lt GeoNetwork fao org VAM WFP vamsie wfp org UNEP net lt info unep net gt OCHA ochageodata pun org OSGeo lt geonetwork osgeo org gt The homepage is at http geonetwork opensource orgf Made with IzPack hitpJhwww izforge com Figure 2 52 Installer IzPack Installation of geonetwork 18 Select the packs you want to install Q Note Grayed packs are required Sample metadata GeoServer web map server 44 57 MB CSW 2 0 1 test client 49 08 KB Source code 2 33 MB Installer building tools 17 04 MB Figure 2 53 Packages to be installed 2 8 Installing the software 57 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 IzPack Installation of geonetwork Installation has completed successfully An uninstaller program has been created in Applications geonetwork2 20 1 Uninstaller D geonetwork220 1 4 6 E D bin D jety E web BS docs 3 schematrons 9 gast 5 Uninstaller Made with IzPack http izpack org Figure 2 54 Save the installation script for commandlin
55. and offline administration funcionalities to configure backup and mi grate the application We have also added a convenient import and export format MEF or Metadata Exchange Format that allows the users to move metadata previews and even data in a convenient sin gle file GNos can be easily expanded with plugins to export import metadata to from other software supporting MEF 2 8 2 Where do get the installer You can find the software on the Internet at the GeoNetwork opensource Commu nity website The software is also distributed through the SourceForge net Website at http sourceforge net projects geonetwork Use the platform independent installer jar if you need anything more than a plain Windows installation 2 8 3 System requirements GeoNetwork can run either on MS Windows Linux or Mac OS X Some general system requirements for the software to run without problems are listed below Processor 1 GHz or higher Memory RAM 512 MB or higher Disk Space 30 MB minimum However it is suggested to have a minimum of 250 MB of free disk space Additional space is required depending on the amount of spatial data that you expect to upload into the internal geodatabse 54 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 GeoNetwork Home Contact us Links About Help Username SEE Possword 1 H WHAT A FIND INTERACTIVE MAPS GIS DATASETS SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RELATED A
56. are The software listed here is not required to run GeoNetwork but can be used for custom installations 1 MySQL DBMS v5 5 All 2 Postgresql DBMS v7 All 3 Apache Tomcat v5 5 All 4 Druid v3 8 All to inspect the database Supported browsers GeoNetwork should work normally with the following browsers 1 Firefox v1 54 All 2 Internet Explorer v6 Windows 3 Safari v3 Mac OS X Leopard All Windows Linux and Mac OS X 2 8 Installing the software 55 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 8 4 How dol install GeoNetwork opensource Before running the GeoNetwork installer make sure that all system requirements are satisfied and in particular that the Java Runtime Environment version 1 5 0 is set up on your machine On Windows If you use Windows the following steps will guide you to complete the installation other FOSS will follow 1 Double click on geonetwork install 2 2 0 exe to start the GeoNetwork opensource desktop in staller 2 Follow the instructions on screen You can choose to install sample data install the embedded map server based on GeoServer and the CSW 2 0 1 test client Developers may be interested in installing the source code and installer building tools Full source code can be found in the GeoNetwork Sub Version code repository 3 After completion of the installation process a GeoNetwork desktop menu will be added to your Windows Start menu under P
57. at 340 19 jan 15 47 00000 00099 drwxr xr x 21 tomcat tomcat 714 23 dec 19 30 geoserver_data drwxr xr x 3 tomcat tomcat 102 23 dec 19 30 removed drwxr xr x 3 tomcat tomcat 102 19 jan 15 47 tmp The above example shows that only the user tomcat has write access on the directories listed All other users have read and execute rights only See http en wikipedia org wiki Filesystem_permissions for more details on file permissions Make sure your web server is running as user tomcat Check this with the command ps aux grep tomcat You should see the processes that have tomcat in their description Something like this bash 3 2 ps aux grep tomcat tomcat 22253 0 7 0 0 2435120 532 s000 S 5 03pm 0 00 00 grep tomcat tomcat 22251 0 0 1 9 2861960 80596 s000 S 5 03pm 0 03 85 System Library If all is well the user referred to at the start of this string in this case tomcat is the same user that has write permissions on the data and tmp directories You now have two possible solutions Make the data and temporary directories writable to all users You can change this using the command chmod R a w install directory gt data Your permissions should now look like this drwXrWXIWX 6 tomcat tomcat 204 19 jan 15 34 SECs Note the w refers to write access The second solution is to ensure the user running the webserver is the same user that holds write access to the data directory in this case tomcat For this you can a
58. bution you must make clear to others the license terms of this work The best way to do this is with a link to this web page You may obtain a copy of the License at Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3 0 Unported Li cense The document is written in reStructuredText format for consistency and portability 1 3 Author Information The documentation was written by the GeoNetwork opensource Developers and other community members The basis for the reStructuredText based documentation is based on the work done by the GeoServer project and the Sphinx framework If you have questions found a bug or have enhancements please contact us through the GeoNetwork opensource Development Mailing list at geonetwork devel O lists sourceforge net 4 Chapter 1 Preface CHAPTER 2 Quick Start Guide 2 1 Geographic Information Management for all 2 1 1 Introduction What is GeoNetwork opensource GeoNetwork opensource is a standard based and decentralised spatial information management system designed to enable access to geo referenced databases and cartographic products from a variety of data providers through descriptive metadata enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organisations and their audience using the capacities and the power of the Internet The system provides broad community of users with easy and timely access to available spatial data and thematic maps from multidisciplinary sources that may in th
59. ccuracy can be directly added into the advanced form Metadata Author Provide information about the author of the map including the person s name organization position role and any other contact information available After completion of this section you may select the Type of document that you are going to save in the catalogue You have three options Metadata Template Sub template By default Metadata is set up When done you may click Save or Save and Close to close the editing session 2 5 2 Metadata validation In editing mode editors could validate the current metadata record against standard rules and recom mendations For all standards a first level of validation is made for XML metadata validation based on XML Schema XSD For ISO19139 records other rules are checked SO recommendations GeoNetwork recommendations Optional and not available by default INSPIRE recommendations The validation report display the list of rules checked and their status pass or failed The top checkbox allows to display only errors or all 2 5 3 Creating a Thumbnail Next you need to create a graphic overview of your map which will be for a double purpose as small thumbnail will be displayed in search results and as large thumbnail with much more details to allow users to properly evaluate the data usefulness As for the latest the image that you will use as source should be a significant reproduction of the real dataset
60. cility you have to be logged in as an edi tor After the login step go to the administration page and select the Metadata insert link Clicking the link you will open the metadata import page You have to specify a set of parameters to make the import working Depending on the insert type you will perform XML file import For both XML and MEF file import you could choose actions to be performed at import Import actions options are No action on import nothing done during import process Overwrite metadata with same UUID this option will delete existing metadata with the same UUID and add the new one Generate UUID for inserted metadata this option will force a new UUID for each metadata inserted Stylesheet option This is a powerful option because allows you to specify a stylesheet for an XSL transformation The drop down control is filled with files taken from the web xsl conversion import folder all XSL files you put there will be made available This is a dynamic process so you don t have to restart GeoNetwork The purpose of this option is to allow the conversion of a metadata into a suitable format that is supported by GeoNetwork Validate option This is a simple validation step that you can choose to perform The metadata is validated against its schema Group option You have to select a group to associate to the imported metadata Usually the group is the creator of the metadata 74 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork U
61. ctional the 76 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Insert mode File Upload Copy Paste Metadata Type Metadata Import actions No action on import O Overwrite metadata with same UUID Generate UUID for inserted metadata Soest Validate O Group Sample group can Figure 3 17 The XML insert options 3 4 Import facilities 77 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Metadata insert Search for Unused Transfer ownership Template Sort Templates Add templates Personal info Change password Change user information Administration User management Group management Category management Manage thesauri Harvesting management System configuration Localization Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n CSW ISO Profile test Sample metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer metadata ownership to another user Sort your templates Add default templates Jis019139 119 Jiso19110 dublin core fgdc std Jall Add templates Allow current user to change password Allow current user to change user information Add modify delete and show users Add modify delete and show groups Add modify delete and show categories Add m
62. cur for resources that are part of the Group 4 Click on Save Warning The Name should NOT contain spaces You can use the Localisation functions to provide localised names for groups 68 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 GROUP MANAGEMENT Important This form allows you to add a Key value to the database The key can not have spaces After adding your key values use the Localization form in the Administration panel to provide the actual name you want to be displayed on the website for the different languages Name Description Operation sample Figure 3 10 Group management ADD A NEW GROUP Important This form allows you to add a Key value to the database The key can not have spaces After adding your key values use the Localization form in the Administration panel to provide the actual name you want to be displayed on the website for the different languages e Description This group of users maintains forest related data Download Email forestry myorg org Figure 3 11 Group edit form 3 2 User and Group Administration 69 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Access privileges can be set per metadata record You can define privileges on a per Group basis Privileges that can be set relate to visibility of the Metadata Publish data Download Interactive Map access and display of the record in the Featured section of the home page Editing d
63. currently using Geographic data st uy 7 A Home Last results Administration Contact us Links About Help English Fran User adr Save and close Advanced view Figure 2 33 Metadata view options 30 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 In the previous chapter you have analyzed the metadata structure as it is presented in the Default View A selection of the main fields from different categories of information is shown in one single view The minimum set of metadata required to serve the full range of metadata applications data discovery determination of data fitness for use data access data transfer and use of digital data is defined here along with optional metadata elements to allow for a more extensive standard description of geographic data if required However if should be there a need to add more metadata elements you can switch to the advanced view at any time while editing In the Advanced View the ISO profile offers the possibility to visualize and edit the entire metadata structure organized in sections accessible through tabs from the left column You can use this view to write more advanced metadata descriptions or templates to fit specialized needs GeoN Geographic data Home Last results Administration Contact us Links About Help English Fr User a A Sm ar USEF E Thumbnail yanced view CE Metadata Maintenance Cons
64. d Agriculture Organization ot A Keywords selection x Credit i Any the p 50 status A X y thesaurus v gua x Number of results per thesaurus Point of contact El Available keywords Selected keywords Resource maintenance E Antigua and Barbuda extemal place regions Clear L Maintenance information o Guadeloupe extemal place regions France extemal place regions z xtemal place regions Maintenance and update frequency Guam extemal place regions Guyana extemaLp Date of next update Guatemala extemal place regions p Martinique exte User defined maintenance frequency Nicaragua ext Update scope E ed i Guadeloupe extemal pla Update scope description Paraguay e Maintenance note Uruguay extemal place regions Contact coastguard external stratum gemet E Resource format Descriptive keywords a 1 E Keyword BIE France L Keyword x 4 F Martinique F KAM Guadeloupe Title external place regions Alternate title FH mamn rape Then in the other actions menu the compute boundinx box menus are available Save Save and close Check E Other actions Le El mumpnaits E Compute extent replace P Compute extent add The metadata is saved during t
65. d to edit the thesaurus This thesaurus is managed by an external organisation Local When a thesaurus is created it is flagged to local which means that users are allowed to edit the thesaurus 3 8 2 Thesaurus SKOS format The Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems SKOS http www w3 org 2004 02 skos is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organisation systems KOS such as thesauri classification schemes This format is used by GeoNetwork to store thesaurus information A concept is defined by an identifier a preferred label a definition and links with other concepts Labels and definitions could be stored in multiple languages using the xml lang attributes Three type of links between concepts have been defined in the SKOS format related terms broader terms narrower terms For example a concept ABLETTE could be defined as follow with a label in French and English linked to broader concept 100 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 lt skos Concept rdf about http www oieau org conceptitc4fc54576dc00227b82a709287ac3681 gt lt skos prefLabel xml lang fr gt ABLETTE lt skos prefLabel gt lt skos prefLabel xml lang en gt BLEAK lt skos prefLabel gt lt skos broader rdf resource http www oieau org concept 9f25ece36d04776e09492c6662 lt skos Concept gt GeoNetwork support multilingual thesaurus e
66. dd modify delete and show groups Add modify delete and show categories Add modify delete and show thesauri Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks Allows to change some system s parameters Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Fontis This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Add sample metadata Figure 3 1 The link to the System configuration page Site General site parameters Name The name of the GeoNetwork installation This name will be used to identify the node in opera tions like the harvesting Organization The organization the node belongs to Just for informative reasons Server Here you have to enter the address of your GeoNetwork s node This address is important because it will be used to access the node Host The node s address or IP number If your node is publicly accessible from the Internet you have to use the machine s domain address If your node is hidden into your private network and you have a firewall or web server that redirects incoming calls to the node you have to enter the public address of the firewall or web server A typical configuration is to have an Apache web server on address A that is publicly accessible and redirects the requests to a Tomcat server on a private address B In this case you have to enter A in the host parameter Port
67. dels land cover topographic maps imagery unclassified images annotations rivers and glaciers salt lakes water utilisation plans dams cutrents floods water quality hydrographic charts barracks training grounds military transportation information collection addresses geodetic networks control points postal zones and services place names tides tidal waves coastal information reefs land use maps zoning maps cadastral surveys land ownership Settlements anthropology archaeology education traditional beliefs manners and customs demographic data recreational areas and activities social impact assessments crime and justice census information buildings museums churches factories housing monuments shops towers roads airports airstrips shipping routes tunnels nautical charts vehicle or vessel location aeronautical Cartography Vulnerability Early Warning Emergency IDPS Refugees Population Poverty Food Security Regional Bureaux WFP Facilities School feeding Infrastructure COMPAS Food Aid Food Beneficiaries Railways Roads Shipments 119 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Y a Utilities Communication Utility Distribution hydroelectricity geothermal Networks solar and nuclear sources of Energy water and waste energy water purification and systems and distribution sewage collection communications and disposal electricit
68. e To remove a row simply press the associated Remove button on its right Categories Here you can assign local categories to harvested metadata Adding a CSW node This type of harvesting is capable of connecting to a remote CSW server and retrieving all matching metadata Please note that in order to be harvested metadata must have one of the schema format 88 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 HARVESTING MANAGEMENT Name URL http www sonnensturm net 8888 r Icon REMOTE default gif v Use account Username userl Every b b S 6 days hours minutes One run only Validate n Recurse n PRIVILEGES Groups Intranet AII Sample group Group View Interactive map Featured CATEGORIES Maps amp graphics n Interactive resources Applications Case studies best practices Conference proceedings Photo Audio Video Figure 3 24 Adding a WebDAV node 3 5 Harvesting 89 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 handled by GeoNetwork The figure above shows the options available Site Here you have to specify the connection parameters which are similar to the web DAV harvesting In this case the URL points to the capabilities document of the CSW server This document is used to discover the location of the services to call to query and retrieve metadata Search criteria Using the Add button you can add several search criteria You
69. e 2 41 WMS online resource The Interactive Map button opens a window to select the layer s defined in WMS capabilities document to load in map viewer Selecting protocols OGC WMS Web Map Service OGC Web Map Service 1 1 1 or OGC Web Map Service 1 3 0 1 URL Url of WMS service 2 Name of the resource WMS layer name optional The behaviour the Interactive Map button depends if user indicated the layer name in the field Name of the resource or not to show the window to select the layer s to load in map viewer or load the layer directly 2 5 5 Linking data for download Finally you can upload the dataset stored on your local computer and then create a link between data and related description Files in whatever format can be uploaded doc PDF images vector layers etc For the latter the distribution in a compressed file is recommended You can include the verctor data the legend any documentation that can help the interpretation of the data related reports detailed descriptions of the data processing base data used to create the dataset specified and or other relevant information Follow these guidelines for uploading datasets Make sure the total size of the compressed file is reasonable less than 50 MB Should your data be bigger than 50MB consider a different mechanism to serve this data e g through an FTP or HTTP server and than link the resource through an online resource Web address URL You can create se
70. e among others the Food and Agriculture organisation FAO the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs UNOCHA the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CSI CGIAR The UN Environmental Programme UNEP The European Space Agency ESA and many others Support for the metadata standard 18019115 2003 has been added by using the ISO19139 2007 implementation specification schema published in May 2007 The release also serves as the open source reference implementation of the OGC Catalogue Service for the Web CSW 2 0 2 specification Im provements to give users a more responsive and interactive experience have been substantial and include a new Web map viewer and a complete revision of search interface The use of International Standards GeoNetwork has been developed following the principles of a Free and Open Source Software FOSS and based on International and Open Standards for services and protocols like the ISO TC211 and the Open Geospatial Consortium OGC specifications The architecture is largely compatible with the OGC Portal Reference Architecture i e the OGC guide for implementing standardised geospatial portals Indeed the structure relies on the same three main modules identified by the OGC Portal Ref erence Architecture that are focused on spatial data metadata and interactive map visualisation The system is also fully compliant with the OGC specifications for querying and retrieving information
71. e end support informed decision making The main goal of the software is to increase collaboration within and between organisations for reducing duplication and enhancing information consistency and quality and to improve the accessibility of a wide variety of geographic information along with the associated information organised and documented in a standard and consistent way Main Features Instant search on local and distributed geospatial catalogues Uploading and downloading of data documents PDF s and any other content An interactive Web map viewer that combines Web Map Services from distributed servers around the world Online map layout generation and export in PDF format Online editing of metadata with a powerful template system Scheduled harvesting and synchronisation of metadata between distributed catalogues Groups and users management Fine grained access control GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Background and evolution The prototype of the GeoNetwork catalogue was developed by the Food and Agriculture organisation of the United Nations FAO in 2001 to systematically archive and publish the geographic datasets produced within the organisation The prototype was built on experiences within and outside the or ganisation It used metadata content available from legacy systems that was transformed into what was then only a draft metadata standard the ISO 19115 Later on another UN agency the World Food Prog
72. e harvesting protocol sup ported by the remote server The supported protocols are 1 GeoNetwork 2 1 remote node This is the standard and most powerful harvesting protocol used in GeoNetwork It is able to log in into the remote node to perform a standard search using the common query fields and to import all matching metadata Furthermore the protocol will try to keep both remote privileges and categories of the harvested metadata if they exist locally Please notice that since GeoNetwork 2 1 the harvesting protocol has been improved This means that it is not possible to use this protocol to harvest from version 2 0 or below 2 WebDAV server This harvesting type uses the webDAV Distributed Authoring and Versioning protocol to harvest metadata from a DAV server It can be useful to users that want to publish their metadata through a web server that offers a DAV interface The protocol allows to retrieve the contents of a web page a list of files with their change date 3 Catalogue Services for the Web 2 0 The Open Geospatial Consortium Catalogue Services for the Web and it is a search interface for catalogues developed by the Open Geospatial Consor tium GeoNetwork implements version 2 0 of this protocol 4 GeoNetwork v2 0 remote node GeoNetwork 2 1 introduced a new powerful harvesting engine which is not compatible with GeoNetwork version 2 0 based catalogues Old 2 0 servers can still harvest from 2 1 servers but harvesting metadata fro
73. e installations 58 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Writing the uninstaller data Automated installation done You can also run the installation with lots of debug output To do so run the installer with the flag DTRACE true java DTRACE tru jar geonetwork install 2 6 0 0 jar 2 8 5 XSLT processor configuration Thefile INSTALL DIR web geonetwork WEB INF classes META INF javax xml transform Tre defines the XSL processor to use in GeoNetwork The allowed values are l de fzi dbs xml transform CachingTransformerFactory for XSL caching rec ommended value for production use When caching is on only the main XSL stylesheet last update date is checked and not all included XSL If you update an included stylesheet cache is still used 2 net sf saxon TransformerFactoryImpl to use Saxon GeoNetwork sets the XSLT processor configuration on the JVM system properties at startup time for an instant to obtain its TransformerFactory implementation then resets it to original value to minimize affect the XSL processor configuration for other applications 2 8 Installing the software 59 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 60 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide CHAPTER 3 Administration 3 1 Basic configuration 3 1 1 System configuration Most of the GeoNetwork system configuration parameters can be changed using the web interface Those para
74. e portal to spatial data and information Mozilla Firefox DER GeoNetwork Geographic data sharing for everyone Keywo d ON definition Identifier 4b4 7cb2f51650525e703deo41cf1200 Label ACCIDENTALLY POLLUTION English Definition amp elstsd Term H e MARITIMA TRANSPORTATION Close e POLMAR PLAN IAD FRANSPORTATIC Figure 3 34 Keyword description 3 8 Thesaurus 103 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Opescriptive keywords a aa Kei m Thesaurus name E iin Resource specific usage Resource constraints 2 E Available keywords Selected keywords O gal constraints Africa extemal place regions n Use limitation El us Clear Eastem Africa external place regions Use constraints El Central African Republic extemal place regions Other constraints s Near East and North Africa extemal place regions Near East in Afnca extemal place regions North Africa extemal place regions North Westom Africa extemal place regions South Africa extemal place regions Southem Africa extemal place regions aas Resource constraints El Aggregation Information El Spatial representation type s Spatial resolution LJResolution equivalent scale Figure 3 35 Keyword selection interface editing mode ODescriptive keywords keyword im Thesaurus name amp Te m LJDescriptive keywords 8i s x J Central Afric
75. efines the groups for which editors can edit the metadata record Notify defines what groups are notified when a file managed by GeoNetwork is downloaded Below is an example of the privileges management table related to a dataset Hydrological Basins in Africa Sample re Groups Publish Download Interactive Featured Editing Notify Map All Y Intranet Guest Figure 3 12 Privilege settings 3 2 2 Creating new Users To add a new user to the GeoNetwork system you do the following 1 Select User Management from the Administration link in the toolbar 2 Click the button Add a new user 1 Provide the information required for the new user 1 Assign the correct profile 2 Assign the user to a group 3 Click on Save 3 2 3 User Profiles Users can have different profiles depending on their role in the GeoNetwork system A profile defines what tasks the user can perform 70 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 USER MANAGEMENT eee ee ona po sas Username LastName FirstName Profile admin admin editor Guest reviewer Guest user Guest useradmin Guest 84444423233828252555532585855424324444444424222322258955552538585534244444444244225582535855582328335 admin Administrator Editor Editor Reviewer Reviewer User RegisteredUser Useradmin UserAdmin Username Password Confirm password Last Name First Name Address State Country Email Figure
76. elements facilitating both the user and the editor in reading and editing a metadata record and at the same time it ensures that a geospatial data can be properly described through the minimum set of metadata required to serve the full range of metadata applications data dis covery determination of data fitness for use data access data transfer and use of digital data optional metadata elements to allow for a more extensive standard description of geographic data if required a method for extending metadata to fit specialized needs 2 4 4 Using basic commands of the editor Fields are either free text fields or drop down lists Free text means you can type any text into that field Drop down lists allow you to select only one option from the list You can add multiple fields of the same kind by clicking on the symbol next to the element Every new field that you will add in the advanced view will then be visible in the default view You can also delete existing fields by clicking on the x symbol next to the element Clearly mandatory fields cannot be deleted One example of the 32 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Point of contact identification of and means of communication with person s and organizations s associated with the resourcels Point of contact individual O name name Position name Facsimile gm area Postal code
77. eme El extemal ThessurusEsu 1 0 0betal rdf Download Delete View ocal asa rdf Download De te Edit Figure 3 31 Administration interface for thesaurus For each thesaurus the following buttons are available Download Link to the RFD file Delete Remove thesaurus from the current node 3 8 Thesaurus 101 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 View If type is external the view button allows to search and view concepts Edit If type is local the edit button allows to search add remove and view concepts Import existing thesaurus GeoNetwork allows thesaurus import in SKOS format Once uploaded an external thesaurus could not be updated Select the category browse for the thesaurus file and click upload The file is located in web xml codelist external thesauri category Upload thesaurus Thesaurus category File gt Figure 3 32 Upload interface for thesaurus At the bottom of the page there are the following buttons 1 Back Go back to the main administration page 2 Upload Upload the selected RFD file to the node Then it will list all thesaurus available on the node 3 8 4 Editing browsing thesaurus add remove browse keywords From the thesaurus administration interface click on the edit button for a local thesaurus or the view button for an external thesaurus This interface allows keywords search add remove keywords for local thesaurus Use the textbox and t
78. eoNetwork will look for and try to import all XML or MEF files present into this directory It is important to notice that this is the directory on the server machine and not on the client of the user that is doing the import Import actions options are also available from bacth import please refer to XML import for options you could use Validate This is a simple validation step that you can choose to perform The metadata is validated against its schema Group You have to select a group to associate to the imported metadata Usually the group is the creator of the metadata set Category You can specify one category to associate to your metadata in order to simplify the search Stylesheet This is a powerful option because allows you to specify a stylesheet for an XSL transformation The drop down control is filled with files taken from the web xsl conversion import folder all XSL files you put there will be made available This is a dynamic process so you don t have to restart GeoNetwork The purpose of this option is to allow the conversion of a metadata into a suitable format that is supported by GeoNetwork Therefore it is important that the result of the transformation matches the schema format selected above Below the page there are the following buttons Back Goes back to the administration form Upload Starts the import process When the process ends the total count of imported metadata will be shown Please notice that the import is transa
79. esting nodes Anyway this is not a good practise because every copy of the metadata will have a different UUID and the system will fill with different copies of the same metadata CSW harvesting type 1 If the dct modified element is missing from the GetRecords response the metadata will be always harvested 2 Any exception during getRecordByld operation is discarded and the metadata skipped OAI PMH harvesting type 1 The id of the remote server must be a UUID If not metadata can be harvested but during hierar chical propagation id clashes could corrupt harvested metadata 2 During harvesting GeoNetwork will try to auto detect the schema of each metadata If the schema is not supported the metadata is skipped OGC service harvesting type 1 Every time the harvester runs it will remove previously harvested information and create new ones GeoNetwork will generate the id for all metadata both service and datasets Therefor for datasets if the metadata is created using a remote XML document ie if a MetadataUrl tag is in the GetCapability document the UUID of the document is used 2 Thumbnails are generated only for Web Map Service WMS The service should also support the WGS84 projection 3 5 6 The main page To access the harvesting main page you have to be logged in as an administrator From the administration page click the link shown below with a red rectangle The figure above shows the harvesting main page The
80. etwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 H Ke Reset HOptions Figure 2 7 Show advanced search options WHAT ctherofthe do words wem Fd keywords El Map type Digital interactive Hard copy Downloadable E Search accuracy Precise Of X DOImprecise Figure 2 8 What section in the Advanced search 2 2 Getting Started 13 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WHERE lat maxjso lat min 90 Type overlaps M Reve Figure 2 9 Where section in the Advanced search If you choose Spatial search type is Country only maps for the selected country will be dis played In other words a city map within that country will not show in the output results If you choose Spatial search type overlaps Country all maps with the bounding box overlap ping that country will be displayed in the results i e the neighbouring countries the continent of which that country is part of and the global maps If you choose Spatial search type encloses Country you will get in the output results maps of that country first and then all maps within its bounding box Similarly if you choose Spatial search type is fully outside of a selected region only maps that follow that exact criteria will show in the output results The WHEN section gives you the possibility to restrict your search in terms of temporal extent indi cating a specific range of time referred to the data c
81. etwork installation directory some file should be read as some random file name Warning Be very careful when issuing commands on the terminal You can easily damage your operating system with no way back If you are not familiar with using the terminal don t do it contact an expert instead Make a backup of your data before you make any of the suggested changes below 7 1 HTTP Status 400 Bad request Check the availability and write permissions of the data and tmp directories See The data and data tmp directories 7 2 Metadata insert fails Inserting an XML or MEF file through the Metadata insert form fails silently Verify if the data directory is available and writable See The data and data tmp directories 7 3 Thumbnail insert fails Nothing happens when inserting a thumbnail through the wizard in the metadata editor Error in your log file looks like 123 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 HTTP Status 400 Cannot build ServiceRequest Cause install directory gt data tmp lt some Then check The data and data tmp directories 7 4 The data and data tmp directories On Linux or OS X systems verify from a terminal if the data directory is existing and is writable Is la install directory gt data This should show the permissions on the data directory For example total 0 drwxr xr x 6 tomcat tomcat 204 19 jan 15 34 drwxr xr x 8 tomcat tomcat 272 23 dec 19 30 drwxr xr x 10 tomcat tomc
82. fined in this section The temporal extent is defined through the starting and ending date of data validation Temporal Extent time period covered by the content of the dataset EUR EEN DAINESE End date O A Figure 2 23 Temporal extent The spatial extent of the interested area is defined through geographic coordinates or through the selec tion of a country or region from a predefined list Free text supplemental information can be added to complete the data identification section Geographic bounding box geographic position of the dataset uExtent North bound Geographic bounding box West bound East bound Dropdown list of longitude longitude countries the used iso feo map belongs to South bound latitude Supplemental ou can customize the template to suit your needs Information amp ou can add and remove fields and fill out default information e g contact details Fields you can not change in the default view may be accessible in the more comprehensive and more complex advanced view You can even use the XML editor to create Figure 2 24 Geographic bounding box Distribution Section This section provides metadata elements for accessing other useful on line resources available through the web The distribution elements allow for on line access using an URL address or similar addressing scheme and provide the protocol for the proper connect
83. from Web catalogues CSW It supports the most common standards to specifically describe geographic data 18019139 and FGDC and the international standard for general documents Dublin Core It uses standards OGS WMS also for visualising maps through the Internet Harvesting geospatial data in a shared environment Within the geographic information environment the increased collaboration between data providers and their efforts to reduce duplication have stimulated the development of tools and systems to significantly 6 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 improve the information sharing and guarantee an easier and quicker access of data from a variety of sources without undermining the ownership of the information The harvesting functionality in GeoNet work is a mechanism of data collection in perfect accordance with both rights to data access and data ownership protection Through the harvesting functionality it is possible to collect public information from the different GeoNetwork nodes installed around the world and to copy and store periodically this information locally In this way a user from a single entry point can get information also from distributed catalogues The logo posted on top each harvested record informs the user about the data source 2 1 2 GeoNetwork and the Open Source Community Development The community of users and developers of the GeoNetwork software has increased dramatical
84. fy search parameters they are the same present in the GeoNetwork homepage Before doing that it is important to remember that the GeoNetwork s harvesting can be hierarchical so a remote node can contain both its metadata and metadata har vested from other nodes and sources At the beginning the Source drop down is empty and you have to use the Retrieve sources button to fill it The purpose of this button is to query GeoNet work about all sources which it is currently harvesting from Once you get the drop down filled you can choose a source name to constrain the search to that source only Leaving the drop down blank the search will spread over all metadata harvested and not You can add several search cri teria for each site through the Add button several searches will be performed and results merged Each search box can be removed pressing the small button on the left of the site s name If no search criteria is added a global unconstrained search will be performed Options This is just a container for general options Every This is the harvesting period The smallest value is 1 minute while the greatest value is 100 days One run only If this option is checked the harvesting will do only one run after which it will become inactive Privileges Here you decide how to map remote group s privileges You can assign a copy policy to each group The Intranet group is not considered because it does not make sense to copy its
85. g language to exploit Write Once Run Anywhere capabilities for applications 127 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 that require access to enterprise data With a JDBC technology enabled driver you can connect all corporate data even in a heterogeneous environment 128 Chapter 8 Glossary Index C Creative Commons 125 CRUD 125 CSW 125 D DAO 125 DB or DBMS 125 DC 127 E ebRIM 125 ebXML 125 EJB 126 ESA 127 F FAO 126 FGDC 126 FOSS 127 G GAST 126 GeoNetwork 125 GPL 125 H HQL 126 l import MEF 74 XML 74 ISO 125 ISO TC211 125 J JDBC 127 JIBX 126 JMS 126 L LDAP 127 M MAC address 127 MEF 127 import 74 O OAI PMH 126 OCHA 126 OGC 126 OO 126 OSGeo 126 S Shibboleth 127 SKOS 127 SMTP 127 SOA 125 SOAP 126 T TDD 126 U UNEP 126 URL 126 UUID 127 W WCS 127 WebDAV 126 WEP 126 WES 126 129 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WMS 126 WPS 127 X XML 125 import 74 XSD 125 Z Z39 50 protocol 127 130 Index
86. he harvesting from this node is stopped ac tive tI Ac The harvesting engine is waiting for the timeout specified for this node When the tive timeout is reached the harvesting starts e Run The harvesting engine is currently running fetching metadata from remote nodes ning When the process will be finished the status will be switched to active Possible status icons Icon Description v The harvesting was OK no errors were found In this case a tool tip will show some harvesting results like the number of harvested metadata etc As The harvesting was aborted due to an unexpected condition In this case a tool tip will show some information about the error Possible error icons Harvesting result tips If the harvesting succeeds a tool tip will show detailed information about the harvesting process This way you can check if the harvester worked as expected or if there is something to fix to the harvesting parameters or somewhere else The result tip is like a table where each row refers to Total This is the total number of metadata found remotely Metadata with the same id are considered as one Added Number of metadata added to the system because they were not present locally Removed Number of metadata that have been removed locally because they are not present in the remote server anymore Updated Number of metadata that are present locally but that needed to be updated because their
87. he home page To assign categories for a map follow these steps Find your map by using the search option Whether you have multiple or single results from your search on top of the individual record or next to the record you will always see a row of buttons including a Categories button Click on the Categories button This will take you to a new page You can assign one or multiple categories selecting or deselecting them from this page Simply click on the small box next to the category to place or remove a checkmark 2 5 10 Multilingual metadata in 15019139 Editors could create multilingual metadata using ISO 19139 A default template is provided but user could add translation to an existing record 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 47 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Hydrological Basins in Africa Sample re x Categories Applications Audio Video Case studies best practices Datasets Directories Interactive resources Maps amp graphics Other information resources Photo Conference proceedings 0828020 m Assigned O Figure 2 47 Category management 48 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 To declare a new language in a metadata record First check the main language is defined in the metadata section then add one or more languages in the other language in the metadata section In editing mode each multilingual elements are composed of
88. he process and one extent is added for each keywords If user manually add keywords just before computing bounding box then it s recommended to save your metadata record before launching the action in order to have latest keywords taken into account 2 5 8 Assigning Privileges for a Map As an important step of entering metadata to your map you need to assign privileges for each map This means that you will identify which work groups have which privileges i e view download etc for your particular map For instance you can fdefine if the information and related services is visible to all Internet users or just to internal users only Intranet Privileges are assigned on a per group basis Depending on the user profile Guest Registered User Editor Admin etc access to these functions may differ on a per user basis To assign privileges for your map follow these steps Find your map by using the search option Whether you have multiple or single results from the search on top of the individual record or next to the record you will always see a row of buttons including a Privileges button Click on the Privileges button This will take you to a new page You can assign certain privileges to specific groups by selecting or deselecting them from this page Simply click on the small box next to the privilege to place or remove a checkmark Set All and Clear All buttons allow you to place and remove the checkmarks all at once
89. he type of search in order to search for keywords 3 8 5 Metadata editing adding keywords When editing metadata in ISO it allows editors to do one or more searches in all thesaurus registered in the catalogue select one or more keywords added to the selected items list using arrows or drag amp drop on the right add the selected keywords directly into metadata grouping keywords by thesaurus The search interface allows editors to choose the maximum number of keywords to returns and the thesaurus to search into default is all 3 8 6 Search criteria keywords In the advanced search interface search for keyword is available By default the keyword field will proposed all keywords used in the metadata These keywords are indexed by Lucene on creation update of metadata The number of metadata linked to all keywords 102 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Geographic data sharing fc sults Administration Contact us nks Ahout Help English Fra JA external theme ThesaurusEau 1 0 0betal Keywords zp lo Start with Contains y Exact term Start the search Back Number of terms found English 36 ACCOUNTABLE PROJECT AEROBIC THERMOPHIL STABILIZATION ANALYSIS LABORATORY ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY AUTHORIZED LABORATORY ODEG2ADA i WCAL S FATIG CRAB Figure 3 33 Browse interface for thesaurus http localhost 8080 GeoNetwork Th
90. ic data The underlying format of an ISO19115 2003 compliant metadata is XML GeoNetwork uses the SO Technical Specification 19139 Geographic information Metadata XML schema implementation for the encoding of this XML 2 7 5 Metadata profiles GeoNetwork supports multiple metadata profiles Profiles can take the form of Templates that you can create using the metadata editor Using the Advanced view of the editor virtually all of the metadata elements are accessible to the user Support for extensions to a metadata standard can also be achieved relatively quick by an experienced XML XSL software engineer 2 7 6 Transition between metadata standards With the ISO19115 2003 Metadata standard for Geographic Information now being the preferred com mon standard many have a need to migrate legacy metadata into the new standard GeoNetwork provides import and export functionality and has a number of transformers in place It is an easy process for a system administrator to install custom transformers based on XSLT 2 7 Metadata in Spatial Data Management 53 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 8 Installing the software 2 8 1 New version New funtionality The new GeoNetwork opensource comes with substantial upgrades of different components for a more intuitive and responsive user system interaction Web2 technologies have been adopted in particular AJAX techniques to allow for more interactive and faster services in the
91. ify delete start stop harvesting tasks Allows to change some system s parameters Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Optimize This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Add sample metadata Figure 3 41 How to open the Localization form The form allows you to localize the following entities Groups Categories Operations and Regions The localization form is subdivided in a left and a right panel The left panel allows you to choose which elements you want to edit On the top a dropdown let you choose which entity to edit All elements of the selected type are shown in a list 108 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 When you select an element from the list the right panel will show the text as it will be displayed in the user interface The text in the source language is read only while you can update the text in the target language field Note You can change the source and target languages to best suit your needs Some users may for instance prefer to translate from French to Spanish others prefer to work with English as the source language Use the Save button to store the updated label and move to the next element Warning If the user changes a label and chooses another target language without saving the label change is lost
92. il able to the Internet WPS can describe any calculation i e process including all of its inputs and outputs and trigger its execution as a Web Service UUID A Universally Unique Identifier UUID is an identifier standard used in software construc tion standardized by the Open Software Foundation OSF as part of the Distributed Computing Environment DCE MAC address Media Access Control address MAC address is a unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards NICs by the manufacturer for identification and used in the Media Access Control protocol sublayer See also http en wikipedia org wiki MAC address on Wikipedia MEF Metadata Exchange Format An export format developed by the GeoNetwork community More details can be found in this manual in Chapter Metadata Exchange Format SKOS The Simple Knowledge Organisation Systems SKOS is an area of work developing specifica tions and standards to support the use of knowledge organisation systems KOS such as thesauri classification schemes http www w3 org 2004 02 skos 239 50 protocol 739 50 is a client server protocol for searching and retrieving information from re mote computer databases It is covered by ANSI NISO standard Z39 50 and ISO standard 23950 The standard s maintenance agency is the Library of Congress SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is an Internet standard for electronic mail e mail transmission across Internet Protocol
93. ildren identifier character set language parent Metadata constraints identifier hierarchy level dataset URI and Spatial representation info identification section excluding extent and gt Reference System Information keywords are always preserved Parent locales are 5 qim f 3 always replaced Distribution Information Distribution and maintenance section are gt Data quality info always replaced even in add mode because e Application schema info 15019115 does not allow to have more than one gt Portrayal catalogue info gt Content Information gt Metadata Extension Information Update children Metadata on dataset metadata on service relation Linking a dataset to a service or a service to a dataset is made using the following panel Editor could define a layer name using the combo box which try to retrieve layers from the WMS GetCapabilities document or typing the layer name in the text field This information is required to display the layer using the map viewer 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 43 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 erm 62 Link dataset metadata x ghana xp Number of resuks 20 Metadata title Keywords un V Hydrological Basins in Ghana watersheds riw http www feo i T tit GetCapabiities Hydrological basins In Africa v layer Layer name hydrological basins Create relation o Create 2 new metadata record were T Relation is stored in srv operatesOn uuidref
94. ile profile Oo Il Figure 3 6 The LDAP configuration options Typically all users must have their details in the LDAP directory to login to GeoNetwork However if a user is added to the GeoNetwork database with the Administrator profile then they will be able to login 66 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 without their details being present in the LDAP directory Shibboleth Authentication When using either the GeoNetwork database or LDAP for authentication you can also configure shib boleth to allow authentication against access federations AUTHENTICATION Enable User Self Registration O pap Allow other users to login from Shibboleth Path geonetwork srv en shib user login Shibboleth attribute mapping Username REMOTE USER Surname Shib Person surname Firstname Shib InetOrgPerson givenName Profile Shib EF Entitlement Figure 3 7 The Shibboleth configuration options Shibboleth authentication requires interaction with Apache web server In particular the apache web server must be configured to require Shibboleth authentication to access the path entered in the configu ration The apache web server configuration will contain the details of the shibboleth server that works out where a user is located sometimes called a where are you from server The remainder of the shibboleth login configuration describes how shibboleth authentication attributes are mapped to
95. ing Skipping the UUID on import or export can cause metadata to be duplicated This should normally always be avoided 3 11 Import export tools 111 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 112 Chapter 3 Administration CHAPTER 4 Glossary of Metadata Fields Description This glossary provides you with brief descriptions of the minimum set of metadata fields required to properly describe a geographical data as well as some optional elements highly suggested for a more extensive standard description Access constraints Access constraints applied to assure the protection of privacy or intellectual prop erty and any special restrictions or limitations on obtaining the resource Abstract Brief narrative summary of the content of the resource s Administrative area State province of the location Temporal extent Begin date Formatted as 2007 09 12T15 00 00 Y Y Y Y MM DDTHH mm ss Character set Full name of the character coding standard used for the metadata set Grid spatial representation Cell geometry Identification of grid data as point or cell City City of the location Reference System Info Code Alphanumeric value identifying an instance in the namespace Country Country of the physical address Data quality info Provides overall assessment of quality of a resource s Date Reference date and event used to describe it Y Y Y Y MM DD Date stamp Date that the metadata was created Y Y Y Y MM DDThh mm ss Date
96. ion for accessing geographic data or any other types of digital documents using the download function Furthermore it is possible to link a metadata with a predefined map service through the online resource and see the map interactively 2 3 Viewing and Analysing the Data 25 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Distribution info provides information about the distributor of and options for obtaining the resource s Distribution info OnLine resource OnLine resource information about online sources from which the resource can be obtained URL piii ERR A Protocol El Web address URL gt Dropdown list of the type of protocol you want to provide as link or to download Description ES ix UT UE NU files from URL http localhost 8080 geonetwork srv en resources gd Protocol amp File for download File Description Di Ey OnLine resource 777 Browse to the folder whare the file URL you want to upload is stored Uploads the file Protocol foac Web Map Service ver 1 1 1 z Name E Cod Description E Figure 2 25 Distribution information Reference System Section The Spatial Reference System section defines metadata required to describe the spatial reference system of a dataset It contains one element to identify the name of the reference system used Using elements from the advanced form this section may be modified to provide more details on data projection ellip soid and datum
97. ith the datasets that provide the user with information related to the data described Remind the size of a single file to upload can t exceed 50 Mbytes 5 Click Upload and then Save OnLine resource 0000000000 06 6 6 06 6 0 amp 0 URL http localhost 8080 geonetwork srv en resources qe Protocol E File tor download Cie Bes Upload Description 59 Detailed text description of what the online resource is Figure 2 44 An online resource 2 5 6 Linking metadata Metadata records in ISO19139 could be related together based on ISO elements using for example parent identifier operates on element for service metadata Using GeoNetwork editor user could define 3 types of relation dataset metadata service metadata including a link to the data based on WMS layer name parent child relation e feature catalogue 18019110 dataset metadata ISO19139 All relations are described in the top right corner of the metadata The menu allows navigation from one record to the other Only metadata records visible to current user are displayed ie a metadata could be linked to another one but not displayed because not published for current user Parent child relation To create a child record editors could click on the other actions menu create child option in the search results Using this option parent identifier will be automatically set up when duplicating the record Editors could also link an existing metadata
98. itle Pd Abstract o E Sujet 0 0 0 Every b days hours minutes One run only PRIVILEGES Groups Intranet All Sample group Group View Interactive map Featured All 7 F Remove Sample group e 7 Remove CATEGORIES a Maps amp graphics Interactive resources Applications Photo Audio Video Figure 3 25 Adding a Catalogue Services for the Web harvesting node 3 5 Harvesting 91 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 HARVESTING MANAGEMENT Name URL http www mandei org oaipmh REMOTE Use account O o EM Password SEARCH CRITERIA O criteria From m e Uni L E e Set Prefix oaae a OPTIONS Every h kB kB days hours minutes One run only Validate n PRIVILEGES O 1 0 5 1H Sample group test Group View Interactive map Featured Samplegroup v n 7 Remove All jv UN Remove CATEGORIES Maps amp graphis Interactive resources Conference proceedings Photo Audio Video Figure 3 26 Adding an OAI PMH harvesting node 92 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 this drop down filled with all prefixes supported by the remote server you have to enter a valid URL and press the Retrieve Info button You can use the Add button to add one more search to the list A search can be removed clicking the icon on its left
99. l Tool A desktop application that allows administrators of a GeoNetwork catalog to perform a range of admin operations WebDAV Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning WebDAV is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP that allows users to edit and manage files collaboratively on remote World Wide Web servers OAI PMH Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting It is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative It is used to harvest or collect the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives WMS Web Map Service is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Inter net that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS database The specification was developed and first published by the Open Geospatial Consortium in 1999 126 Chapter 8 Glossary GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WFS Web Feature Service provides an interface allowing requests for geographical features across the web using platform independent calls One can think of geographical features as the source code behind a map WCS Web Coverage Service provides an interface allowing requests for geographical coverages across the web using platform independent calls The coverages are objects or images in a geographical area WPS Web Processing Service is designed to standardize the way that GIS calculations are made ava
100. last change date was different from the remote one Unchanged Local metadata left unchanged Their remote last change date did not change Unknown schema Number of skipped metadata because their format was not recognised by GeoNetwork Unretrievable Number of metadata that were ready to be retrieved from the remote server but for some reason there was an exception during the data 84 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 transfer process Bad Format Number of skipped metadata because they did not have a valid XML representation Does not validate Number of metadata which did not validate against their schema These metadata were harvested with success but skipped due to the validation process Usually there is an option to force validation if you want to harvest these metadata anyway simply turn it off Result vs harvesting type GeoNetwork WebDAV CSW OAI PMH OGC Service Total w Y w v w Added v v w iw Y Removed v w w v w Updated w v Y v Unchanged w w Ld v Unknown schema Y Ld Y w w Unretrievable v w v v v Bad Format Y v Does Not Validate Y v Thumbnails Thumbnails failed XX Metadata URL attribute used Result information supported by harvesting types 3 5 7 Adding new nodes The Add button in the main page allows you to add new harvesting nodes It will open the form shown in admin harvesting add When creating a new node you have to choose th
101. le search To better visualise the map through the map viewer click on Show Map on the top of search results panel 4 Graphic Overviews There are small and large overviews of the map used to properly evaluate usefulness of the data especially if the interactive map is not available Simply click on the small image to enlarge it 2 2 5 Privileges roles and user groups GeoNetwork uses a system of Privileges Roles and User groups There are no restrictions for users to search and access public information in a GeoNetwork opensource based catalogue To get access to restricted information or advanced functionality an account to log in is required This should be provided by the GeoNetwork administrator To log in simply go to the home page and enter your username and password in the dedicated fields on the top right corner then click the login button 2 2 Getting Started 17 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 z gt Search Reset Advanced e c3 Case studs best practices Conference proceedings Oetavets rectores rteractive resources Mags amp graphics Ocher information resources Photo Cabo dw August 2007 Localities in Victoria VMADMIN LOCALITY POLYGON Comprehensive Doments Cal Deyrs i Africe Semple record please Latas Open Day Photographe 260 remove Pysiogragh Mag of North and Central Eurasia Sample record please remove Mydrological besas in E
102. le Object Access Protocol is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks OGC Open Geospatial Consortium A standards organization for geospatial information systems http www opengeospatial org OSGeo The Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo is a non profit non governmental organi zation whose mission is to support and promote the collaborative development of open geospatial technologies and data http www osgeo org FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger http www fao org WFP World Food Programme of the United Nations is the food aid branch of the United Nations and the world s largest humanitarian organization http www wfp org UNEP The UN Environment Programme UNEP coordinates United Nations environmental activities assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally sound policies and encourages sustainable development through sound environmental practices http www unep org OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is designed to strengthen the UN s response to complex emergencies and natural disasters http ochaonline un org URL A Uniform Resource Locator specifies where an identified resource is available and the mecha nism for retrieving it GAST GeoNetwork Administrator Surviva
103. lling words from Precise 1 to Imprecise 0 2 through 3 more consecutive steps which are equal to 0 8 0 6 0 4 The WHERE parameters which are related to the spatial extent allow you as in the default search either to select your own area of interest or to select a predefined region from the drop down list In this section you can also type the geographic coordinates of a specific location that is not available from the above list To select your own area of interest drag and drop the frame of your area on the global map using the appropriate tool on the bottom left of the map screen To use free coordinates type the lat long geographic references in the appropriate fields around the map screen without any limitation of decimal figures To use the coordinates of a predefined region select the region from the drop down list Whatever type of geographic search you decide to perform in the Spatial search type field you can choose from different options is overlaps encloses is fully outside of If you use this field be cautious as this limits your output data as follows 2 2 Getting Started 11 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WHAT words Map type Search accuracy WHERE lat ma amp Q RR O long min long max at min Region IH WHEN gt Gm Reset Hide advanced options Restrict to Options Figure 2 6 Advanced search options 12 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoN
104. ly since the release of version 2 0 in December 2005 and the subsequent releases At present the user and developer mailing lists count well over 250 subscriptions each Subscription to these lists is open to anyone interested The archive of the mailing lists provides an important resource for users and can be freely browsed online Members provide feedback within the community and provide translations new functionalities bug reports fixes and instructions to the project as a whole Building a self sustaining community of users and developers is one of the biggest challenges for the project This community building process relies on active participation and interaction of its members It also relies on building trust and operating in a transparent manner thereby agreeing on the overall objectives prioritization and long term direction of the project A number of actions have been taken by the project team to facilitate this process The foundation for the establishment of a GeoNetwork Advisory Board was laid at the 2006 workshop in Rome and membership criteria were defined A work plan is presented and discussed at the yearly GeoNetwork workshop subsequently the plan is maintained and updated throughout the year where needed The project management team reports back to the advisory board about the reached developments and objectives during the annual workshops Two public Websites have been established One focuses on the users of the software
105. m Resource Locator address or similar addressing scheme such as http www statkart no isotc211 Maintenance and update frequency Frequency with which changes and additions are made to the re source after the initial resource is completed Metadata author Party responsible for the metadata information Metadata standard name Name of the metadata standard including profile name used Metadata standard version Version profile of the metadata standard used 114 Chapter 4 Glossary of Metadata Fields Description GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 OnLine resource Name Name of the online resource Geographic bounding box North bound latitude Northern most coordinate of the limit of the dataset extent expressed in latitude in decimal degrees positive north Grid spatial representation Number of dimensions Number of independent spatial temporal axes Distribution Info OnLine resource Information about online sources from which the resource can be obtained Point of Contact Organisation name Name of the responsible organisation Other constraints Other restrictions and legal prerequisites for accessing and using the resource Point of contact Identification of and means of communication with person s and organisations s associated with the resource s Point of contact Position name Role or position of the responsible person Postal code ZIP or other postal code Presentation form Mode in which the resource is repre
106. m a v2 0 server requires this harvesting type This harvesting type is deprecated 5 23950 Remote search Not implemented This is a placeholder 3 5 Harvesting 85 Geo Network User Manual Release 2 6 4 6 7 OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2 0 This is a good harvesting protocol that is widely used among libraries GeoNetwork implements version 2 0 of the protocol ArcSDE This is a harvesting protocol for metadata stored in an ArcSDE installation The drop down list shows all available protocols Pressing the Add button you will reach an edit page whose content depends on the chosen protocol The Back button will go back to the main page Add This Harvesting management Figure 3 22 Adding a new harvesting node ing a GeoNetwork node type of harvesting allows you to connect to a GeoNetwork node perform a simple search as in the main page and retrieve all matched metadata The search is useful because it allows you to focus only on metadata of interest Once you add a node of this type you will get a page like the one shown below The meaning of the options is the following Site Here you put information about the GeoNetwork s node you want to harvest from host port and servlet If you want to search protected metadata you have to specify an account The name parameter is just a short description that will be shown in the main page beside each node Search criteria In this section you can speci
107. metadata created by this harvester Options Please see WebDAV harvesting Privileges Please see WebDAV harvesting Category for service Metadata for the harvested service is linked to the category selected for the service usually interactive resources Category for datasets For each dataset the category for datasets is linked to each metadata for datasets Adding an ArcSDE server The ArcSDE harvester allows harvesting metadata from an ArcSDE installation ArcSDE java API libraries are required to be installed by the user in GeoNetwork folder INSTALL DIR web geonetwork WEB INF lib as these are proprietary libraries not distributed with GeoNetwork e jpe sdk jar jsde_sdk jar Note dummy api XXX jar must be removed from INSTALL DIR web geonetwork WEB INF lib The harvester identifies the ESRI metadata format ESRI ISO ESRI FGDC to apply the required xslts to transform metadata to ISO19139 Configuration options Site Name This is a short description of the node It will be shown in the harvesting main page Server ArcSde server IP or name Port ArcSde service port tipically 5151 Username Username to connect to ArcSDE server 94 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 HARVESTING MANAGEMENT SITE Name Server Po Username ge 2 Password Database Icon e default gif y OPTIONS Every o days
108. meters that cannot be changed through the web interface can usually be changed using the GAST application Important Configuration of these parameters is critically important for a proper functioning of the GeoNetwork catalogue in an operational context Failing to properly change these settings may result in a system that does not function as expected For example downloads may fail to be correctly processed or metadata harvesting from other servers may not work To get to the System configuration you must be logged on as administrator first Open the Administra tion page and select System configuration The link is surrounded with a red rectangle Important New installations of GeoNetwork use admin for both username and password It is impor tant to change this from the Administration page once you logged on Clicking the page s link you will get the set of parameters that you can change Here follows a detailed description of them At the bottom of the page there are some buttons with the following purpose Back Simply returns to the main administration page Save Saves the current options If some options are invalid the system will show a dialogue with the wrong parameter and will focus its text field on the page Once the configuration is saved a success dialogue will be shown Refresh This button simply refreshes the displayed options taking the new values from the server This can be useful if some options get changed dynamically
109. ntation form mapbDigital Abstract brief narrative summary of the content of your esource Figure 2 38 The thumbnail wizard button 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 37 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 THUMBNAIL MANAGEMENT N S not tantra Ct ad avail gt Scale image 180 pixel cale width Scale height Eden o sos Te TA Scale image 800 pixel i Scale width Scale height Baki to o editing Figure 2 39 Thumbnail wizard 38 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 THUMBA ATL MANAGEMENT p 1 Small thumbnail thumbnail_s png e Delete AE um gt y Figure 2 40 Completed thumbnail wizard 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 39 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 5 4 Linking WMS online resources Metadata records in ISO19139 could be related to resources defined in WMS services When searching metadata that has related WMS online resources the Interactive Map button is displayed to load the WMS layer s in the map viewer A WMS online resource can be referenced in metadata like Selecting protocol OCG WMS Web Map Capabilities 1 1 1 or OCG WMS Web Map Capa bilities 1 3 0 1 URL Url of WMS service 2 Name of the resource empty OnLine resource URL http geonetwork3 fao org ows 296 Protocol OGC WMS Capabilities service ver 1 1 1 Description x Figur
110. odify delete and show thesauri Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks Allows to change some system s parameters Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Coptmiz This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Add sample metadata Figure 3 18 How to reach the batch import page metadata set will be fully imported or fully discarded there are no partial imports Files that starts with 7 or that do not end with xml are ignored Structured import An hidden feature of the batch import is the possibility to specify some import parameters in more detail This feature is triggered when the specified folder contains the import config xml file When this happen this file is read and the standard import switches to the structured one The import config xml file has a config root element with the following children 1 categoryMapping 1 this element specifies the mapping of directories to categories a mapping 0 n This element can appear 0 or more times and maps one directory name to a category name It must have a dir attribute that indicates the directory and a to attribute that indicates the category name b default 1 This element specifies a default mapping of categories for all directories that do not match the other mapping elements It must have only the to attribu
111. of the search criteria Type The type of OGC service indicates if the harvester has to query for a specific kind of service Supported type are WMS 1 0 0 and 1 1 1 WES 1 0 0 and 1 1 0 WCS 1 0 0 and WPS 0 4 0 and 1 0 0 3 5 Harvesting 93 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Service URL The service URL 1s the URL of the service to contact without parameters like REQUEST GetCapabilities VERSION It has to be a valid URL like http your preferred ogcservice type wms Metadata language Required field that will define the language of the metadata It should be the language used by the web service administrator ISO topic category Used to populate the metadata It is recommended to choose on as the topic is mandatory for the ISO standard if the hierarchical level is datasets Type of import Defines if the harvester should only produce one service metadata record or if it should loop over datasets served by the service and produce also metadata for each datasets For each dataset the second checkbox allow to generate metadata for the dataset using an XML document referenced in the MetadataUrl attribute of the dataset in the GetCapability document If this document is loaded but it is not valid ie unknown schema bad XML format the GetCapability document is used For WMS thumbnails could be created during harvesting con The default icon displayed as attribution logo for
112. or specific metadata records the Transfer Ownership option is available It is located in the Administration page and once selected leads to the following page ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Metadata insert Batch Import Search for Unused Transfer ownership Template Sort Templates Add templates Personal info Change password Change user information Administration User management Group management Category management Manage thesauri Harvesting management System configuration Localization Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n CSW ISO Profile test Sample metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer metadata ownership to another user Sort your templates Add default templates iso19139 119 Jiso19110 dublin core fgdc std Jall Add templates Allow current user to change password Allow current user to change user information Add modify delete and show users Add modify delete and show groups Add modify delete and show categories Add modify delete and show thesauri Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks Allows to change some system s parameters Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Optimize This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to ha
113. ou should log in and select the appropriate option from the Administration page The main part of the page Import XML Formatted Metadata that is displayed is the Metadata text area where the user can paste the XML metadata to import Below this there is the Type choice which allows you select the type of record that you are going to create Metadata Template and Subtem plate Then you can apply a stylesheet to convert your metadata input from ArcCatalog8 to ISO1915 or from ISO19115 to ISO19139 if required Otherwise you can just leave none selected The Destina tion schema list provides you with four options to choose the final standard layout for your metadata 18019115 IS019139 FGDC and Dublin Core Finally you should select the Group as main group in charge of the metadata and the Category that you want to assign to your metadata By clicking the Insert button the metadata is imported into the system please note that all links to external files for instance to thumbnails or data for download have to be removed from the metadata input to avoid any conflict within the data repository If your metadata is already in ISO19115 format the main actions to be performed are the following 1 Paste the XML file that contains the metadata information in the Metadata text area 2 Select Metadata as type of record that you are going to create 2 6 Uploading a New Record using the XML Metadata Insert Tool 49 GeoNetwork User Manual Release
114. oud cover weather climate atmospheric conditions climate change precipitation Earth Surface Characteristics and Land Cover Earth Cover Business and Economic Information Economic activities conditions and employment Economy Elevation Elevation and Derived Products Height above or below sea level Environment Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Environmental resources protection and conservation Agriculture and Farming Rearing of animals and or cultivation of plants Geoscientific information Geologic and Geophysical Information Information pertaining to earth sciences NENNEN GREEN wildlife vegetation biological sciences ecology wilderness sea life wetlands habitat Administrative boundaries political and administrative boundaries NDYL Drought Floods production labour revenue commerce industry tourism and ecotourism forestry fisheries commercial or subsistence hunting exploration and exploitation of resources such as minerals oil and gas altitude bathymetry digital elevation models slope derived products Digital Elevation Model environmental pollution waste storage and treatment environmental impact assessment monitoring environmental risk nature reserves landscape agriculture irrigation aquaculture plantations herding pests and diseases affecting crops and livestock Agriculture Crop Production Livestock geophysical features
115. oup management Ca management Manage thesauri Harvesting management em configuration notifications Localization Stopwords Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n CSW ISO Profile test Sample metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for unused or empty metadata my metadata Transfer metadata ownership to another user Sort your templates Add default templates O iso19139 119 O is019110 O dublin core Q fgdc std O all Allow current user to change password Allow current user to change user information Add modify delete and show users Add modify delete and show groups Add modify delete and show categories Add modify delete and show thesauri Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks Allows to change some system s parameters remote updates Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc You can define the languages for which stopwords are used CSW Server configuration This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Add sample metadata CSW SERVER CONFIGURATION Enable Inserted metadata is public Transaction Contact admin admin admin English 4 CSW for testing A H A aa g 3 3 OGC C
116. plate Metadata insert Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Batch Import Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for Unused Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer ownership Transfer metadata ownership to another user Template Sort Templates Sort your templates Add templates Add default templates 115019139 119 2is019110 O dublin core C fgdc std Cail Add templates Personal info Change password Allow current user to change password Change user information Allow current user to change user information Administration User management Add modify delete and show users f man Add modify delete and show groups Category management Add modify delete and show categories Manage thesauri Add modify delete and show thesauri in n Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks System configuration Allows to change some system s parameters Localization Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Rebuild Lucene index Rebuild Optimize Lucene index Optimize Test i 8n This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI CSW ISO Profile test Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Sample metadata Add sample metadata Figure 3 9 Administration page 2 Select Add a new group You may want to rename or remove the Sample group 3 Fill out the details The email address will be used to send feedback on data downloads when they oc
117. possibly inclusive of the legend To create a thumbnail go to the editing menu for your map If you are no longer in editing mode retrieve the map from one of the search options then click on Edit Then follow these simple steps From the editing menu click on the Thumbnails button on the top or bottom of the page You will be taken to the Thumbnail Management wizard To create a small or large thumbnail click on the Browse button next to either one It is recom mended that you use 180 pixels for small thumbnails and 800x600 for large thumbnails Using the Large thumbnail option allows you to create both a small and large thumbnail in one go You can use GIF PNG and JPEG images as input for the thumbnails A pop up window will appear allowing you to browse your files on your computer Select the file you wish to create a thumbnail with by double clicking on it Click on Add Your thumbnail will be added and displayed on the following page You can then click on Back to Editing and save your record 36 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 afuibies a c e ques an View errors only Creation iw Compliance to metadata standard XML Schema 8 errors 6 cvc datatype valid 1 2 1 is not a valid value for integer Date gco Date Element gco Integer with parent element gmd numberOfDimensions E 3 O i 0 cvc type 3 1 3 The value
118. privileges The All group has different policies from all the others 1 Copy Privileges are copied 86 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 HARVESTING MANAGEMENT SEARCH CRITERIA PRIVILEGES CATEGORIES Case studies best practices Photo Name vos Port Servlet Use account 7 Password X Criteria Freetext Tite E Abstract id Keywords id Digital Hardcopy Source y Every lo days hours minutes Onerunonly Remote group Copy policy all Copy to Intranet group y sample Copy Retrieve groups Audio Video Other information resources Figure 3 23 Adding a GeoNetwork node 3 5 Harvesting GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 Copy to Intranet Privileges are copied but to the Intranet group This way public metadata can be made protected 3 Don t copy Privileges are not copied and harvested metadata will not be publicly visi ble For all other groups the policies are these 1 Copy Privileges are copied only if there is a local group with the same not localised name as the remote group 2 Create and copy Privileges are copied If there is no local group with the same name as the remote group then it is created 3 Don t copy Privileges are not copied Adding a WebDAV node In this type of harvesting metadata are retrieved from a remote web page The available options
119. r information resources Photo Ox Geoscience Australu s Open Day Photographs 26 gt August 2007 Localities i Victoria VMAOMIN LOCALITY POLYGON Comprehensive Clements Hydrological Basins in Africa Sample record please remove P wyographic Map of North aed Central Corasia Sample record please remove Mydrologca basis in Europe Gobaily threatened species of the word Natural polar ecosystems GeoNetwork Geographic data sharing for ev EE MEE I Dow mon FINO INTERACTIVE MAPS GIS DATASETS SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RELATED APPLICATIONS Agoregute Results matching search certera 1 7 7 page 1 1 O selected Select ai cone LO WYOROLOGICAL BASINS IN AFRICA SAMPLE RECORD PLEASE REMOVE lego Abstract Major ycrolog ai bats and ther pud ems Th Gataset Guides t e Arcas concert according to Es hydrological Characteristics The dataset consists of the following information meral Keywores watersheds river batis water resources hydrology AQUASTAT AWRD Africa COPHYSIOGRAPHIC MAP OF NORTH AND CENTRAL EURASIA SAMPLE RECORD lego PLEASE REMOVE Abstract Phyvograghic mags for the CIS and Bale States CIS 85 Mongolia China and Taisan Province of Ouna Between the tree regions Ouna Mongoba ang CI 85 countries OCW bouncanes were introooc Keywords Shy bogranhy sol Crane iaa cm sitne p COLOCALITIES IN VICTORIA VMADMIN LOCALITY POLYGON COMPREHENSIVE ign Xem Ab
120. ramme WFP joined the project and with its contribution the first version of the software was re leased in 2003 and operational catalogues were established in FAO and WFP The system was based on the ISO19115 DIS metadata standard and embedded the Web Map Client InterMap that supported Open Geospatial Consortium OGC compliant Web Map Services Distributed searches were possible using the standard Z39 50 catalogue protocol At that moment it was decided to develop the program as a Free and Open Source Software to allow the whole geospatial users community to benefit from the development results and to contribute to the further advancement of the software Jointly with the UN Environmental Programme UNEP FAO developed a second version in 2004 The new release allowed users to work with multiple metadata standards ISO 19115 FGDC and Dublin Core in a transparent manner It also allowed metadata to be shared between catalogues through a caching mechanism improving reliability when searching in multiple catalogues In 2006 the GeoNetwork team dedicated efforts to develop a DVD containing the GeoNetwork version 2 0 3 and the best free and open source software in the field of Geoinformatics The DVD was produced and distributed in hard copy to over three thousand people and is now also available for download from the GeoNetwork Community website GeoNetwork opensource is the result of the collaborative development of many contributors These in clud
121. raphic dataset The metadata profile is organised in sections and the most important illustrated in main sections are the Identification Section Distribution Section Reference System Section Data Quality Section and Metadata Section These sections are described here in details Identification Section This section includes information on the citation of the resource title date of creation or publication edition presentation form the abstract the purpose and the present status of the resource that can be defined among the options completed historical archive obsolete ongoing planned required or under development This section also contains information about the person or organisation responsible for the data and who is considered to be a point of contact for the resource i e the dataset owner originator distributor pub lisher etc and it provides information on data maintenance i e annually monthly daily not planned as needed etc Elements for keywords and for describing restrictions on data access and use are also included in this section in addition to spatial representation info like data type vector raster text table etc The identification section provides information about the scale the language and character set used within the resource and the list of SO categories through which your map could be classified 20 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Identifica
122. rator 3 6 2 Access policy A public metadata is a metadata that has the view privilege for the group named all Visualisation An administrator can view any metadata A reviewer can view a metadata if 1 The metadata owner is member of one of the groups assigned to the reviewer 2 She he is the metadata owner A user administrator or an editor can view 1 All metadata that has the view privilege selected for one of the groups she he is member of 2 All metadata created by her him A registered user can view 1 All metadata that has the view privilege selected for one of the groups she he is member of Public metadata can be viewed by any user logged in or not Editing An administrator can edit any metadata A reviewer can edit a metadata if 96 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 1 The metadata owner is member of one of the groups assigned to the reviewer 2 She he is the metadata owner A User Administrator or an Editor can only edit metadata she he created 3 6 3 Privileges The Privileges administration page is accessible only by 1 All Administrators 2 All Reviewers that are member of one of the groups assigned to the metadata owner 3 The Owner of the metadata Privileges for the All and Intranet groups can only be edited by Administrators and Reviewers 3 6 4 Transfer Ownership When metadata ownership needs to be transferred from one user to another for all
123. reation or publication date To specify a range of time click on the date selector button next to From To fields Make use of the symbols gt and gt gt on top of the calendar to select the month and the year first and then click on the exact day a complete date will be filled in using the following standard order YY MM DD To clean the time fields simply click on the white cross on their right the box Any will be automatically selected and the search will be performed without any restriction on the time period Finally the advanced search allows you to apply further restrictions on the basis of additional parameters as data source data categories and data format To limit your queries to only one Catalogue out of those made available by the installation through the harvesting process highlight the catalogue of preference or just keep Any selected to search all sites To search for data organised by Category such as Applications Datasets etc simply highlight the category you wish to search in from the related drop down list otherwise we suggest to leave 14 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WHEN anytime Metadata change date From To a Temporal Extent From Ex To 4 Figure 2 10 When section in the Advanced search this field in Any Category You can search for Digital or Hard Copy maps To search in one or the other simply check the box next to the one you
124. record using the parent identifier displayed in the advanced view metadata section Clicking on the Add or update parent metadata section on the metadata relation 42 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 PLEASE REMOVE fides the African continent according to wing information numerical AT AWRD Africa list will move to this view Then editors should use the to expand the parent identifier and click on the field to open the metadata selection panel Once the parent selected it will appear in the metadata relation list on the top right corner of the editor ner actions J Parent child metadata Hydrological Besins in Africa Sample record please remove Hydrological Besins m Ghana s Update children If a metadata record has children attached the editor suggest the children update mechanism which propagate changes from a parent to all its children The following interface define the configuration of the propagation Update children x MORE DETAILS Update all children related to current metadata record Select the strategy to be applied on each o Replace sections Add sections Contaci O main sections Identification info Point of contact Add will preserve child section and add the parent E Descriptive keywords equivalent section after the child ones Replace will Selo remove child section by parent equivalent section Metadata maintenance Ch
125. requests Host The proxy s name or address to use usually an IP address Port The proxy s port to use Username optional a username should be provided if the proxy server requires authentication Password optional a password should be provided if the proxy server requires authentication 64 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 PROXY Use v Figure 3 3 The proxy configuration options Email amp notification Feedback GeoNetwork can sometimes send email for example if a metadata is downloaded or if a user provides feedback using the online form You have to configure the mail server GeoNetwork should use in order to enable it to send email FEEDBACK email id REMOVED METADATA Directory data removed Figure 3 4 The mail server configuration options Email This is the email address that will be used to send the email the From address SMTP host the mail server address to use when sending email SMTP port the mail server SMTP port usually 25 Removed metadata Defines the directory used to store a backup of metadata and data after a delete action This directory is used as a backup directory to allow system administrators to recover metadata and possibly related data after erroneous deletion By default the removed directory is created under the data folder Authentication In this section you define the source against which GeoNetwork will authenticate users and pa
126. rising its publication 4 Editor Profile The editor works on metadata with following privileges Full rights on creating editing deleting new old data within the own group 5 Registered User Profile The Registered User has more access privileges than non authenticated Guest users Right to download protected data 3 3 OGC CSW Server configuration When using Open Geospatial Catalogue Service for the Web OGC CSW service a client will ask for a description of the service This description provided in the form of a GetCapabilities document describes the main service s properties The CSW server section allows configuration of the following CSW properties Enable This option allows you to start or stop the CSW services If this option is disabled other catalogues cannot connect to the node using CSW protocol Inserted metadata is public By default metadata inserted with CSW Transaction operation is not public viewable unless a user with proper rights sets later the metadata permissions to be public viewable If this option is checked all metatada inserted with CSW Transation is public viewable by default 72 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Metadata New metadata Metadata insert Batch Import Search for Unused My Metadata Transfer ownership Template Sort Templates Add templates Personal info Change password Change user information Administration User management Gr
127. rmation This section guides you through the process of adding new records new data with information into the GeoNetwork catalogue using either the online metadata editor or the advanced metadata insert tool based on XML documents In both cases you will use the template system add thumbnails upload data link to services and set access privileges to the metadata and data To add or edit data and metadata you must be registered as an Editor into the work group you want to add records to Contact your administrator if you are not a registered editor for your work group For the metadata creation using the online editor GNos provides a set of simplified metadata templates based on the cited standards ISO FGDC and DC The templates for vector and raster based on the ISO 19139 are the preferred ones since they are devised in a way that hides the complexity of the ISO19115 standard in the default view At the same time those templates are extensible with new elements to fit specialized needs through the advanced view To produce a good metadata record always try to gather as much details as possible on the resource that you want to describe taking into account the metadata elements that have been presented in the previous chapter The next step is to fill out properly the fields provided by the metadata templates while at the same time avoiding duplication of information throughout the form The most important fields that may not be waived while
128. rograms 4 Click Start gt Programs gt GeoNetwork desktop gt Start server to start the Geonetwork opensource Web server The first time you do this the system will require about 1 minute to complete startup 5 Click Start gt Programs gt Geonetwork desktop gt Open GeoNetwork opensource to start using GeoNetwork opensource or connect your Web browser to http localhost 8080 geonetwork Installation using the platform independent installer If you downloaded the platform independent installer a jar file you can in most cases start the installer by simply double clicking on it Follow the instructions on screen see also the section called On Windows At the end of the installation process you can choose to save the installation script Figure Save the installation script for commandline installations Commandline installation If you downloaded the platform independent installer a jar file you can perform commandline in stallations on computers without a graphical interface You first need to generate an install script see Figure Save the installation script for commandline installations This install script can be edited in a text editor to change some installation parameters To run the installation from the commandline issue the following command in a terminal window and hit enter to start java jar geonetwork install 2 2 0 0 jar install xml Starting automated installation Starting to unpack Processing p
129. s Es User User Guest ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template XML Metadata Insert Import XML formatted metadata Personal info Change password Allow current user to change password Change user information Allow current user to change user information Administration Figure 2 30 Administration panel 2 4 Adding new Data and Information 29 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 3 From the metadata creation page select the metadata standard to use from the dropdown list Figure 4 3 Template selection METADATA CREATION Template Template for Dublin Core Group Template for Dublin Core Template for FGDC Template for Raster data in 15019139 Template for Vector data in 15019139 preferred Figure 2 31 Template selection 4 After selecting the correct template you should identify which group of users the metadata will belong to and finally click on Create METADATA CREATION AEREO Sample group SOC a a ae a ee ee ee Figure 2 32 Group selection 5 A new metadata form based on the selected template will be displayed for you to fill out 2 4 3 Switching Editing Views from Default to Advanced to XML View Once you create a new record you can choose between Default Advanced or XML View To switch view simply click on the view you want to switch to on the left column of the page The view in bold is the view you are
130. sation or individual File identifier Unique identifier for this metadata file Vector spatial representation Geometric object type Name of point and vector spatial objects used to locate zero one and two dimensional spatial locations in the dataset Vector spatial representation Geometric object count Total number of the point or vector object type occurring in the dataset Geographic bounding box Geographic position of the dataset Grid spatial representation Information about grid spatial objects in the dataset Grid spatial representation Resolution value Degree of detail in the grid dataset Grid spatial representation Transformation parameter availability Indication of whether or not parameters for transformation exists Data Quality Hierarchy level Hierarchical level of the data specified by the scope Identification info Basic information about the resource s to which the metadata applies Point of Contact Individual name Name of the responsible person surname given name title sepa rated by a delimiter Keyword Commonly used word s or formalised word s or phrase s used to describe the subject Data Language Language used for documenting data Metadata Language Language used for documenting metadata Data Quality Lineage Non quantitative quality information about the lineage of the data specified by the scope Mandatory if report not provided OnLine resource Linkage Location address for on line access using a Unifor
131. sented OnLine resource Protocol Connection protocol to be used Purpose Summary of the intentions with which the resource s was developed Reference system info Description of the spatial and temporal reference systems used in the dataset Data Data Quality Report Quantitative quality information for the data specified by the scope Mandatory if lineage not provided Grid spatial representation Resolution value Degree of detail in the grid dataset Point of contact Role Function performed by the responsible party Geographic bounding box South bound latitude Southern most coordinate of the limit of the dataset extent expressed in latitude in decimal degrees positive north Spatial representation info Digital representation of spatial information in the dataset Spatial representation type Method used to spatially represent geographic information Data Quality Statement General explanation of the data producer s knowledge about the lineage of a dataset Status Status of the resource s Supplemental Information Any other descriptive information about the dataset Temporal Extent Time period covered by the content of the dataset Title Name by which the cited resource is known Topic category code High level geographic data thematic classification to assist in the grouping and search of available geographic data sets Can be used to group keywords as well Listed examples are not exhaustive NOTE It is understood there are overlaps be
132. ser Manual Release 2 6 4 ADMINISTRATION Metadata New metadata Adds a new metadata into geonetwork copying it from a template Import metadata record in XML or MEF format Batch Import Import all XML formatted metadata from a local directory Search for Unused Search for unused or empty metadata Transfer ownership Transfer metadata ownership to another user Template Sort Templates Sort your templates Add templates Add default templates 7i5019139 119 7is019110 O dublin core O fgdc std Jal Add templates Personal info Change password Allow current user to change password Change user information Allow current user to change user information Administration User management Add modify delete and show users Group management Add modify delete and show groups te man Jal Add modify delete and show categories Manage thesauri Add modify delete and show thesauri H tin n Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks System confiquration Allows to change some system s parameters Localization Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Test i18n This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI CSW ISO Profile test Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Sample metadata Add sample metadata Insert mode File Upload Copy Paste File type 9 single File XML SLD WMC MEF file
133. sswords By default users are authenticated against info held in the GeoNetwork database When the GeoNetwork database is used as the authentication source the user self registation function can be enabled 3 1 Basic configuration 65 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 AUTHENTIC ATION Login uses a GeoMetwork Database Prem LDAP Allow other users to login from L Shibboleth Figure 3 5 Authentication configuration options You may choose to authenticate logins against either the GeoNetwork database tables or LDAP the lightweight directory access protocol but not both The next section describes how to authenticate against LDAP In addition to either of these options you may also configure other authentication sources At present Shibboleth is the only additional authentication source that can be configured Shibboleth is typically used for national access federations such as the Australian Access Federation Configuring shibboleth authentication in GeoNetwork to use such a federation would allow not only users from a local database or LDAP directory to use your installation but any user from such a federation LDAP Authentication The section defines how to connect to an LDAP authentication system AUTHENTIC ATION Login uses O GeoNetwork Database LDAP Host Port 389 Default profile Registered user v Distinguished names Base dc fao dc org Users ou people User s attributes Name n Prof
134. stract This Cataset is the Gefintive set of locality boundaries for the state of Victoria as Cefined by Local Government and regatered by the Registrar of Geographic Names The bound Keywords BOUNDARIES Aderuristratve LANO Owners no Metadata Figure 2 12 Search results 16 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 quick by just clicking the download button or by using the proper link in the specific metadata section for distribution info in the full metadata view OHYDROLOGICAL BASINS IN AFRICA SAMPLE RECORD PLEASE REMOVE Logo Abstract Major hydrological basins and their sub basins This dataset divides the African continent according to its hydrological characteristics The dataset consists of the following information numerical Keywords watersheds river basins water resources hydrology AQUASTAT AWRD Africa Metadata Figure 2 13 A single search result Distribution Information Name ShapeFile Version Grass Version 6 1 Transfer options OnLine resource Data for download Hydr ical ns in Afri file F Interactive Map Hydr ical ins in Af OGC WMS Server http geonetwork3 fao org ows 296 View in Google Earth Figure 2 14 Available services related to the resource 3 Interactive Map The map service is also optional When this button is shown an interactive map for this layer is available and by default it will be displayed on the map screen of the simp
135. t your map that can help the user to better understand its content Distribution Info Enter information about the distributor and about options for obtaining your map Online Resource Enter information about online resources for the map such as where a user may download it etc This information should include a link the link type protocol and a description of the resource Reference System Info Enter information about the spatial reference system of your map The default view contains one element to provide the alphanumeric value identifying the reference system used GNos uses the EPSG codes which are numeric codes associated with coordinate system definitions For instance EPSG 4326 is Geographic lat long WGS84 and EPSG 32611 is UTM zone 11 North WGSS84 Using elements from the advanced view you may add more details on data projection ellip soid and datum Note that if this information is provided a reference system identifier is not mandatory Data Quality Specify the hierarchal level of the data dataset series dataset features attributes etc and provide a general explanation on the production processes lineage used for creating the data The statement element is mandatory if the hierarchical level element is equal to dataset or series Detailed 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 35 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 information on completeness logical consistency and positional thematic and temporal a
136. tarts by scanning the provided directory This can contain beside the import config xml file only subdirectories which name will be ignored but used only as a container Inside each directory there is another level made only by directories that represent a metadata grouping for categories Each directory name will be used as the dir attribute in the mapping scheme previously described 3 5 Harvesting 3 5 1 Introduction Since the beginning of the project there has been the need to share metadata among several GeoNetwork nodes Usually each node takes care of a region of interest so it is important to be able to perform a search over all these nodes at the same time This is called distributed search and exploits the Internet 3 5 Harvesting 79 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 connectivity In our cases this distributed search can be heavy to perform if there are many maps with associated thumbnails Furthermore GeoNetwork is usually employed in areas like Africa Asia where the connectivity can be limited making the use of distributed search not feasible Harvesting is the process of collecting remote metadata and storing them locally for a faster access This is a periodic process to do for example once a week Harvesting is not a simple import local and remote metadata are kept aligned Using some magic one GeoNetwork node is capable of discovering metadata that have been added removed or updated in the remote node
137. te 2 schemaMapping 1 this element specifies the mapping of directories to metadata schemas a mapping 0 n This element can appear O or more times and maps one directory to the schema name that must be used when importing The provided schema must match the one used by the metadata contained into the specified directory which must all have the same schema It must have a dir attribute that indicates the directory and a to attribute that indicates the schema name 78 Chapter 3 Administration GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 IMPORT ALL XML FORMATTED METADATA FROM A LOCAL DIRECTORY Directory aoi ears Single File XML SLD WMC MEF file O Import actions 8 No action on import O Overwrite metadata with same UUID Generate UUID for inserted metadata Validate O catego Figure 3 19 The batch import options b default 1 default behaviour to use when all other mapping elements do not match It must have only the to attribute Here is an example of the import config xml file config lt categoryMapping gt lt mapping dir 1 to maps gt lt mapping dir 3 to datasets gt mapping dir 6 to interactiveResources gt lt mapping dir 30 to photo gt lt default to maps gt lt categoryMapping gt lt schemaMapping gt mapping dir 3 to fgdc std gt lt default to dublin core gt lt schemaMapping gt lt config gt The import procedure s
138. ther GeoNetwork nodes to perform hierarchical harvesting This way a metadata can be harvested from several nodes For example consider this scenario 1 Node A has created metadata a 2 Node B harvests a from A 3 Node C harvests a from B 4 Node D harvests from both A B and C In this scenario Node D will get the same metadata a from all 3 nodes A B C The metadata will flow to D following 3 different paths but thanks to its UUID only one copy will be stored When a will be changed in A a new version will flow to D but thanks to the change date the copy in D will be updated with the most recent version 3 5 5 General notes and issues General 1 The harvesting engine does not store harvesting results This implies that if the server is restarted the last results are lost 2 Changes to the harvesting parameters for example privileges and categories are taken into ac count in the next harvesting run GeoNetwork harvesting type 1 During harvesting site icons are harvested and local copies updated Icons are propagated to new nodes as soon as these nodes harvest from this one 2 The metadata UUID is taken from the info xml file of the MEF bundle Any UUID stored inside the metadata will be overwritten with this one 3 5 Harvesting 81 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WebDAV harvesting type 1 The same metadata could be harvested several times by different harv
139. tion Administration User management Add modify delete and show users Group management Add modify delete and show groups Category management Add modify delete and show categories Manage thesauri Add modify delete and show thesauri Harvesting management Add modify delete start stop harvesting tasks System confiquration Allows to change some system s parameters Localization Allows to change localized entities like groups categories etc Rebuild Lucene index Optimize Lucene index Optimize Test i18n This service should help GeoNetwork opensource developers to have up to date localized files for the GUI CSW ISO Profile test Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Sample metadata Figure 3 20 How to access the harvesting main page 5 Errors This column reflects the status of the last harvesting run which could have succeeded or not The result is reflected on this icon and a tool tip will show detailed information Every The time in days hours minutes between two consecutive harvesting from this node Last run The date in ISO 8601 format of the most recent harvesting run Operation A list of buttons for all possible operations on a node Dx 1 9 Selecting Edit will allow you to change the parameters for a node HARVESTING MANAGEMENT Select Name Type Status Errors Every Last run Operation Davtest Web DAV 9 A oss Edit FAO site GeoNetwork 9 Y 0 1 30 Edit CSW csw20 Y o 1 30 Edit Figure 3
140. tion info Identification info l Po basic information about the resource s to which the metadata applies mandatory Date SL Date type Publication Abstract The 15019115 metadata standard is the preferred metadata standard to use If unsure Maintenance and update asNeeded frequency Language Enalish Character set utfs Topic category code boundaries Distribution info provides information about the distributor of and options for obtaining the resource s Distribution info OnLine resource OnLine resource http localhost 8080 geonetwork srv en resources get id213 amp fname amp access privatt Reference system info Reference system info 5i adn description of the spatial and temporal reference systems used in the dataset Data quality info Data quality info PO Hierarchy level provides overall assessment of quality of a resource s Metadata info Metadat I d s q apes information about the metadata itself File identifier mandatory Language igi 7o Character set utf8 Date stamp 2007 10 25T18 03 03 Metadata standard name ISO 19115 2003 19139 Metadata standard version 1 0 Metadata author Figure 2 18 Main metadata sections 2 3 Viewing and Analysing the Data 21 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Identification info basic information about the resaurce s ta which the metadata applies mandatory Identification info A
141. traints Ref system Distribution Data quality Content Info Ext Info XML view EEE Language English File identifier 85813034 3879 4cb3 8756 80465ee1cObf Figure 2 34 Advanced view The XML View shows the entire content of the metadata in the original hierarchical structure different colors allow to distinguish between an element s name and its value The XML structure is composed of tags and to every tag must correspond a closing tag The content is entirely contained withing the two i e gmd language lt gco CharacterString gt eng lt gco CharacterString gt lt gmd language gt Nevertheless the use of the XML view requires some knowledge of the XML language Both the Default and the Advanced Views are composed of mandatory conditional and optional metadata fields The meaning of mandatory and optional is fairly intuitive the manda tory fields are required like Title and Abstract for instance whereas the optional fields can be provided but are not fundamental depending on the metadata author The conditional fields may be con sidered mandatory under certain circumstances essentially a conditional requirement indicates that the 2 4 Adding new Data and Information 31 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Advanced view Categorie HYDROLOGICAL BASINS IN AFRICA lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gmd MD Metadata xmlins gmds http www i 0tc211 0rg 2005 gmd xmlns xsim http ww
142. tructuredText format using the Sphinx framework to ensure version ing and support of multiple output formats e g HTML and PDF 2 1 Geographic Information Management for all 7 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 2 Getting Started Please make sure you have opened the home page of the GeoNetwork based catalogue If you installed the software on your local machine and started it the default URL is http localhost 8080 geonetwork There are many different ways to search the catalogue for maps and other geographic data This guide will introduce you to the most popular search methods default advanced and by category Whichever search you choose remember that you will see results based on your privileges and assigned work group privileges Note The term data in this application refers to datasets maps tables documents etc that are linked to the metadata of a specific record 2 2 1 Default Search The default search allows you to search text within the entire record such as keywords of the metadata and or geographic location Free text search Type a search term in the What field You can type anything here free text You can use quotes around text to find exact combinations of words Text and operators and or not are not case sensitive WHAT WHERE d SSA Search Reset Advanced Options Figure 2 1 The free text field 8 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Man
143. tween general categories and the user is encouraged to select the one most appropriate Grid spatial representation Transformation parameter availability Indication of whether or not parameters for transformation exists 115 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Vector spatial representation Topology level Code which identifies the degree of complexity of the spatial relationships Type Subject matter used to group similar keywords URL Unified Resource Locator Use constraints Constraints applied to assure the protection of privacy or intellectual property and any special restrictions or limitations or warnings on using the resource Vector spatial representation Information about the vector spatial objects in the dataset Voice Telephone number by which individuals can speak to the responsible organisation or individual Geographic bounding box West bound longitude Western most coordinate of the limit of the dataset extent expressed in longitude in decimal degrees positive east 116 Chapter 4 Glossary of Metadata Fields Description CHAPTER 5 ISO Topic Categories Iso Topic Categories and Keywords 117 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Isotopic Category Base Maps Scanned Maps and Charts Biologic and Ecologic Information Flora and or fauna in natural environment Administrative Legal land descriptions and Political Boundaries Boundaries Climatology Meteorology Atmosphere cl
144. type Event used for reference date Delivery point Address line for the location as described in ISO 11180 annex A Equivalent scale Denominator The number below the line in a vulgar fraction Data Quality Description Description of the event including related parameters or tolerances OnLine resource Description Detailed text description of what the online resource is does Descriptive keywords Provides category keywords their type and reference source Grid spatial representation Dimension name Name of the axis 1 e row column 113 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Grid spatial representation Dimension size Number of elements along the axis Dimension size Resolution Number of elements along the axis Distribution info Provides information about the distributor of and options for obtaining the resource s Geographic bounding box East bound longitude Eastern most coordinate of the limit of the dataset extent expressed in longitude in decimal degrees positive east Edition Version of the cited resource Electronic mail address Address of the electronic mailbox of the responsible organisation or individual Temporal extent End date Formatted as 2007 09 12T15 00 00 Y Y Y Y MM DDTHH mm ss Equivalent scale Level of detail expressed as the scale of a comparable hardcopy map or chart Extent Information about spatial vertical and temporal extent Facsimile Telephone number of a facsimile machine for the responsible organi
145. u da 108 3 11 Import Exporttools 4 2153 a a al de al 109 Glossary of Metadata Fields Description 113 ISO Topic Categories 117 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Information Systems 121 6 1 WebMapServersoltWate gcc 25 oe ar a eh edd A e 121 6 2 GIS Desktop SoftWare 5 sei raa ovk EG dete ed UA ao a ad 6 3 Web Map Viewer and Map Server Management 7 Frequently Asked Questions 7 HTTP Status 400 Bad request 7 2 Metadata insert fails 7 3 Thumbnail insert fails 7 4 The data and data tmp directories 2 ens 8 Glossary Index 123 123 123 123 124 125 129 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Welcome to the GeoNetwork User Manual v2 6 4 The manual is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of using GeoNetwork opensource Other documents GeoNetwork Developer Manual GeoNetwork User Manual PDF Contents 1 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 2 Contents CHAPTER 1 Preface 1 1 About this Project This document provides guidelines to install configure use and customise the GeoNetwork opensource software The GeoNetwork project started out as a Spatial Data Catalogue System for the Food and Agriculture organisation of the United Nations FAO the United Nations World Food Programme WFP and the United Nations Environmental Programme UNEP At present the project is widely used as the basis of Spatial Data Infrastructures all around the world The project is part
146. ual Release 2 6 4 Geographic search For the geographic search two options are available for selecting a particular region to limit the search You can select a region from a predefined list WHAT o E WHERE Reset Advanced HOptions Figure 2 2 The region field You can select your own area of interest in a more interactive way A small global map is shown on the screen from which you can drag and drop the frame of your location area Just click on the button on the upper right of the map screen Perform search Both types of search free text search and geographic search can be combined to restrict the query further Click the Search button to proceed and show the results 2 2 2 Searching by Categories An additional way to search data within the GeoNetwork database from the home page is searching by Category A list of categories is provided to the user to identify data at a more generic level Applica tions Audio Video Case study and best practises Conference proceedings Datasets Directories Interactive resources Maps and graphics Other information resources Photo To search only for maps click on Maps and Graphics A list of maps will be displayed from which you may view details of every single map just clicking on the Metadata button of the map you wish to review 2 2 Getting Started 9 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 WHAT WHERE User defined Z gt Reset
147. urope Godely Prestered soeces of the world Natural por ecosystems GeoNetwork Geographic data tharin foe everyone An M sd Hydroogca base n Arca 0 ES covert West Const C Cargo Rover Bain ant Ceetr ai Coast an Ocean Cont Lice Qed Been FINO INTERACTIVE MAPS GIS DATASETS SATELLITE IMAGERY AND RELATED APPLICATIONS Aggregate Resuts matching search criteria 17 7 0 selected page 1 1 Select ail none MYOROLOGICAL BASING IN AFRICA SAMPLE RECORD PLEASE REMOVE tego Amst xt Majer Mycological basins aec ther 9 sauna T MIA Gv Ges the Abra Contiscet according to As hydrological characteristics The dataset consists of the folowing informanon rumencal Keymcrts wetersheds river basins water resources hydrology AQUASTAT AWRD Africa Metadata Oownioad Interactive Mo ES PWYSIOGRAPHIC MAP Of NORTH AND CENTRAL EURASIA SAMPLE RECORD 1 kece PLEASE REMOVE Figure 2 15 The interactive map viewer 18 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Yosia Qrondoga Sqonaibri Gtrumenti Z Eo QE L3 QE Kl reo irocatos 2020 georetwcehjsrvjenain one lr T d httpc hocalhost 8080 thumbnallgif Mozilla Firefox p c LI LI Figure 2 16 Large preview image Username MN ee ME Figure 2 17 Login 2 2 Getting Started 19 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Privileges Depending on the
148. ve Com mons Attribution ShareAlike 3 0 Unported License Find more information at http creativecommons org licenses by sa 3 0 XML Extensible Markup Language is a general purpose specification for creating custom markup languages XSD XML Schema published as a W3C recommendation in May 2001 is one of several XML schema languages http en wikipedia org wiki XSD ebXML Enterprise Business XML DAO Data Access Object CRUD Create Read Update and Delete DB or DBMS A database management system DBMS is computer software that manages databases DBMSes may use any of a variety of database models such as the network model or relational model In large systems a DBMS allows users and other software to store and re trieve data in a structured way 125 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 SOA Service Oriented Architecture provides methods for systems development and integration where systems package functionality as interoperable services A SOA infrastructure allows different applications to exchange data with one another FGDC The Federal Geographic Data Committee FGDC is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development use sharing and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis in the USA See http www fgdc gov JMS Java Messaging Service TDD Test Driven Development JIBX Binding XML to Java Code HQL Hibernate Query Language OO Object Oriented EJB Enterprise Java Beans SOAP Simp
149. ve up to date localized files for the GUI Test interface for the CSW ISO Profile catalog interface Add sample metadata Figure 3 29 How to open the Transfer Ownership page Initially the page shows only a dropdown for a Source editor the current metadata owner The drop down is filled with all GeoNetwork Users that have the Editor role and own some metadata Selecting an Editor will select all metadata that is managed by that Editor An empty dropdown means that there are no Editors with metadata associated and hence no transfer is possible 3 6 Metadata ownership 97 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Note The drop down will be filled with all Editors visible to you If you are not an Administrator you will view only a subset of all Editors TRANSFER OWNERSHIP Source group Target group Targeteditor Operation Samplegroup Sample group v Bob Brady Transfer Figure 3 30 The Transfer Ownership page Once a Source Editor has been selected a set of rows is displayed Each row refers to the group of the Editor for which there are privileges The meaning of each column is the following 1 Source group This is a group that has privileges in the metadata that belong to the source editor Put in another way if one of the editor s metadata has privileges for one group that group is listed here 2 Target group This is the destination group of the transferring process All privileges relative to the source group
150. veral smaller files when appropriate and upload them sequentially You add the size of the file at the end of the description field To Upload a Dataset follow these steps 40 Chapter 2 Quick Start Guide GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 8 C NASA JPL OneEarth Web Mapping Server WMS NASA Earth Observations NEO WMS 5 C DEMIS World Map Server i3 C Geoserver 3S FAO GeoNetwork OGC Web Map Server E Hydrological basins in Africa Figure 2 42 Window to select WMS layer s referenced in online resource to load in map viewer OnLine resource URL http geonetwork3 fao org ows 296 Protocol OGC Web Map Service ver 1 1 1 S Name of the resource hydrological basins Description xl Figure 2 43 WMS online resource 2 5 Entering Metadata for your Map 41 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 1 The URL field can be left empty when uploading a file The system will automatically fill this field out 2 Select the correct protocol to be used If you do not see the buttons to browse and upload when File for download is selected save the metadata and return to the upload section Both buttons should appear 3 Provide a short description of the data 4 Click the Browse button and navigate to the folder where the file to be released is stored Consider if you want to upload multiple files as one unique zip file or as multiple separate downloads It is a good idea to add additional documentation w
151. web interface and for the inte gration of the existing web map viewer in the home page Similar functionalities have been implemented in the administrative part of the system to provide an easier access to the configuration pages related to site settings catalogue harvesting scheduling and maintenance The search interface has been completely overhauled to provide highly interactive searching capabilities Furthermore the new version of GNos embeds GeoServer as map server Users can now not only overlay OGC web map services available on the web but also create their own map services for other users to browse without having to download additional plugins Maps created with web map services can be now saved as PDF and sent to others The metadata catalogue handles the latest ISO19115 2003 geographic metadata format based on the ISO19139 2007 schemas as well as the older ISO19115 final draft format FGDC and Dublin Core The metadata editor is able to handle the majority of these complex standards providing default advanced and XML editing online tools The new version has a number of different harvesting interfaces allowing users to connect their own server to many other catalogues around the world This is the result of the implementation of the open source reference for the web catalog services according to OGC specifications Harvesting in the new version is fully compatible with GeoNetwork 2 0 and higher nodes We have added avanced online
152. wnership is set to null 3 11 2 Import This tool is located under Management tools on the left panel and allows you to import a set of metadata that have been previously exported using the export facility Selecting the Import tool opens the option panel HA Geo leones adi tra tor univ tool h Configuration Metadata import h Jetty DBMS This panel lets you reimport a previouly exported set of metadata data The 3 Management import is not destructive in the sense that new records will be created So make o Metadata Sync sure to have an empty database if you don t want metadata overlap Import o Export Database Input folder root setup Old installation Figure 3 43 The metadata import panel Input folder The source folder in your system that GAST will scan to collect metadata to import GAST will try to import all files with the MEF extension Browse button Navigate through your file system to choose an output location or enter it man ually into the text field Import This will start the process A progress dialogue will be opened to show the import status Note Sub folders are not scanned 3 11 3 Export This tool is located under the Management tool on the left panel and allows you to export a set of metadata using the MEF format Selecting the Export tool opens the option panel Output folder The target folder in your file system where GAST will put the
153. y and infrastructure andservices gas distribution data communication telecommunication radio communication networks 120 Chapter 5 ISO Topic Categories CHAPTER 6 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Information Systems A range of related software packages can be used in addition to GeoNetwork opensource to deploy a full Spatial Data Infrastructure These include Web Map Server software GIS desktop applications and Web Map Viewers Below you will find some examples of open source software available for each categories 6 1 6 2 6 3 Web Map Server software GeoServer All MapServer All MapGuide Open Source Windows amp Linux Deegree All GIS Desktop software GRASS All gvSIG AID uDig All Quantum GIS All OSSIM Windows amp OSX Web Map Viewer and Map Server Management OpenLayers All MapBender All 121 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 Note All The Windows Linux and Mac OS X operating systems 122 Chapter 6 Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Information Systems CHAPTER 7 Frequently Asked Questions This is a list of frequently encountered problems suggestions that help to find the cause of the problem and possible solutions The list is by no means exhaustive Feel free to contribute by submitting new problems and their solutions to the developer mailinglist Note install directory is a placeholder for the GeoN
154. y server In addition to that some tools require authentication so account parameters must be provided To provide these parameters you have to use the GAST s configuration dialogue To open the dialogue select Options Config from the menu bar You will get the following dialogue a y gt C orificio Server O Embedded amp External Host www f ao org Port 80 Servlet geonetwork Account No authentication e Use this account Username test Password peon Figure 3 40 The configuration dialogue 3 9 GeoNetwork s Administrator Survival Tool GAST 107 GeoNetwork User Manual Release 2 6 4 The dialogue is subdivided into 2 areas Server Tells GAST how to connect to a running GeoNetwork If you select the embedded op tion GAST will get the connection parameters from the installation directory Alternatively if you use Tomcat or an external servlet container you have to choose the external option and provide the connection parameters yourself Remember that this will work only for tools which operat ing mode is Running For all the others GAST will access the parameters from the installation directory Account Some tools require authentication To authenticate simply select the Use this account option and provide the username and password of a valid account These parameters will work for both the embedded instance and for any external instance

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