[GeoNetwork-devel] 2.2 release : subtemplates

Hi all, I'm making some more testing on 2.2 branches before final
release. There's still "sub-templates" reference on the editor section
(bottom of the page on edit mode) ... do we need to hide that part
before the next RC ?

Ciao. Francois

PS: If yes, I could do that tomorrow morning.

Hi Francois,
Yes, we should indeed! Please do.

Some other topics related to the final RC2:
I'm also looking at the brief format, the protocols and the a migration to mimetype protocols instead of our own protocols. I think that would be a good change in a next release, even though some of it is best done now. For instance, OGC services besides the WMS services have been rarely used so far. It makes sense to me to make sure that we change those protocols now. I could also make sure that in the migration from 2.0 to 2.2 the transformation from 19115:dis to 19139 encoded metadata could make sure the old protocols are replaced by the new one....

There's a bit of code that Emanuele will commit to make adding notes to maps (and WMC docs) work.

There's still images to be updated in the documentation. Documentation itself also needs improvement or completing in parts.

I will try to make the RC2 on Monday.

Cheers,
Jeroen

On Feb 14, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Francois-Xavier Prunayre wrote:

Hi all, I'm making some more testing on 2.2 branches before final
release. There's still "sub-templates" reference on the editor section
(bottom of the page on edit mode) ... do we need to hide that part
before the next RC ?

Ciao. Francois

PS: If yes, I could do that tomorrow morning.

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Jeroen Ticheler wrote:

Hi Francois,
Yes, we should indeed! Please do.

Done.

There's still images to be updated in the documentation. Documentation
itself also needs improvement or completing in parts.

I had a look to the new docbook output format of the doc and it looks
really nice. Thanks Jeroen !

Francois

Hello all,

At NOAA in Boulder we have been trying to understand how to reference the same metadata object from many different metadata records. We definitely need this capability for contacts, citations, instruments, … It seems that it was addressed previously using sub-templates and that these have been removed/replaced in the most recent release. Is there some documentation on what replaced them? I have heard that it might be xlinks but I have not been able to find any informative discussion on this topic…

Ted Habermann

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NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center
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If you want to go far, go together”
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Hi Ted,

Francois Prunayre and I have been working on metadata re-use and speed-ups in the editor - we have a draft proposal on this topic on the trac site:

http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/proposals

We're hoping to put our work together for the 2.3 release but I've been dragging the chain a bit on committing my part of the work to the sandbox for this to happen (hopefully by the end of this week Francois!). In the meantime check out the draft proposal for more info.

Cheers,
Simon

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Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-devel] 2.2 release : subtemplates

Hello all,

At NOAA in Boulder we have been trying to understand how to reference
the same metadata object from many different metadata records. We
definitely need this capability for contacts, citations,
instruments, ... It seems that it was addressed previously using sub-
templates and that these have been removed/replaced in the most recent
release. Is there some documentation on what replaced them? I have
heard that it might be xlinks but I have not been able to find any
informative discussion on this topic...

Ted Habermann

==== Ted Habermann ===========================
    Enterprise Data Systems Group Leader
    NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center
    V: 303.497.6472 F: 303.497.6513
    "If you want to go quickly, go alone.
    If you want to go far, go together"
    Old Proverb
==== Ted.Habermann@anonymised.com ==================

Hi Ted,

On mar, 2008-07-22 at 07:49 -0600, Ted Habermann wrote:

Hello all,

At NOAA in Boulder we have been trying to understand how to reference
the same metadata object from many different metadata records. We
definitely need this capability for contacts, citations,
instruments, ...

It seems that it was addressed previously using sub-templates and that
these have been removed/replaced in the most recent release.

sub-template mechanism is hidden for the time being in GeoNetwork. So it
should be possible to turn this on I guess (but don't really know
how-to. It has been made by Roberto). Sub-templates allow to copy/paste
element (not create reference).

Is there some documentation on what replaced them? I have heard that
it might be xlinks but I have not been able to find any informative
discussion on this topic...

See proposal as said by Simon and ... I'm currently working on that
using XLink for Contact, Keywords and CRS for one project but it will
not be generic enough to add all in GeoNetwork 2.3 (Maybe at least
keywords could).

In my working prototype, we have :
* contact stored in XML file in GeoNetwork
* keywords stored in SKOS file in GeoNetwork
* crs stored in XML file in GeoNetwork
and works for iso19139 only. I have to make a beta release for next week
for that project, and probably I could add this project to the sandbox
so you could have a look.

Lot of issues here : where to store references ? which format ? keep all
these elements in GeoNetwork ? in a contact registry ? be able to use
external resources (an ldap) ? an epsg database somewhere ? xml
repository or other ? Caching fragments ? Use only the index for search
to avoid use of XLink resolver (ie. store more info on the index and do
not use the DB for search and display) ?

I made a quick page to guide our discussion on that topic here:
http://trac.osgeo.org/geonetwork/wiki/XLinkedFragments
(feel free to update / comment)

I also have new support on that topic on comming projects so I would be
glad to discuss that topic with you and other on the list in order to
make a more generic dev for GeoNetwork.

Ciao. Francois

Ted Habermann

==== Ted Habermann ===========================
   Enterprise Data Systems Group Leader
   NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center
   V: 303.497.6472 F: 303.497.6513
   "If you want to go quickly, go alone.
   If you want to go far, go together"
   Old Proverb
==== Ted.Habermann@anonymised.com ==================