Hello developers,
LISAsoft has been hired by the Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australia to provide an improved interface to Geonetwork.
In particular, they would like to Metadata entry forms to be ordered in a format which makes sense to a user, rather than in the order specified by a schema.
We need to deliver by the 30 June, so the client might need to be a stand alone application initially (desktop or browser based) so that we can deliver before the next Geonetwork release.
My hope is that whatever we build will be of use to the Geonetwork community and can be rolled into the Geonetwork codebase, hence this email.
I'm keen to hear suggestions on how we should design the application. What work has already been done or is being done that we should build upon or work with? I notice that Simon Pigot has been looking into browser based issues. Simon, I'm keen to hear how we can slot into your work.
The developer(s) who will likely be working on this will be strong in AJAX development: Openlayers and Mapbuilder. I suspect that Mapbuilder might be the right framework due to its strong support for XSL translations. However, I'm open to using java based server side, or something else instead.
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Systems Architect
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