[GeoNetwork-devel] New category (physical samples)

We currently have a requirement to create metadata records identifying
physical samples(i.e. fish scales) - I was going thought all the categories
that exists in the default installation of Geonetworks and none of them seem
to fit our requirements.

I know I can add a new category to the system and I can even add a pretty
icon to web\geonetwork\images\category folder (i.e.
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/medical-toolbar-icons-by-aha-soft/DNA-helix-icon.html
Sample DNA Icon )

But I'm getting push back from management where they don't want us to
deviate far from the initial installation for fear that it will cause
problems in future upgrades/maintenance.

So my question: is this list part of a standards? and are you open to adding
new items to the list? - If so I can submit the enhancement.

Thank you.

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hi,

the categories are not part of any standard AFAIK, and to me it sounds fine to add yours. What do others think ?

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:06 PM, ianwallen <ianwallen@anonymised.com> wrote:

We currently have a requirement to create metadata records identifying
physical samples(i.e. fish scales) - I was going thought all the categories
that exists in the default installation of Geonetworks and none of them seem
to fit our requirements.

I know I can add a new category to the system and I can even add a pretty
icon to web\geonetwork\images\category folder (i.e.
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/medical-toolbar-icons-by-aha-soft/DNA-helix-icon.html
Sample DNA Icon )

But I’m getting push back from management where they don’t want us to
deviate far from the initial installation for fear that it will cause
problems in future upgrades/maintenance.

So my question: is this list part of a standards? and are you open to adding
new items to the list? - If so I can submit the enhancement.

Thank you.


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Aren’t the categories just part of the database setup? +0 from me I have no opinion on adding it. As you said it is not standard and we have essentially deleted them all for geocat.

Jesse

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:13 PM, heikki <tropicano@anonymised.com> wrote:

hi,

the categories are not part of any standard AFAIK, and to me it sounds fine to add yours. What do others think ?

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:06 PM, ianwallen <ianwallen@anonymised.com> wrote:

We currently have a requirement to create metadata records identifying
physical samples(i.e. fish scales) - I was going thought all the categories
that exists in the default installation of Geonetworks and none of them seem
to fit our requirements.

I know I can add a new category to the system and I can even add a pretty
icon to web\geonetwork\images\category folder (i.e.
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/medical-toolbar-icons-by-aha-soft/DNA-helix-icon.html
Sample DNA Icon )

But I’m getting push back from management where they don’t want us to
deviate far from the initial installation for fear that it will cause
problems in future upgrades/maintenance.

So my question: is this list part of a standards? and are you open to adding
new items to the list? - If so I can submit the enhancement.

Thank you.


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Hi, note that the linked image has a restricted license (License: Free
for non-commercial use.
Commercial usage: Not allowed), so you'd better select a different one.

Regarding those categories, they are a weird concept to me, as AFAIK
they don't belong to metadata (e.g. if you download the XML version),
nor are normally exposed on CSW or other Geonetwork interfaces.

I wonder if wouldn't be more coherent to dinamically build the
categories based on some medadata field (or on the other extreme, to
encode the categories in the metadata if they are considered useful or
relevant...).

Best regards,

César

2012/6/26 ianwallen <ianwallen@anonymised.com>:

We currently have a requirement to create metadata records identifying
physical samples(i.e. fish scales) - I was going thought all the categories
that exists in the default installation of Geonetworks and none of them seem
to fit our requirements.

I know I can add a new category to the system and I can even add a pretty
icon to web\geonetwork\images\category folder (i.e.
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/medical-toolbar-icons-by-aha-soft/DNA-helix-icon.html
Sample DNA Icon )

But I'm getting push back from management where they don't want us to
deviate far from the initial installation for fear that it will cause
problems in future upgrades/maintenance.

So my question: is this list part of a standards? and are you open to adding
new items to the list? - If so I can submit the enhancement.

Thank you.

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César

Thanks for pointing that out.

I have sent a pull request to change it to a GPL icon.

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