Dear list,
As I wrote in my previous email, an Australian governmental organisation
short listed GeoNetwork as a potential metadata management tool.
Besides versioning being a mandatory requirement there is a strong
desire to have more advanced spatial search capabilities and being able
to do a batch import of metadata from the file system.
Spatial Search:
In an announcement Jeroen sent to the list in November[1], there is
mention of the implementation of complex spatial search capabilities.
Some questions:
* Is any work already being done in this area and if so, what is
the status and expected release date?
* How will the search be implemented? As add-ins to Lucene and if
so, how? Or using the native capabilities of spatially enabled
databases?
* Is there any way we help prioritise the development of this
part?
Batch Importing:
Byron Cochrane has done some work on automating the creating of metadata
from the file system, see [2]. This looks impressive already.
Questions:
* What is the current status of your work, Byron?
* Are there any people out there working on a similar task?
* Could we discuss the possibility of teaming up and working
together on this?
Kind regards,
Roald
[1]
http://www.nabble.com/Announcement-SwissTopo-developments-for-GeoNetwork-td20683715.html
[2]
http://n2.nabble.com/SMET-metadata-extraction-tool-version-0.3-td1578056.html
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