[GeoNetwork-users] batch import - crawling for metadata?

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I have read through the documentation and searched the forum but have not
found this answer yet.

We have thousands of shapefiles and aerial photographs stored on our
network. I have installed Geonetwork version 2.1.0 with Tomcat and MySQL.
Most of our geographic data has XML data in various ESRI formats but it is
not accessible to Geonetwork as of yet. Is there a way to have Geonetwork
crawl our network in search of XML files and import those XML files? I have
seen the batch import tool, it imports a single local folder of XML files
which would take a very long time and would be a very convoluted process.

Thank you for any help,
Paul Lohr
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Hi Paul,

paul_lohr wrote:

I have read through the documentation and searched the forum but have not
found this answer yet.

We have thousands of shapefiles and aerial photographs stored on our
network. I have installed Geonetwork version 2.1.0 with Tomcat and MySQL.
Most of our geographic data has XML data in various ESRI formats but it is
not accessible to Geonetwork as of yet. Is there a way to have Geonetwork
crawl our network in search of XML files and import those XML files? I have
seen the batch import tool, it imports a single local folder of XML files
which would take a very long time and would be a very convoluted process.

You could have a look to Amit's plugin for arccatalog, but you'll have
to do it manually I guess.
http://n2.nabble.com/BETA-ArcCatalog-to-GeoNetwork-plugin-published-on-SourceForge-td2020186.html#a2020186

Using spatialDataIntegrator, you could also create a job to search for
xml files, convert to iso and push to GeoNetwork :
http://www.talendforge.org/wiki/doku.php?id=sdi:examples#metadata_conversion

Byron also work on an extraction tools in python
http://n2.nabble.com/SMET-metadata-extraction-tool-version-0.3-td2020279.html#a2020279

HTH.

Francois

Thank you for any help,
Paul Lohr