I'm working on a project that is looking at geospatial metadata creation as a bottom-up, collaborative process. We'd like to use geonetwork for this, but I'm not sure the back end is designed for what we need. Basically, the metadata management would be in the style of a wiki, where any know user could edit a metadata record, but you could see who made what changes, and you could rollback to previous versions.
Is this type of functionality present or planned?
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Raj
Hello Raj,
Raj Singh wrote:
I'm working on a project that is looking at geospatial metadata
creation as a bottom-up, collaborative process. We'd like to use
geonetwork for this, but I'm not sure the back end is designed for
what we need. Basically, the metadata management would be in the style
of a wiki,
How complex will be the form for editing ? like the existing one ? or a
more simple one with basic information (ISO core) ?
where any know user could edit a metadata record, but you
could see who made what changes, and you could rollback to previous
versions.Is this type of functionality present or planned?
I think metadata versionning using SVN could help to track changes made
by user :
http://n2.nabble.com/GeoNetwork-Metadata-Versioning-td2020353.html#a2020353
Ciao.
Francois
The editing form doesn't have to be any different than the existing one.
You referenced an SVN-based GeoNetwork Metadata Versioning idea at:
http://n2.nabble.com/GeoNetwork-Metadata-Versioning-td2020353.html#a2020353
I think we have the same requirements as specified in that message. I'm not sure SVN will do it though. If GN used SVN as a back-end revision manager, it would still be hard to query by field, to answer for example a query such as who last changed the contact name for the data set. To do that kind of query well you might have to implement what Roald calls the "full DB approach for keeping history of changes (history table)"
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Raj
On Jan 12, at 2:41 AM, Francois-Xavier Prunayre wrote:
Hello Raj,
Raj Singh wrote:
I'm working on a project that is looking at geospatial metadata
creation as a bottom-up, collaborative process. We'd like to use
geonetwork for this, but I'm not sure the back end is designed for
what we need. Basically, the metadata management would be in the style
of a wiki,How complex will be the form for editing ? like the existing one ? or a
more simple one with basic information (ISO core) ?where any know user could edit a metadata record, but you
could see who made what changes, and you could rollback to previous
versions.Is this type of functionality present or planned?
I think metadata versionning using SVN could help to track changes made
by user :
http://n2.nabble.com/GeoNetwork-Metadata-Versioning-td2020353.html#a2020353Ciao.
Francois