[GeoNetwork-users] custom metadata in GeoNetwork?

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1

Hello,

I've just installed GeoNetwork and I was wondering if,
in addition to the standard metadata, one can also have
custom metadata fields, defined by the user.

For instance, when registering a data set, I would like
to add access parameters, a local id, a locally relevant
data set type a.s.o. Some of the parameters need to be
hidden. I already have a 'data register' storing information
about data sets for use in separate applications and it would be
good to place all metadata, public and private, in one location.

Is this possible with GeoNetwork?

Many thanks in advance,

Fanel
Melbourne, Au

P.S. Apologies for asking before finishing reading the manuals,
we need to decide on the architecture of our GIS project
(which may include GeoNetworks)

2

hello,

yes, this is possible. The process is known as 'creating a profile', which
allows you to redefine one of the standard metadata schemas, so you could
remove elements you don't want and add elements that you want to them. It's
most common I would say that profiles are created on the ISO19139 schema
for metadata.

Up until the current release of GeoNetwork this is a more or less ad hoc
activity, but the upcoming release (scheduled for March 2012) contains the
feature "plugin-profiles" which standardizes this process. I would
certainly recommend using this new feature, rather than doing it in the old
ways.

However it's not yet released; this leaves you two options: either wait for
the release, or use the code from GeoNetwork's trunk codebase, which will
go in the next release. This may sound more bleeding risky than it really
is, as there are already various sites that have taken the current trunk
code into production. Documentation about how to use the new plugin
profiles is provided in the User Manual, the version that is also in trunk.
For specific questions you can always ask the mailing list.

Does this answer your question ?

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Fanel Donea <fanel.donea@anonymised.com>wrote:

Hello,

I've just installed GeoNetwork and I was wondering if,
in addition to the standard metadata, one can also have
custom metadata fields, defined by the user.

For instance, when registering a data set, I would like
to add access parameters, a local id, a locally relevant
data set type a.s.o. Some of the parameters need to be
hidden. I already have a 'data register' storing information
about data sets for use in separate applications and it would be
good to place all metadata, public and private, in one location.

Is this possible with GeoNetwork?

Many thanks in advance,

Fanel
Melbourne, Au

P.S. Apologies for asking before finishing reading the manuals,
we need to decide on the architecture of our GIS project
(which may include GeoNetworks)

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Hello Heikki,

Yes, this does answer my question and it's the answer
I was hoping for!

I'll have a closer look at the documentation.
The next step is to find out how I can programmatically interrogate
the metadata store fore retrieving the 'hidden' parameters of
a data set.

Thanks a lot,
Fanel
Melbourne, Au
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From: heikki [tropicano@anonymised.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 6:44
To: Fanel Donea
Cc: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] custom metadata in GeoNetwork?

hello,

yes, this is possible. The process is known as 'creating a profile', which allows you to redefine one of the standard metadata schemas, so you could remove elements you don't want and add elements that you want to them. It's most common I would say that
profiles are created on the ISO19139 schema for metadata.

Up until the current release of GeoNetwork this is a more or less ad hoc activity, but the upcoming release (scheduled for March 2012) contains the feature "plugin-profiles" which standardizes this process. I would certainly recommend using this new feature,
rather than doing it in the old ways.

However it's not yet released; this leaves you two options: either wait for the release, or use the code from GeoNetwork's trunk codebase, which will go in the next release. This may sound more bleeding risky than it really is, as there are already various
sites that have taken the current trunk code into production. Documentation about how to use the new plugin profiles is provided in the User Manual, the version that is also in trunk. For specific questions you can always ask the mailing list.

Does this answer your question ?

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Fanel Donea
<fanel.donea@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello,

I've just installed GeoNetwork and I was wondering if,
in addition to the standard metadata, one can also have
custom metadata fields, defined by the user.

For instance, when registering a data set, I would like
to add access parameters, a local id, a locally relevant
data set type a.s.o. Some of the parameters need to be
hidden. I already have a 'data register' storing information
about data sets for use in separate applications and it would be
good to place all metadata, public and private, in one location.

Is this possible with GeoNetwork?

Many thanks in advance,
Fanel
Melbourne, Au

P.S. Apologies for asking before finishing reading the manuals,
we need to decide on the architecture of our GIS project
(which may include GeoNetworks)

4

hi Fanel,

if you have a profile that holds extra metadata elements, you
can programmatically retrieve metadata using that profile which will
contain those extra elements. The plugin profile may contain code to hide
some of those elements from the User Interface, if this is what you mean ?

regards,
Heikki

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Fanel Donea <fanel.donea@anonymised.com>wrote:

Hello Heikki,

Yes, this does answer my question and it's the answer
I was hoping for!

I'll have a closer look at the documentation.
The next step is to find out how I can programmatically interrogate
the metadata store fore retrieving the 'hidden' parameters of
a data set.

Thanks a lot,
Fanel
Melbourne, Au
-------------

From: heikki [tropicano@anonymised.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 December 2011 6:44
To: Fanel Donea
Cc: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] custom metadata in GeoNetwork?

hello,

yes, this is possible. The process is known as 'creating a profile', which
allows you to redefine one of the standard metadata schemas, so you could
remove elements you don't want and add elements that you want to them. It's
most common I would say that
profiles are created on the ISO19139 schema for metadata.

Up until the current release of GeoNetwork this is a more or less ad hoc
activity, but the upcoming release (scheduled for March 2012) contains the
feature "plugin-profiles" which standardizes this process. I would
certainly recommend using this new feature,
rather than doing it in the old ways.

However it's not yet released; this leaves you two options: either wait
for the release, or use the code from GeoNetwork's trunk codebase, which
will go in the next release. This may sound more bleeding risky than it
really is, as there are already various
sites that have taken the current trunk code into production.
Documentation about how to use the new plugin profiles is provided in the
User Manual, the version that is also in trunk. For specific questions you
can always ask the mailing list.

Does this answer your question ?

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Fanel Donea
<fanel.donea@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hello,

I've just installed GeoNetwork and I was wondering if,
in addition to the standard metadata, one can also have
custom metadata fields, defined by the user.

For instance, when registering a data set, I would like
to add access parameters, a local id, a locally relevant
data set type a.s.o. Some of the parameters need to be
hidden. I already have a 'data register' storing information
about data sets for use in separate applications and it would be
good to place all metadata, public and private, in one location.

Is this possible with GeoNetwork?

Many thanks in advance,
Fanel
Melbourne, Au

P.S. Apologies for asking before finishing reading the manuals,
we need to decide on the architecture of our GIS project
(which may include GeoNetworks)