[GeoNetwork-users] First doubts

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Dear list,

This is my first week using GeoNetwork and GeoServer. I think it’s the good
option for developing our project, but I have no experience. I searched
about first steps and newbie steps, but could not find many things. All the
people in our research team are architects and artists, with no experience
neither in GIS nor programming. And our budget is... zero.

I’ve been charged with the project of a map database related to architecture
and landscaping inventories. This map database will contain building plans
(at a resolution to be printed even to 1/500) and links to PDF descriptions
about monuments. All this information will be freely available on the web.
An old (and not successful) example is inside our www.cait.es web.

We have now lots of buildings plans, drawn in SHP, with a DBF containing
some data (the architect’s name, the municipality, degree of monument
protection it receives, year of building, etc.) so that we want to create a
viewer which allows people to obtain maps by place-s, by author-s, by
year-s... Our intention is creating different layers about middle-age
buildings, contemporary buildings, landscape impacts...

I suppose we must put all those SHP inside a folder which will be recognized
by GeoServer. (I’ll have all the SHP corrected from our students next week,
and have read about the basics in GeoServer)

My doubts are:

1) Then... which are the steps inside GeoNetwork, to allow the search
(inside one of the layers) and show some of the elements (and hide some
others, or show them in different colour) ? Is there any good template or
example to do that ? I’ve seent he tutorials for general purposes, but I
didn’t find this kind of information.

2) On the other side, we don’t know if there is any other research team
doing the same we’re doing. We’ld like to exchange experiences, and even
know if there’s any protocol about names, databases, or similar.

| alfons civit martínez | professor associat | arquitectura legal |
avaluació ambiental | centre d'anàlisi integral del territori |

| unitat predepartamental d’arquitectura | escola d’arquitectura de reus
| campus bellissens: av.universitat 1 - 43204 reus |

| universitat rovira i virgili |

| <mailto:alfons.civit@anonymised.com> alfons.civit@anonymised.com | orcid:
0000-0003-0351-6056 | <http://www.urv.cat> www.urv.cat |
<http://www.cait.es> www.cait.es |

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Alfons,

If I understand correctly, you wish to search the data variables within the shapefile from Geonetwork. I haven't heard of this being available but others may correct me here.

Can I point your attention to another application, Geonode, that includes Geonetwork and Geoserver but presents an easy interface to uploading and viewing datasets. I'm only new with it but it sounds like it may assist your efforts. It can't search datasets directly either but there I'm sure there are ways to code this into the application.

Abe.

  Richard "Abe" Coughlin

SPATIAL DATA & APPLICATIONS SPECIALIST
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On 4/16/2013 7:05 AM, [UPARQ] ALFONS CIVIT wrote:

Dear list,

This is my first week using GeoNetwork and GeoServer. I think it's the good
option for developing our project, but I have no experience. I searched
about first steps and newbie steps, but could not find many things. All the
people in our research team are architects and artists, with no experience
neither in GIS nor programming. And our budget is... zero.

I've been charged with the project of a map database related to architecture
and landscaping inventories. This map database will contain building plans
(at a resolution to be printed even to 1/500) and links to PDF descriptions
about monuments. All this information will be freely available on the web.
An old (and not successful) example is inside our www.cait.es web.

We have now lots of buildings plans, drawn in SHP, with a DBF containing
some data (the architect's name, the municipality, degree of monument
protection it receives, year of building, etc.) so that we want to create a
viewer which allows people to obtain maps by place-s, by author-s, by
year-s... Our intention is creating different layers about middle-age
buildings, contemporary buildings, landscape impacts...

I suppose we must put all those SHP inside a folder which will be recognized
by GeoServer. (I'll have all the SHP corrected from our students next week,
and have read about the basics in GeoServer)

My doubts are:

1) Then... which are the steps inside GeoNetwork, to allow the search
(inside one of the layers) and show some of the elements (and hide some
others, or show them in different colour) ? Is there any good template or
example to do that ? I've seent he tutorials for general purposes, but I
didn't find this kind of information.

2) On the other side, we don't know if there is any other research team
doing the same we're doing. We'ld like to exchange experiences, and even
know if there's any protocol about names, databases, or similar.

| alfons civit martínez | professor associat | arquitectura legal |
avaluació ambiental | centre d'anàlisi integral del territori |

| unitat predepartamental d'arquitectura | escola d'arquitectura de reus
| campus bellissens: av.universitat 1 - 43204 reus |

| universitat rovira i virgili |

| <mailto:alfons.civit@anonymised.com> alfons.civit@anonymised.com | orcid:
0000-0003-0351-6056 | <http://www.urv.cat> www.urv.cat |
<http://www.cait.es> www.cait.es |

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Hi,

when shapefiles (SHP) are loaded into GeoServer, you may try to harvest the WMS/WFS services of GeoServer.
http://www.geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/2.8.0/eng/users/managing_metadata/harvesting/ogcwxs/index.html#ogcwxs-harvester

Maybe this gives you what you need.
If not, may the generated metadata serve as a starting point for your metadata project (adding links to PDF, etc.).

Make sure you don't overwrite your edited metadata, by scheduling harvesting/re-harvesting GeoServer services (this happened in GeoNetwork v2.6 at least, beacause new UUIDs are generated).

About loading shapefiles into PostGIS, have a look at
http://www.bostongis.com/pgsql2shp_shp2pgsql_quickguide_20.bqg
http://khayer.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/creating-database-and-importing-shape-file-in-postgis/

Should be possible to make a shell script for this.

kind regards
Jørn-Vegard Røsnes

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From: "[UPARQ] ALFONS CIVIT" <alfons.civit@anonymised.com>
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:05:32 PM
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] First doubts

Dear list,

This is my first week using GeoNetwork and GeoServer. I think it’s the good
option for developing our project, but I have no experience. I searched
about first steps and newbie steps, but could not find many things. All the
people in our research team are architects and artists, with no experience
neither in GIS nor programming. And our budget is... zero.

I’ve been charged with the project of a map database related to architecture
and landscaping inventories. This map database will contain building plans
(at a resolution to be printed even to 1/500) and links to PDF descriptions
about monuments. All this information will be freely available on the web.
An old (and not successful) example is inside our www.cait.es web.

We have now lots of buildings plans, drawn in SHP, with a DBF containing
some data (the architect’s name, the municipality, degree of monument
protection it receives, year of building, etc.) so that we want to create a
viewer which allows people to obtain maps by place-s, by author-s, by
year-s... Our intention is creating different layers about middle-age
buildings, contemporary buildings, landscape impacts...

I suppose we must put all those SHP inside a folder which will be recognized
by GeoServer. (I’ll have all the SHP corrected from our students next week,
and have read about the basics in GeoServer)

My doubts are:

1) Then... which are the steps inside GeoNetwork, to allow the search
(inside one of the layers) and show some of the elements (and hide some
others, or show them in different colour) ? Is there any good template or
example to do that ? I’ve seent he tutorials for general purposes, but I
didn’t find this kind of information.

2) On the other side, we don’t know if there is any other research team
doing the same we’re doing. We’ld like to exchange experiences, and even
know if there’s any protocol about names, databases, or similar.

| alfons civit martínez | professor associat | arquitectura legal |
avaluació ambiental | centre d'anàlisi integral del territori |

| unitat predepartamental d’arquitectura | escola d’arquitectura de reus
| campus bellissens: av.universitat 1 - 43204 reus |

| universitat rovira i virgili |

| <mailto:alfons.civit@anonymised.com> alfons.civit@anonymised.com | orcid:
0000-0003-0351-6056 | <http://www.urv.cat> www.urv.cat |
<http://www.cait.es> www.cait.es |

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analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building
apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use
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