Hey
Nyall
No it doesn't crawl itself.
If there was an in built crawler it would need to handle generating
metadata in different metadata profiles.
I haven't seen how the existing crawlers work but with my scripts to
generate metadata XML they just populate a XML template using 19115 / 19139
structure and content. This template is mostly pre-populated with regional
information and contact / custodian details. The rest of the fields are
then generated from a spreadsheet I have the client populate. This fills in
all the blanks and makes the metadata XML meet the min requirements of the
profile.
If i were going to just search datasets in a drive or database you would
need to do a lot more data entry to get a record that is useful and meets
minimum requirements of the profile. A metadata record only populated with
File path / name, extent, modified date is not very useful.
I guess you would need to fill in the gaps somehow, perhaps an in build
crawler could do similar to my workflow and allow the user prefill a
template and then crawl and build records based on the template. The user
would be able to map which elements are popualted by the crawl.
Perhaps others will chime in.
On Monday, 1 August 2016, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson@anonymised.com> wrote:
On 29 July 2016 at 18:11, Luke <coolhandluka@anonymised.com> wrote:
> Hey Nyall
>
> You can create a dataset resource link in records, perhaps that is what
your
> after?
You're referring to
http://www.geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/fra/users/user-guide/associating-resources/linking-online-resources.html#linking-a-database-table-or-a-gis-file-on-the-network
,
right?
>
> There are methods to populate GN from data on a server. You either use
> crawler apps or you can build a process that genrates the xml the loads
via
> api or normal import methods. I havent used any crawlers but if you
search
> the list you should find some references to some.
Is there anyway to populate this using the built-in harvester? And if
not, I'm curious as to why. Is it outside the scope of this project?
Or would a patchset be welcome?
Cheers,
Nyall
>
> It would be awesome to be able to use GN to build a qgis project!
>
>
> Luke
>
>
> On Friday, 29 July 2016, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson@anonymised.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm new to Geonetwork, and just trying to get my head around whether
>> or not it fits my use case, or if I'm mistakenly trying to mash it
>> into something it's not designed for...
>>
>> What I'm looking for is a way to catalog a folder i've inherited which
>> is effectively just a dump of a ton of vector/raster files in a mix of
>> formats. There's a lot of metadata hidden in there, and I want to
>> catalog it all so that I can start to get this under control.
>>
>> I've been playing with Geonetwork and used it to harvest this
>> metadata, and I'm certainly very impressed with its data
>> browsing/searching features. But I can't find anyway to have entries
>> in the Geonetwork catalog linked back to the datasets/files that these
>> entries were harvested from!
>>
>> Is this possible in Geonetwork? Ideally I'm looking for a way to
>> catalog all these flat files + PostGIS tables + various online WMS/WFS
>> sources (no issue there), and then have some easy way to add them as
>> layers to a project in QGIS (I can handle that part if it's not
>> already been done by someone).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nyall
>>
>>
>>
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