[GeoNetwork-users] GeoNetwork REST API

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Hi all,

I am trying to find information about the existence of a REST API for connecting with an instance of GeoNetwork. I see some interest in it 3 years ago (http://dev.geonode.org/trac/ticket/339) and I see that there's a "widget" API, so that would lead me to believe that there's a way I could hit it, hopefully with an http request and not having to go through some widgets.

Is there documentation on using such a thing?

Thanks,
Ryan Hodges | Applications Developer | Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 200 * Portland, OR 97209
T (503) 467.0800 | F (503) 222.1517 | www.ecotrust.org<http://www.ecotrust.org/&gt;

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hi Ryan,

I wouldn't say there exist a REST API in GeoNetwork, strictly speaking.
However many of the catalog's functions are accessible through GET and POST
requests, which are described here:
http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/eng/developer/xml_services/index.html
.

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Ryan Hodges <rhodges@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to find information about the existence of a REST API for
connecting with an instance of GeoNetwork. I see some interest in it 3
years ago (http://dev.geonode.org/trac/ticket/339) and I see that there's
a "widget" API, so that would lead me to believe that there's a way I could
hit it, hopefully with an http request and not having to go through some
widgets.

Is there documentation on using such a thing?

Thanks,
Ryan Hodges | Applications Developer | Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 200 * Portland, OR 97209
T (503) 467.0800 | F (503) 222.1517 | www.ecotrust.org<
http://www.ecotrust.org/&gt;

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Hi Ryan,
The Geonetwork API we make wide use of is the OGC CSW protocol.http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/cat

We use this to enable two things:
1. Harvesting between compliant catalogues (eg: ESRI Geoportal, & other Geonetwork catalogues)
2. Cleaner search interfaces. eg:http://www.os2020.org.nz/data-and-reports/ uses a CSW client built into the Silverstripe CMS
http://ei.niwa.co.nz/search/resultset/source/DC/mode/init uses a custom client to query a Geonetwork catalogue.
The advantage of supporting this protocol is the number of existing clients hat are automatically able to connect, enabling a federated network of interoperable catalogues.
Not 100% what you asked for, but perhaps relevant.
HTH,
Brent Wood

--- On Wed, 12/5/12, heikki <tropicano@anonymised.com> wrote:
From: heikki <tropicano@anonymised.com>
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] GeoNetwork REST API
To: "Ryan Hodges" <rhodges@anonymised.com>
Cc: "geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <geonetwork-users@anonymised.comforge.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 11:12 AM

hi Ryan,

I wouldn't say there exist a REST API in GeoNetwork, strictly speaking.
However many of the catalog's functions are accessible through GET and POST
requests, which are described here:
http://geonetwork-opensource.org/manuals/trunk/eng/developer/xml_services/index.html
.

Kind regards
Heikki Doeleman

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Ryan Hodges <rhodges@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am trying to find information about the existence of a REST API for
connecting with an instance of GeoNetwork. I see some interest in it 3
years ago (http://dev.geonode.org/trac/ticket/339) and I see that there's
a "widget" API, so that would lead me to believe that there's a way I could
hit it, hopefully with an http request and not having to go through some
widgets.

Is there documentation on using such a thing?

Thanks,
Ryan Hodges | Applications Developer | Ecotrust
721 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 200 * Portland, OR 97209
T (503) 467.0800 | F (503) 222.1517 | www.ecotrust.org<
http://www.ecotrust.org/&gt;

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