[GeoNetwork-users] SensorML

Dear all,

Does anybody use geonetworks for managing SensorML data? I tried the MEST
sandbox version which should support SensorML but I can only upload XML
file. It seems as if there are no templates to start editing.
If you have any experiences with SensorML I would very much appreciate if
you could share your experiences with me.
Many thanks in andvance,
Robert

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Dear All,

I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I am using the
online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series of data for
repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
reference points on the island, the research created its own local
coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document, it is not
obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
questions.

1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems compared to
the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" standard.
This seems very strange given the importance to data use of the spatial
reference system, and that ISO is the international standard. Is there
any specific reason for this?

2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system fields which do
appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection", "ellipsoid", datum",
(IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online editor (or
others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does not cover
these ISO19115 fields?

3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?

I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on any of these
issues.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

I'm not a particular expert on the use of the ISO standards, but I have some questions that may help clarify your issues:

Have you examined ISO 191915 Section A.2.7 "Reference system information" and found it lacking? It appears to me (and to our specialists here at the University of Virginia) to be more-or-less as complete in expressive ability as FGDC.

Also, have you examined the FGDC - ISO crosswalk at:

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/documents/FGDC_Sections_v40.xls/view

? It includes a section mapping from FGDC Sections 4.1 and 4.2 to ISO that may help you.

As far as expressing unique reference systems, have you examined ISO 19111: "Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates"?

---
A. Soroka / Digital Scholarship Services R & D
the University of Virginia Library

On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:22 AM, S GOSSAGE wrote:

Dear All,

I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I am using the
online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series of data for
repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
reference points on the island, the research created its own local
coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document, it is not
obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
questions.

1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems compared to
the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" standard.
This seems very strange given the importance to data use of the spatial
reference system, and that ISO is the international standard. Is there
any specific reason for this?

2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system fields which do
appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection", "ellipsoid", datum",
(IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online editor (or
others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does not cover
these ISO19115 fields?

3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?

I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on any of these
issues.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

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Dear Steve,
Try using the advanced editor to use all the options the spatial reference elements in ISO19115 offer. You will not see all available elements in the default edit view. Unfortunately it requires you to dive into the ISO19115 spec (or schemas) to understand where the SRS elements are "hidden" in the advanced editor, but they are available.
Cheers,
Jeroen

On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:22 PM, S GOSSAGE wrote:

Dear All,

I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I am using the
online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series of data for
repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
reference points on the island, the research created its own local
coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document, it is not
obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
questions.

1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems compared to
the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" standard.
This seems very strange given the importance to data use of the spatial
reference system, and that ISO is the international standard. Is there
any specific reason for this?

2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system fields which do
appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection", "ellipsoid", datum",
(IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online editor (or
others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does not cover
these ISO19115 fields?

3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?

I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on any of these
issues.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

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Hi Steve,

The ISO TC 211 (Technical Committee for Geographic Information) has 50+ standards and technical specifications for Geographic Information. I believe that the definition of spatial reference systems is in a different standard to ISO 19115 and ISO 19139. I think you should use ISO 19111 "Geographic information - Spatial referencing by coordinates" (I will check to see if this is the right standard) to define the coordinate reference system (CRS). You can then use GeoNetwork to create a metadata record for that local reference system.

The intention is for all CRS to be registered with EPSG so that everyone can find out information about them. You then refer to the EPSG code when referring to that CRS using the RS_Identifier.

I hope that this helps.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: S GOSSAGE [mailto:sgossage@anonymised.com]
Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 3:22 AM
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for
local spatial reference system

Dear All,

I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I am using the
online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series
of data for
repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
reference points on the island, the research created its own local
coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document,
it is not
obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
questions.

1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems
compared to
the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" standard.
This seems very strange given the importance to data use of
the spatial
reference system, and that ISO is the international standard. Is there
any specific reason for this?

2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system
fields which do
appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection",
"ellipsoid", datum",
(IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online
editor (or
others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does
not cover
these ISO19115 fields?

3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?

I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on any of these
issues.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

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Dear Steve

Dave Danko, the Project Leader for ISO 19115, is not on this mailing list, but he asked me to send in this reply on his behalf:

  ISO 19115 (and ISO 19139) supports the identification of the CRS(s)
   used by a resource which is usually described elsewhere.
  ISO 19111 defines how to describe a CRS. ISO 19136 (GML) Clause 12,
  describes an encoding of ISO 19111.

I hope that this helps.

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On 12 December 2008 at 00:50, in message

<8B2245497B7F9348B262E7DF858E0B722C5A3665F4@anonymised.com>,
<John.Hockaday@anonymised.com> wrote:

Hi Steve,

The ISO TC 211 (Technical Committee for Geographic Information) has 50+
standards and technical specifications for Geographic Information. I believe
that the definition of spatial reference systems is in a different standard
to ISO 19115 and ISO 19139. I think you should use ISO 19111 "Geographic
information - Spatial referencing by coordinates" (I will check to see if this
is the right standard) to define the coordinate reference system (CRS). You
can then use GeoNetwork to create a metadata record for that local reference
system.

The intention is for all CRS to be registered with EPSG so that everyone can
find out information about them. You then refer to the EPSG code when
referring to that CRS using the RS_Identifier.

I hope that this helps.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: S GOSSAGE [mailto:sgossage@anonymised.com]
Sent: Friday, 12 December 2008 3:22 AM
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for
local spatial reference system

Dear All,

I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I am using the
online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series
of data for
repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
reference points on the island, the research created its own local
coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document,
it is not
obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
questions.

1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems
compared to
the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" standard.
This seems very strange given the importance to data use of
the spatial
reference system, and that ISO is the international standard. Is there
any specific reason for this?

2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system
fields which do
appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection",
"ellipsoid", datum",
(IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online
editor (or
others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does
not cover
these ISO19115 fields?

3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?

I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on any of these
issues.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

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Dear Jeroen Ticheler, A. Soroka, John Hockaday and Antony Cooper,

{[Jeroen.Ticheler@anonymised.com], [ajs6f@anonymised.com],
[John.Hockaday@anonymised.com] and [ACooper@anonymised.com]}

Thank you all very much for you various responses which were all very
helpful.

We will have to take a look at ISO 19111 which three of you suggested as
the standard for a unique coordinate reference system: and then create
metadata for that using GeoNetwork if that works.

I am aware of a wide range of reference system parameters under Sections
A.2.7 and the table B.2.7 in the ISO 19115 standard but I have been
unable to find these fields in the GeoNetwork metadata editor (or any
others I have looked at). So my difficulty appears at this stage to be
more with the implementation (e.g. GeoNetwork) than the ISO 19115
standard itself. This was mixed up in my original email so thanks for
the correction.

It is very reassuring (A.Soroka) that you feel the ISO and FGDC
standards to be of similar richness in coordinate reference system
expression. So far however I have seen some impressive reference system
sections for metadata produced using FGDC but none using ISO 19115.
Maybe I have not looked far enough or it is still early days for ISO
implementation.

A question remains to me therefore as to whether the rich list of
parameters for reference systems in the ISO 19115 standard (e.g.
projection, ellipsoid, datum, etc, parameters under A.2.7. and B.2.7) is
available through the GeoNetwork metadata editor. I have searched the
"advanced editor" pages with the ISO standard document at my side but
have not yet found any of these parameters. Where are they hidden? It is
a mystery.

Thanks again to you all for your replies: all greatly appreciated.

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

-----Original Message-----
From: ajs6f [mailto:ajs6f@anonymised.com]
Sent: 11 December 2008 20:46
To: Geonetwork Users
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for
localspatial reference system

I'm not a particular expert on the use of the ISO standards, but I
have some questions that may help clarify your issues:

Have you examined ISO 191915 Section A.2.7 "Reference system
information" and found it lacking? It appears to me (and to our
specialists here at the University of Virginia) to be more-or-less as
complete in expressive ability as FGDC.

Also, have you examined the FGDC - ISO crosswalk at:

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/documents/FGDC_Sections_v40.xls/view

? It includes a section mapping from FGDC Sections 4.1 and 4.2 to ISO
that may help you.

As far as expressing unique reference systems, have you examined ISO
19111: "Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates"?

---
A. Soroka / Digital Scholarship Services R & D
the University of Virginia Library

On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:22 AM, S GOSSAGE wrote:

Dear All,

I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I am using the
online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series of data
for
repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
reference points on the island, the research created its own local
coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document, it is
not
obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
questions.

1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems
compared to
the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata" standard.
This seems very strange given the importance to data use of the
spatial
reference system, and that ISO is the international standard. Is there
any specific reason for this?

2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system fields
which do
appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection", "ellipsoid",
datum",
(IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online editor
(or
others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does not
cover
these ISO19115 fields?

3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?

I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on any of these
issues.

Thanks in advance,

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

Hi Steve,

ISO 19115 has a corrigendum. In the corrigendum those parameters were deleted. The development of ISO 19139 included those changes identified in the corrigendum. That is probably why the CRS parameters are not in GeoNetwork.

I hope that this helps.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: S GOSSAGE [mailto:sgossage@anonymised.com]
Sent: Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:18 AM
To: 'Geonetwork Users'; 'Jeroen Ticheler'; 'ajs6f'; Hockaday
John; ACooper@anonymised.com
Subject: Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for localspatial
reference system

Dear Jeroen Ticheler, A. Soroka, John Hockaday and Antony Cooper,

{[Jeroen.Ticheler@anonymised.com], [ajs6f@anonymised.com],
[John.Hockaday@anonymised.com] and [ACooper@anonymised.com]}

Thank you all very much for you various responses which were all very
helpful.

We will have to take a look at ISO 19111 which three of you
suggested as
the standard for a unique coordinate reference system: and then create
metadata for that using GeoNetwork if that works.

I am aware of a wide range of reference system parameters
under Sections
A.2.7 and the table B.2.7 in the ISO 19115 standard but I have been
unable to find these fields in the GeoNetwork metadata editor (or any
others I have looked at). So my difficulty appears at this stage to be
more with the implementation (e.g. GeoNetwork) than the ISO 19115
standard itself. This was mixed up in my original email so thanks for
the correction.

It is very reassuring (A.Soroka) that you feel the ISO and FGDC
standards to be of similar richness in coordinate reference system
expression. So far however I have seen some impressive
reference system
sections for metadata produced using FGDC but none using ISO 19115.
Maybe I have not looked far enough or it is still early days for ISO
implementation.

A question remains to me therefore as to whether the rich list of
parameters for reference systems in the ISO 19115 standard (e.g.
projection, ellipsoid, datum, etc, parameters under A.2.7.
and B.2.7) is
available through the GeoNetwork metadata editor. I have searched the
"advanced editor" pages with the ISO standard document at my side but
have not yet found any of these parameters. Where are they
hidden? It is
a mystery.

Thanks again to you all for your replies: all greatly appreciated.

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

-----Original Message-----
From: ajs6f [mailto:ajs6f@anonymised.com]
Sent: 11 December 2008 20:46
To: Geonetwork Users
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for
localspatial reference system

I'm not a particular expert on the use of the ISO standards, but I
have some questions that may help clarify your issues:

Have you examined ISO 191915 Section A.2.7 "Reference system
information" and found it lacking? It appears to me (and to our
specialists here at the University of Virginia) to be more-or-less as
complete in expressive ability as FGDC.

Also, have you examined the FGDC - ISO crosswalk at:

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/documents/FGDC_Sections_v40.xls/view

? It includes a section mapping from FGDC Sections 4.1 and 4.2 to ISO
that may help you.

As far as expressing unique reference systems, have you examined ISO
19111: "Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates"?

---
A. Soroka / Digital Scholarship Services R & D
the University of Virginia Library

On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:22 AM, S GOSSAGE wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I
am using the
> online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series of data
> for
> repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
> island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
> geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
> reference points on the island, the research created its own local
> coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
> measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
> using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document, it is
> not
> obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
> questions.
>
> 1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
> fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems
> compared to
> the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata"
standard.
> This seems very strange given the importance to data use of the
> spatial
> reference system, and that ISO is the international
standard. Is there
> any specific reason for this?
>
> 2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system fields
> which do
> appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection", "ellipsoid",
> datum",
> (IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online editor
> (or
> others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does not
> cover
> these ISO19115 fields?
>
> 3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
> using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on
any of these
> issues.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve Gossage
> M.Sc. student
> City University
> London
> U.K.
>

Dear John,

Thank you very much for confirming that the CRS parameters were removed.
This is a bit of a relief for me since it means at least that I did not
fail in my search for the parameters. This is indeed helpful.

Many thanks,

Steve

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From: John.Hockaday@anonymised.com [mailto:John.Hockaday@anonymised.com]
Sent: 14 December 2008 23:00
To: sgossage@anonymised.com; geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net;
Jeroen.Ticheler@anonymised.com; ajs6f@anonymised.com; ACooper@anonymised.com
Subject: RE: Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for localspatial reference
system [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Steve,

ISO 19115 has a corrigendum. In the corrigendum those parameters were
deleted. The development of ISO 19139 included those changes identified
in the corrigendum. That is probably why the CRS parameters are not in
GeoNetwork.

I hope that this helps.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: S GOSSAGE [mailto:sgossage@anonymised.com]
Sent: Saturday, 13 December 2008 11:18 AM
To: 'Geonetwork Users'; 'Jeroen Ticheler'; 'ajs6f'; Hockaday
John; ACooper@anonymised.com
Subject: Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for localspatial
reference system

Dear Jeroen Ticheler, A. Soroka, John Hockaday and Antony Cooper,

{[Jeroen.Ticheler@anonymised.com], [ajs6f@anonymised.com],
[John.Hockaday@anonymised.com] and [ACooper@anonymised.com]}

Thank you all very much for you various responses which were all very
helpful.

We will have to take a look at ISO 19111 which three of you
suggested as
the standard for a unique coordinate reference system: and then create
metadata for that using GeoNetwork if that works.

I am aware of a wide range of reference system parameters
under Sections
A.2.7 and the table B.2.7 in the ISO 19115 standard but I have been
unable to find these fields in the GeoNetwork metadata editor (or any
others I have looked at). So my difficulty appears at this stage to be
more with the implementation (e.g. GeoNetwork) than the ISO 19115
standard itself. This was mixed up in my original email so thanks for
the correction.

It is very reassuring (A.Soroka) that you feel the ISO and FGDC
standards to be of similar richness in coordinate reference system
expression. So far however I have seen some impressive
reference system
sections for metadata produced using FGDC but none using ISO 19115.
Maybe I have not looked far enough or it is still early days for ISO
implementation.

A question remains to me therefore as to whether the rich list of
parameters for reference systems in the ISO 19115 standard (e.g.
projection, ellipsoid, datum, etc, parameters under A.2.7.
and B.2.7) is
available through the GeoNetwork metadata editor. I have searched the
"advanced editor" pages with the ISO standard document at my side but
have not yet found any of these parameters. Where are they
hidden? It is
a mystery.

Thanks again to you all for your replies: all greatly appreciated.

Steve Gossage
M.Sc. student
City University
London
U.K.

-----Original Message-----
From: ajs6f [mailto:ajs6f@anonymised.com]
Sent: 11 December 2008 20:46
To: Geonetwork Users
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] Using GeoNetwork and ISO19115 for
localspatial reference system

I'm not a particular expert on the use of the ISO standards, but I
have some questions that may help clarify your issues:

Have you examined ISO 191915 Section A.2.7 "Reference system
information" and found it lacking? It appears to me (and to our
specialists here at the University of Virginia) to be more-or-less as
complete in expressive ability as FGDC.

Also, have you examined the FGDC - ISO crosswalk at:

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/documents/FGDC_Sections_v40.xls/view

? It includes a section mapping from FGDC Sections 4.1 and 4.2 to ISO
that may help you.

As far as expressing unique reference systems, have you examined ISO
19111: "Geographic information -- Spatial referencing by coordinates"?

---
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On Dec 11, 2008, at 11:22 AM, S GOSSAGE wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am a new user of GeoNetwork and am greatly impressed. I
am using the
> online metadata editor to prepare metadata for a time series of data
> for
> repeated measurements of coastal dune topography on part of a small
> island off the Norfolk (UK) coast, for long term coastal
> geomorphological research. In the absence of national trigonometric
> reference points on the island, the research created its own local
> coordinate / spatial reference system for the early years of
> measurement. We would like to describe this local coordinate system
> using ISO19115. Apart from referring to an external document, it is
> not
> obvious how to do this in ISO19115, and I have a number of related
> questions.
>
> 1. It appears that ISO19115 is very much less rich in the number of
> fields for describing coordinate / spatial reference systems
> compared to
> the FGDC "Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata"
standard.
> This seems very strange given the importance to data use of the
> spatial
> reference system, and that ISO is the international
standard. Is there
> any specific reason for this?
>
> 2. Several of the more explicit spatial reference system fields
> which do
> appear in the ISO19115 standard (e.g. "projection", "ellipsoid",
> datum",
> (IDs 190 to 193) etc) do not appear in the GeoNetwork online editor
> (or
> others I have seen). Why is this? Is it because ISO19139 does not
> cover
> these ISO19115 fields?
>
> 3. What is the best way to describe a local spatial reference system
> using GeoNetwork and the full ISO19115 / ISO19139 standard?
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone can shed any light on
any of these
> issues.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve Gossage
> M.Sc. student
> City University
> London
> U.K.
>

Hi All,

I have been investigating security issues with OGC and ISO TC 211 services. I have noticed that the 52 degrees North project has the "Security and Geo-Rights Management Community" software development (http://52north.org/maven/project-sites/security/). Apparently this software is open source.

Has anyone implemented of considered implementing this security software into GeoNetwork? If not is there any reason why not and also should some GeoNetwork coder look at it? We don't want to reinvent the wheel. ;--)

Thanks.

John Hockaday
Geoscience Australia
GPO Box 378
Canberra ACT 2601
(02) 6249 9735
http://www.ga.gov.au/
john.hockaday\@ga.gov.au

Hi Robert.

I'm the creator of SensorML and would like to help where I can. Can you
describe a little more what you're wanting to do and perhaps I can tell you
what is and isn't available yet. By the way, not to distract you from this
forum which seems to be a good one, there is a public SensorML forum at
https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/sensorml
https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/sensorml ... it may be a
little broader than what you're looking for here though.

I'm not familiar with MEST. I too am curious as to what it might take to
support SensorML. I'm assuming that it allows one to find sensors or sensor
data (?).

Sorry I haven't provided you any answers yet, but I'm still trying to learn
a little from this group as well.

Thanks.
Mike Botts

Robert Huber wrote:

Dear all,

Does anybody use geonetworks for managing SensorML data? I tried the MEST
sandbox version which should support SensorML but I can only upload XML
file. It seems as if there are no templates to start editing.
If you have any experiences with SensorML I would very much appreciate if
you could share your experiences with me.
Many thanks in andvance,
Robert

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I have not used SensorML myself, I mainly use ISO19139 however....

There isn't a template record for SensorML in the MEST/sandbox version but you can easily
make one by opening the sample record that is provided and then save it as a template.

The following outlines what to do:

Login into Geonetwork with at least editor rights
Search for the Sensor ML record (title starts with 'SBE-37....')
Open the record
Click the create button (makes a copy of the record and opens copy for edit)
Edit the record as you see fit for your template.
Save the record as type=template (scroll down to bottom and select type=template)
Click save+close

The template is now there. To search for it go to the advanced search
form and restrict search to kind=template. Your template should come up.

Hope this helps,

Andrew Walsh
BlueNet Data Admin - RAN-DODC

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Botts" <mike.botts@anonymised.com>
To: <geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:43 AM
Subject: Re: [GeoNetwork-users] SensorML

Hi Robert.

I'm the creator of SensorML and would like to help where I can. Can you
describe a little more what you're wanting to do and perhaps I can tell you
what is and isn't available yet. By the way, not to distract you from this
forum which seems to be a good one, there is a public SensorML forum at https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/sensorml
https://lists.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/sensorml ... it may be a
little broader than what you're looking for here though.

I'm not familiar with MEST. I too am curious as to what it might take to
support SensorML. I'm assuming that it allows one to find sensors or sensor
data (?).

Sorry I haven't provided you any answers yet, but I'm still trying to learn
a little from this group as well.

Thanks.
Mike Botts

Robert Huber wrote:

Dear all,

Does anybody use geonetworks for managing SensorML data? I tried the MEST
sandbox version which should support SensorML but I can only upload XML
file. It seems as if there are no templates to start editing.
If you have any experiences with SensorML I would very much appreciate if
you could share your experiences with me.
Many thanks in andvance,
Robert

--
Dr. Robert Huber,

WDC-MARE / PANGAEA - www.pangaea.de
Stratigraphy.net - www.stratigraphy.net
_____________________________________________
MARUM - Institute for Marine Environmental Sciences (location)
University Bremen
Leobener Strasse
POP 330 440
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