Once more as a complete message. Sorry for the
duplications.
Dear Paul,
I received your recent very interesting presentation on
metadata tool
comparison through Yola and would like to provide some
additional
feedback to allow you to correct the evaluation of the
GeoNetwork
tool that I am responsible for in FAO.
I have taken your matrix and will list my comments below:

- Profile creation: Supported through the online editor,
allowing to
create templates with or without pre-filled content.
Supported by
adding custom XSD schema's for custom profiles (several
initiatives
have already done this for for example the French profile,
German
profile, Australian marine profile and I or others could
list more)
- Schema validation: Supported. The current version (2.0)
supports
XSD validation. Version 2.1 will also support the additional
content
validation, allowing to both validate structure and
content.
- Languages supported: Language independent. Current
translations are
a.o. English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Italian,
Portuguese,
German and others like Czech and Hungarian.
- Supported standards: Dublin Core, FGDC, ISO19115 (all in
version
2.0). In version 2.1 also ISO19115 based on the ISO19139
implementation standard is supported. Others can be added.
- Entity / element extensibility: Through custom profiles,
extensions
can be included. The standards supported are independent
from the
application's business logic.
- Thesauri, code lists and defaults:
- thesauri have been added into version 2.1. You can import
a
thesaurus through the web administration interface and use
it both in
the editor and in the search
- code lists are provided in the editor forms in human
readable form
- defaults can be set using the metadata template system
- calendars are used to ensure dates are inserted in
compliance with
ISO standard 8601
In addition, we are working on extensions that allow you to
directly
import and export metadata generated in a range of
applications.
This includes:
- ArcCatalog created metadata and data that can be
directly
exported and imported from ArcCatalog (using a tool in
ArcCatalog)
into GeoNetwork opensource. This includes thumbnail and data
export
support.
- Direct import & export of ArcCatalog XML metadata
into GeoNetwork
through the web interface (both ISO19115 and FGDC metadata)
- A stand alone Windows based metadata editor that
extracts
geospatial properties from the data set and generates
ISO19115
metadata that can be directly inserted into the web based
catalog.
- the gvSIG project is adding a metadata editor that
directly
inserts metadata into GeoNetwork. gvSIG can also search
GeoNetwork
catalogs directly.
I also missed a notion on supported Catalog standards
supported to
allow catalogs and clients to interact and create an SDI
network.
GeoNetwork supports both OGC-CAT 1 (Z39.50) and CSW 2.0.2
(as the
open source reference implementation for the OGC standard).
It also
uses it's own (open but not standard) protocol for
harvesting. We are
planning to add OAI server support in collaboration with
UNEP.
If you need any other background, please feel free to
contact me or
others in the community. This type of evaluations is very
valuable to
us to ensure we develop the GeoNetwork system in a way that
matches/
fulfills requirements from the large group of users.
Again, thanks for the work and greetings from Rome,
Jeroen
_______________________
Jeroen Ticheler
FAO-UN
Tel: +39 06 57056041
http://www.fao.org/geon
etwork
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