OSGeodata metadata exchange protocol
Aus Geoinformation HSR
This is part of a discussion around a geographic metadata model and an exchange protocol.
See also OSGeodataMetadataModel and generally OSGeodata.
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Overview
A protocol specification consists of requests (operations) and responses (information model encoded in a streaming format and error messages, as codes).
We distinguish specifically query/search protocols and harvesting procotols.
Protocol Approaches: Searching or Haresting?
Geographic Metadata Harvesting Protocol approaches and specifications:
- Use HTTP and XML ('autonomous discovery')
- OAI-PMH including a comparison with WFS (profiled)
Proposals
We tend to propose a harvesting approach which means, that in a first step XML files are published and in a second step OAI-PMH could be utilized.
Better name sought (catalogue is probably not the most appropriate noun):
- Geographic Metadata Syndication Protocol
- Geographic Metadata Harvesting Protocol
- Other proposals?
- Geographic Data Discovery Protocol
- Geographic Metadata Dissemination Protocol
Weblinks
- Simple Catalog Interface at OSGeo Wiki as well as the OSGeodata mailing list mentioned above
- OAI-PMH - including home, wikipedia, documents, tutorials, tools and demos
- Introduction to the IESR: A Registry of Collections and Services, by Hill and Ann Apps, MIMAS, Univ. of Manchester, 2006.
- Other
- OGC's CSW 2.0
- OGC's WFS