CSW¶
Overview¶
Catalogue Service for the Web (CSW) is a catalogue service support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. Metadata in catalogues represent resource characteristics that can be queried and presented for evaluation and further processing by both humans and software. Catalogue services are required to support the discovery and binding to registered information resources within an information community.
In SAEOSS portal, we implemented pycsw to allow the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata via numerous APIs.
pycsw configuration¶
There are many ways to install pycsw, but in SAEOSS we install it via docker. After building the project, there is a
container called saeoss-pycsw-1
After running the docker-compose, the CSW page is visible at http://localhost:5001/
Generate pycsw DB view¶
To be able to access the portal's datasets via various OGC standards and on CSW web page, a materialized view must be created into the database and integrated into pycsw.