To reach the thesaurus administration page you have to be logged in as an administrator. From the administration page, click the link ”Manage thesaurii”. Figure 5.3 shows the list of thesaurus available in the GeoNetwork node. The page shows a list of thesaurus that have been created or imported. The upper part of the page allows user to edit/add/modify/consult thesaurus. The lower part allows upload of thesaurus in SKOS format.
To create a new thesaurus, click the ”+” sign in the category you want your thesaurus to be in. Once created, the thesaurus could be updated through the edit interface. The meaning of each column is as follows:
Type The type allows to classify thesaurus according to its type. First, is defined the type of the thesaurus following ISO category list, then the type indicates if the thesaurus is a local one or an external one. Name This is the thesaurus’s name provided by the administrator on creation or filename on upload. When creating a thesaurus, the name of the thesaurus will be the filename of the thesaurus.
For each thesaurus the following buttons are available:
Download Link to the rdf file. Delete Remove thesaurus from the current node. View If type is external, the view button allows to search and view concepts. Edit If type is local, the edit button allows to search, add, remove and view concepts.
GeoNetwork allows thesaurus import in SKOS format. Once uploaded, an external
thesaurus could not be updated. Select the category, browse for the thesaurus
file and click upload. The file is located in
/web/xml/codelist/external/thesauri/category/.
At the bottom of the page there are the following buttons:
Back Go back to the main administration page. Upload Upload the selected rdf file to the node. Then it will list all thesaurus available on the node.