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The complete manual

By the developers

V 2.2

Table of Contents

Preface

I. User Guide

1. A Geographic Information Management System for all

1.1. Introduction

What is GeoNetwork opensource
Background and evolution
The use of International Standards
Harvesting geospatial data in a shared environment

1.2. GeoNetwork and the Open Source Community Development

2. Getting Started

2.1. Default Search
2.2. Searching by Categories
2.3. Advanced Search
2.4. Analyzing Search Results
2.5. Privileges, roles and user groups

3. Viewing and Analyzing the Data

3.1. Meta Data Description

Identification Section
Distribution Section
Reference System Section
Data Quality Section
Metadata Information Section

4. Adding new Data and Information

4.1. Creating a New Record using the Metadata Editor on line

The steps in more details
Switching Editing Views from Default to Advanced to XML View
Using basic commands of the editor

4.2. Entering Metadata for your Map

Entering Metadata For Your Map
Creating a Thumbnail
Linking data for download
Assigning Privileges for a Map
Assigning Categories for a Map

4.3. Uploading a New Record using the XML Metadata Insert Tool

5. Metadata in Spatial Data Management

5.1. What is Metadata?
5.2. What are Metadata Standards?
5.3. Why do we need Standardized Metadata?
5.4. Geographic Information Metadata Standard
5.5. Metadata profiles
5.6. Transition between metadata standards

6. Installing the software

6.1. New version - New funtionalities

6.2. Where do I get the installer?

6.3. System requirements

Additional Software
Supported browsers

6.4. How do I install GeoNetwork opensource?

On Windows
Installation using the platform independent installer
Commandline installation

7. Administration Features

7.1. Creation of new Group Profiles
7.2. User Profiles
7.3. Creation of new User Profiles

II. Administrator Guide

8. Basic configuration

8.1. System configuration
8.2. Localization of dynamic user interface elements

9. Import facilities

9.1. Batch import

Structured import

10. Harvesting

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Mechanism overview

10.3. Harvesting lifecycle

10.4. Multiple harvesting and hierarchies

10.5. General notes and issues

General
GeoNetwork harvesting type
WebDAV harvesting type
CSW harvesting type
OAI-PMH harvesting type

10.6. The main page

Harvesting result tips

10.7. Adding new nodes

Adding a GeoNetwork node
Adding a Web DAV node
Adding a CSW node
Adding an OAI-PMH node

11. Metadata ownership

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Access policy

Visualization
Editing

11.3. Privileges

11.4. Ownership transfer

12. Thesaurus

12.1. Introduction

12.2. Thesaurus / SKOS format

12.3. Thesaurus administration

Creation of a new thesaurus
Import existing thesaurus

12.4. Editing/browsing thesaurus: add/remove/browse keywords

12.5. Metadata editing: adding keywords

12.6. Search criteria: keywords

13. GeoNetwork’s Administrator Survival Tool - GAST

13.1. What is GAST?
13.2. Starting GAST
13.3. Operating modes
13.4. Tools subdivision
13.5. Server and Account configuration dialog

14. Import / export tools

14.1. Introduction
14.2. Import
14.3. Export

III. Server Reference

15. Software development

15.1. System Requirements

15.2. Running the software with a servlet engine

15.3. Development

Compiling GeoNetwork
Source code documentation
Creating the installer

16. Harvesting

16.1. Structure

Javascript code
Java code
XSL stylesheets

16.2. Data storage

16.3. Guidelines

17. Metadata Exchange Format v1.1

17.1. Introduction

17.2. File format

17.3. The info.xml file

Date format

18. XML Services

18.1. Calling specifications

Calling XML services
Exception handling

18.2. General services

xml.info
xml.forward

18.3. Harvesting services

Introduction
xml.harvesting.get
xml.harvesting.add
xml.harvesting.update
xml.harvesting.remove/start/stop/run

18.4. System configuration

Introduction
xml.config.get
xml.config.update

18.5. MEF services

Introduction
mef.export
mef.import
Metadata ownership

18.6. Relations

Introduction
xml.relation.get

18.7. Schema information

Introduction
xml.schema.info

19. Settings hierarchy

19.1. Introduction

19.2. The system hierarchy

19.3. Harvesting nodes

Nodes of type geonetwork
Nodes of type geonetwork20
Nodes of type webdav
Nodes of type csw

A. Frequently Asked Questions

B. Glossary of Metadata Fields Description

C. ISO Topic Categories

D. Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Information Systems

D.1. Web Map Server software
D.2. GIS Desktop software
D.3. Web Map Viewers

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