Preface

About this Project. This document provides guidelines to use and customize the GeoNetwork opensource software. This project started out as a Spatial Data Catalog System for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP). At present the project is widely used as the basis of Spatial Data Infrastructures all around the world. The project is part of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and can be found at http://geonetwork-opensource.org.

License Information.  Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

You are free to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work. Under the following conditions:

You may obtain a copy of the License at Creative Commons

The document is written in DocBook format for consistency and portability.

Author Information. This framework and documentation was written by the GeoNetwork opensource Developers. If you have questions, found a bug or have enhancements, please contact us through the GeoNetwork opensource Development Mailing list at


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