[ckan-dev] pycsw

[Tom Kralidis]

> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 00:09:14 +0200
> To: ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org
> From: ww at styx.org
> Subject: Re: [ckan-dev] pycsw
> 
> * [2011-05-29 18:18:00 +0100] Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com> écrit:
> 
> ] It's great to hear this. I think that the ability to offer a full CSW
> ] interface would be a great feature to add to CKAN.
> ] Tom and/or Will, did you agree some kind of plan / objectives?
> 
> I don't think we agreed anything susbstantial, just that it sounded
> like a good idea. Something vaguely like making a view to present
> pycsw with what it wants to see. In order to implement filters, pycsw
> will need to use postgres' XML processing on the harvested document
> which might mean some tweaking of the harvesting models. pycsw doesn't
> support postgres yet, only sqlite, so this could probably be done in
> parallel. Mostly up to you though.
> 

William/Adrià: we're working on support for additional underlying databases, I think a parallel install using sqlite3 for starters would be feasible.  Perhaps we can discuss further implementation details (here or irc)?

..Tom