[ckan-dev] OpenSearch support for INSPIRE

Mon Apr 8 16:24:41 UTC 2013

Hi Adrià, Armin & Angelos,

@Adrià: Your assumption is exactly what i meant. Thanks for the insights.

I'll go ahead then and implement OpenSearch as a CKAN an extension.

Best, Philipp

On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi Philipp,
>
> > On 04/05/2013 06:20 PM, Philipp Küng wrote:
> > CKAN is already supporting the import of INSPIRE conform sources via the
> > spacial extension. However afaik from looking at the ckan source there's
> no
> > OpenSearch (getting datasets by a geo-region bounding box) built into it
> > right now.
>
> I think there are a couple of things mixed here. As you said, you can
> import ISO19139 based documents via the harvesters present on
> ckanext-spatial. These support CSW and WAF sources.
>
> Once the datasets are imported into CKAN, the spatial extension
> provides a bounding box based search for retrieving datasets (BTW we
> are currently working on a new widget for CKAN 2.0 and significant
> improvements on the backend for this)
>
> Neither the import of datasets via harvesting nor the bounding box
> based search support OpenSearch (I assume you are meaning this [1]). I
> don't think adding support for it is in our Roadmap, but we can give
> you some guidance in you wanted to implement this as an extension.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrià
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/Extensions/Geo/1.0/Draft_2
>
>
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>
>
>
>
> > Is this feature planned for a future version? In case it's planned but
> you
> > need more people i'd be happy to help get it done faster.
> >
> > Best, Philipp
> >
> >
> >
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> > Angelos Tzotsos
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