[ckan-dev] Harvesting metadata and ISO19139

[David Read]

Ryan,

I'm no expert, but the ISO19139 spec is available to buy (!):

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=32557

although the XML schema is downloadable:

https://marinemetadata.org/references/iso19139

Conceivably you could write ISO19139 documents using that schema
plugged into a good XML editor e.g. XML Spy. But you're probably
better off using software written for spatial metadata, and I think
the biggies are: Esri (ArcCatalog?) and GeoNetworks (free).

In the UK, public spatial data is catalogued in the GEMINI2 format
which is compatible with ISO19139, only with stricter schemas. UK
Location currently provides a downloadable version of GeoNetworks with
configuration for this format, plus a user guide, which might be of
interest:
http://data.gov.uk/library/uk-location-metadata-editor-user-guide
http://data.gov.uk/library/uk-location-metadata-editor-download
(The guide also mentions an online version of it, but you won't have
access to that)

David

On 25 September 2013 16:00, Ryan Maine <balrogmi at msn.com> wrote:
> Maybe I didn't explain my problem clearly enough. I'll try to ask in
> another way for better understanding:
>
> - I installed harvest and spatial extensions
> - I tried a csw source from data.gov and it works fine importing the
> datasets to my site:
> http://catalog.data.gov/harvest/about/oer-geoportal --> perfect!
> - Now I want to define a waf source. This source consists in a folder
> that contains several xml files
> - The question is: what structure/schema does each xml need to
> complain in order to be harvested? I'm asking about the skeleton
>
> Documentation talks about ISO19139, but what exactly is it? Is there
> any document that describes the list of labels, properties, attributes
> of an iso19139 xml-complaint document???
>
>
> By the way, I tried also a WAF source from data.gov:
> http://arcticlcc.org/metadata --> but it fails with "Transformation to
> ISO failed"
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> 2013/9/16 Ryan Maine <balrogmi at msn.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Regarding to spatial harvesters, how can I write metadata documents
>> based in ISO19139? I don't know this standard. Where can I found
>> information about this standard in order to know how to write properly
>> documents in a WAF folder?
>>
>> I also took a look to some harvester sources at data.gov. For example:
>> http://catalog.data.gov/harvest/about/oer-geoportal
>>
>> What's the config field used for? How many different parameters can I
>> pass to the harvester in the config field? At data.gov most of times I
>> see "{"private_datasets": false}", is there any more parameters?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>
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