[ckan-dev] GeoNode harvester

Wed Jun 3 14:55:34 UTC 2015

On Wed, 3 Jun 2015, Emanuele Tajariol wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 14:13:48 +0200
> From: Emanuele Tajariol <etj at geo-solutions.it>
> Reply-To: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>
> To: CKAN Development Discussions <ckan-dev at lists.okfn.org>
> Subject: [ckan-dev] GeoNode harvester
> 
> Hi list,
>
> if anyone is interested, we implemented a CKAN harvester for GeoNode.
> You can find it here:
>   https://github.com/geosolutions-it/ckanext-geonode
>
> GeoNode does provide a CSW endpoint, but there are some inconsistencies here
> and there, such as a really long resource list for layer records, and some
> difficulty in telling the resource type when harvesting a map. This harvester
> bypasses such issues by retrieving the records using GeoNode's own API.
>
> Comments are welcome.

Thanks, looks great!

I'd be interested in collaborating on the CSW issues/inconsistencies as we
are implementing enhancements making to the CSW outbound endpoint in GeoNode.

..Tom