Harvest individual WMS layers

[mhogeweg]

Some WMS services include dozens and sometimes hundreds of layers. They essentially operate as a kind of catalog on their own. Apart from the top-level service metadata, individual layers can also have metadata, including title, abstract, extent, and reference to a full XML metadata document.

The input broker could be used to just harvest the entire WMS into a single entry. Similar to the ArcGIS Server input broker, the WMS input broker can have an 'Enable Layers' option. When checked, harvesting WMS would use the service level metadata combined with layer level metadata to construct a single ISO 19119 representation of the layer that can be published to the target broker.

This broker would have input fields:

• title
• URL
• username/password
• enable layers (true/false)