/core-geonetwork

GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an interactive web map viewer. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world.

Primary LanguageJavaGNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

GeoNetwork Open-source

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Features

  • Immediate search access to local and distributed geospatial catalogues
  • Uploading and downloading of data, graphics, documents, pdf files and any other content type
  • An interactive Web Map Viewer to combine Web Map Services from distributed servers around the world
  • Online editing of metadata with a powerful template system
  • Scheduled harvesting and synchronization of metadata between distributed catalogs
  • Support for OGC-CSW 2.0.2 ISO Profile, OAI-PMH, SRU protocols
  • Fine-grained access control with group and user management
  • Multi-lingual user interface

Documentation

User documentation is managed in the geonetwork/doc repository covering all releases of GeoNetwork.

The docs folder includes geonetwork/doc as a git submodule. This documentation is compiled into html pages during a release for publishing on the geonetwork-opensource.org website.

Developer documentation located in README.md files in the code-base:

  • General documentation for the project as a whole is in this README.md
  • Software Development Documentation provides instructions for setting up a development environment, building Geonetwork, compiling user documentation, and making a releases
  • Module specific documentation can be found in each module (assuming there is module specific documentation required)