The complete manual By the developers V 2.4 Copyright © 2007-2009 The Open Source Geospatial Foundation Table of Contents Preface ..................................................................................................................................... vi I. User Guide ............................................................................................................................. 1 1. A Geographic Information Management System for all ..................................................... 2 1.1. Introduction ......................................................................................................... 2 What is GeoNetwork opensource ........................................................................ 2 Background and evolution .................................................................................. 2 The use of International Standards ..................................................................... 3 Harvesting geospatial data in a shared environment ............................................. 3 1.2. GeoNetwork and the Open Source Community Development ................................. 3 2. Getting Started ............................................................................................................... 5 2.1. Default Search .................................................................................................... 5 2.2. Searching by Categories ...................................................................................... 6 2.3. Advanced Search ................................................................................................ 7 2.4. Analysing Search Results .................................................................................. 10 2.5. Privileges, roles and user groups ........................................................................ 11 3. Viewing and Analysing the Data .................................................................................... 13 3.1. Meta Data Description ....................................................................................... 13 Identification Section ......................................................................................... 13 Distribution Section ........................................................................................... 16 Reference System Section ................................................................................ 16 Data Quality Section ......................................................................................... 17 Metadata Information Section ............................................................................ 17 4. Adding new Data and Information ................................................................................. 18 4.1. Creating a New Record using the Metadata Editor on line .................................... 19 The steps in more details ................................................................................. 19 Switching Editing Views from Default to Advanced to XML View .......................... 20 Using basic commands of the editor .................................................................. 22 4.2. Entering Metadata for your Map ......................................................................... 23 Entering Metadata For Your Map ...................................................................... 23 Creating a Thumbnail ....................................................................................... 25 Linking data for download ................................................................................. 26 Assigning Privileges for a Map .......................................................................... 27 Assigning Categories for a Map ........................................................................ 29 4.3. Uploading a New Record using the XML Metadata Insert Tool .............................. 29 5. Metadata in Spatial Data Management .......................................................................... 32 5.1. What is Metadata? ............................................................................................ 32 5.2. What are Metadata Standards? .......................................................................... 32 5.3. Why do we need Standardised Metadata? .......................................................... 32 5.4. Geographic Information Metadata Standard ......................................................... 32 5.5. Metadata profiles ............................................................................................... 33 5.6. Transition between metadata standards .............................................................. 33 6. Installing the software ................................................................................................... 34 6.1. New version - New functionalities ....................................................................... 34 6.2. Where do I get the installer? .............................................................................. 35 6.3. System requirements ......................................................................................... 35 Additional Software ........................................................................................... 35 Supported browsers ......................................................................................... 35 GeoNetwork opensource V 2.4 ii 6.4. How do I install GeoNetwork opensource? .......................................................... 36 On Windows .................................................................................................... 36 Installation using the platform independent installer ............................................ 37 Command line installation ................................................................................. 37 II. Administrator Guide .............................................................................................................. 39 7. Basic configuration ....................................................................................................... 40 7.1. System configuration ......................................................................................... 40 Site General site parameters. ............................................................................ 42 Catalogue services (CSW, Z39.50) .................................................................... 42 Proxy configuration ........................................................................................... 43 Email & notification ........................................................................................... 43 Removed metadata .......................................................................................... 44 Authentication .................................................................................................. 44 8. User and Group Administration ..................................................................................... 46 8.1. Creating new user Groups ................................................................................. 46 8.2. Creating new Users ........................................................................................... 48 8.3. User Profiles ..................................................................................................... 49 9. Import facilities ............................................................................................................. 51 9.1. File import ......................................................................................................... 51 XML file import ................................................................................................. 51 MEF file import ................................................................................................ 51 XML metadata insert ........................................................................................ 52 9.2. Batch import ...................................................................................................... 52 Structured import .............................................................................................. 53 10. Harvesting .................................................................................................................. 55 10.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 55 10.2. Mechanism overview ........................................................................................ 55 10.3. Harvesting life cycle ......................................................................................... 55 10.4. Multiple harvesting and hierarchies ................................................................... 56 10.5. General notes and issues ................................................................................ 56 General ............................................................................................................ 56 GeoNetwork harvesting type ............................................................................. 56 WebDAV harvesting type .................................................................................. 57 CSW harvesting type ........................................................................................ 57 OAI-PMH harvesting type ................................................................................. 57