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Distribute your catalog in CSW (harvesting)

Once created, your data catalog can be harvested by any CSW client, such as regional Geographic Data Infrastructures (GDIs) and GIS applications (e.g. QGIS, GeoNetwork, GeoSource).

Info

In on-premises mode, the URL of the CSW (API Services) must be made publicly accessible.

How to proceed

To activate catalog harvesting, simply :

  1. In the Administration > Sharing menu, click on New;
  2. Click on the gear-shaped button ;
  3. Select the CSW application;
  4. Select the catalog(s) to be published;
  5. Name the share ;
  6. Save.

The URL of the CSW web service provided by Isogeo has a secure key (token). You can renew the service's security key. If you do so, remember to communicate this new URL to the recipient(s)!

Possible uses :

  • to be harvested by the geocatalogue ;
  • be harvested by another INSPIRE node by sending the generated URL to the third-party client manager;
  • consult catalogs in software with a good CSW client (e.g. QGIS).
CSW server

One service, many catalogs

When a CSW share is created with several catalogs inside, one CSW service URL is created per catalog. It may be useful to provide only one at the harvesting point.

To do this, simply remove the catalog identifier from the URL, always prefixed with c/ here isolated in red :

http:// services.api.isogeo.com/ows/s/77c4ab4d358d47e9aff30b550df007f9/c/27fb10c606ed40d89673130bb12b44ed/_O0ZrGFaAOC2XImyQb5UneFcyXLD0?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetCapabilities

CSW server technical specifications

The CSW server is based on GeoSIK, a free, open-source .NET library developed by Isogeo to facilitate the implementation of standardized OGC services.

It complies with version 1.0 of the ISO profile of version 2.0.2 of the CSW standard.