Moving to the geonode mailing list, as this is getting technical. That all makes sense.
> The metadata sounds good. It would be preferable if we could have it go to > the user account, but if that is significantly more difficult then having > the admin account is fine. > To be clear, the admin account here would be _a_ user account, it would just be an account set to have administrative privileges in the GeoNode configuration. > There is going to have to be able to be some configurability within the > Batch uploader no matter what as there will have to be able to be the > ability to select which GeoNode instance the user is selecting, if during > that process it is determined that also passing a specific users credentials > is not significantly more work that would be best. > The issue is that the batch uploader will be configured to point at a particular GeoServer instance, not a particular GeoNode instance, for the purpose of decoupling the technology. We were talking about passing the credential through to the web app to assign ownership, but it's a little cloudy to plan that out since we haven't yet implemented the security sharing system and so we don't know the unknown unknowns there. I agree that this is a desirable feature in the long run. > Alternatively, if we use the first pass solution of assigning to the admin > we need to be able for the admin to select multiple files when re-assigning > metadata ownership so that the admin does not need to go through the process > for each file. > > ** > That's a good point about the UI on this. I bet there's a way to get the Django admin API to do these batch operations. Will look into it. > * From: *Sebastian Benthall [[email protected]] > > * Sent: *06/15/2010 05:21 PM AST > * To: *Galen Burr Evans > * Subject: *Batch Uploader and Metadata > > > Hi Galen, > > We've been hammering out the spec for the batch uploader, and I wanted to > run a couple details by you to make sure we're on the same page about it. > > First, we want to allow users to be able to batch upload metadata. For the > format for this, we were thinking the metadata would be in XML format in a > way that conforms to ISO19139, which is the same standard of which the World > Bank standards you sent to me earlier are a subset. > > Second, there was the question of which GeoNode users winds up owning data > that is batch uploaded. We think the most solid way to do it on a first > pass is to have anything batch uploaded to a GeoNode owned by the site > administrative user by default. That user can then reassign ownership as > needed (once those features are in place.) We can expand this functionality > in the future if users demand it. > > Does this work for you as the deliverables for the first round on th batch > uploader? > > -- > Sebastian Benthall > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > > -- Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
