On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Freeman, Aleda (EEA) <[email protected]> wrote: > MassGIS does add extra params to point to external metadata sources. :) > Here's what we do: In the keywords section we have one metadata URL and > zero or more extract doc URLs. Our main viewer client software OLIVER is > programmed to grab the content at these URLs and bundle it with the shapefile > extracted from GeoServer. > > For example, our layer massgis:GISDATA.SCHOOLS_PT has these keywords: > > MassgisMetadataUrl=http://www.mass.gov/mgis/hospitals.htm > ExtractDoc=http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/metadata/GISDATA.HOSPITALS_PT.xml > ExtractDoc=http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/avls/hosp_er.avl > ExtractDoc=http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/lyrs/Hospitals.lyr > > The .htm is easy human readable metadata, the .xml is a shapefile XML > metadata exported from SDE, the .avl is an old ESRI ArcView 3.x symbolization > file (probably no one wants these anymore but I haven't taken the time to > strip the keywords out), and the .lyr is an ESRI ArcMap symbolization file. > > We wanted to do this because we dislike distributing data without any > metadata. We could expand later or other content - Word or PDF docs or > videos we feel they are essential to "go with" the dataset. > > I think GEOS-4199 is great, but I'd be concerned about a name conflict with > the ESRI XML metadata file. I think we'd like to keep layer-name-in-sde.xml, > because I think ESRI ArcMap automatically looks for that naming scheme. > Maybe the GeoServer metadata version could be called something like > GS.GISDATA.HOSPITALS_PT.xml? GS prefix for GeoServer? Just a thought.
GEOS-4199 is not going to add any metadata, we're just chatting about possible extensions to the traceability concept. If/when someone implements that another jira will be opened I guess? I have no need for it at the moment, however anyone interest in this extra functionality is welcomed to join the part and add a separate patch :-) Btw, I thought the ESRI metadata naming convention was .shp.xml, but you say it's plain .xml instead? Cheers Andrea > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime Senior Software Engineer GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584962313 fax: +39 0584962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
