On 23/08/2012 6:31 a.m., Chris Holmes wrote:
>  But CSW in GeoServer should make it easier for GeoNetwork to harvest 
> information from GeoServers, and to just follow a philosophy of 
> keeping the metadata close to the data.
Yes, this is precisely my interest. There is this complicated problem 
with metadata - where to keep it. Ideally, you keep it with the data and 
let likes of geonetwork harvest it. Ditto for geoserver - if its 
metadata handling mapped better to source and to geonetwork, then 
keeping things in sync is easily. The problem I have is that geoserver 
can use all kind of data sources. Geonetwork can harvest from say SDE 
and from geoserver but how to control the harvester when the same 
dataset is in arcSDE and also exposed in Geoserver? On the other hand, 
for some data sources, geoserver lets us build metadata when there is no 
standard close to the data and no harvester for geonetwork. We have been 
hacking around with geonetwork harvesters to resolve this. A consistent 
picture and a way to expose to geonetwork harvesters whether the 
metadata is created in geoserver or fetched from another source would be 
good.
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