Hey All, On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:28 +0100, Simone Giannecchini wrote: > FYI, GeoNetwork 3.0 which is under development will implement ebRIM > and will heavily based on spring (which can be considered somewhat an > alternative to ejb3) and hibernate.
Yes, everyone seems to be moving to ebRIM since the OGC has. MDweb is hoping to move that way this year as well though I am not sure of the detailed plans. The MDweb2 metamodel predates the rise of ebRIM at the OGC. However, because MDweb2 is based on a metamodel, those working on the system do expect any great difficulties in reformulating that metamodel to handle ebRIM. > Just so that you know, GeoNetwork is the > de-facto standard for CSW since it is implemented almost everywhere, > even, if my memory serves me right, behind the INSPIRE GeoPortal :-). Metadata cataloging of Geospatial resources has been such a widespread effort that it is unlikely that there is any overall standard except in very specific information communities. Different information communities, in different domains, language groups, or partnerships, have all arrived at different standards. GeoNetwork seems to be a powerful solution, and quite popular around the OGC, but there are likely to be others. MDweb has been growing in its own community, which I believe was originally centered around hydrology in Africa. This year, MDweb is being evaluated in a twenty country, thirty partner effort, to assess its potential as a foundation of Europe's biodiversity cataloging. So MDweb may well become a standard tool of that particular community. MDweb will certainly play a role in what should be a diverse, exciting, interoperable, European geo-information infrastructure. --adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
