I heard yesterday that EPA is releasing a new version of their metadata tool , doing away with the access database and writing everything to xml files. It's being written in C#, but they plan on putting the source code on github. Not sure of the timeline.
Doug On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:19 AM, Matej Krejci <matejkre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > >> I was wondering was whether it would be possible to extract from pycsw >> just the part for reading/writing the xml meta-data, without all the >> overhead linked to its status as a server. >> > > >> >> More generally, I just think that we can't be the only ones working on >> metadata in a Python environment and that we maybe not have to reinvent the >> wheel. >> > > I got news that OWSLib can be used for parse XML according ISO without > dependence on pycsw server. In addition I found that there is a pycsw > package in UbuntuGIS and also there is a plan to develop package for Debian > with the development should start probably after couple of months. OWSLib > have dependence only on lxml so this is not a barrier. If we use OWSLib for > first task, it could to ensure a smoother continuity to develop second > task- pywps. > > Matej > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- Doug Newcomb USFWS Raleigh, NC 919-856-4520 ext. 14 doug_newc...@fws.gov --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The opinions I express are my own and are not representative of the official policy of the U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service or Dept. of the Interior. Life is too short for undocumented, proprietary data formats.
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