Break Out Sessions – Catalogs

What standard components should we adopt now?

- THREDDS and GCMD

- We ought to support the ISO 1911x standards. Question is whether everyone has access to the standard.

- It would be nice to put existing ESP ISO 19115 schemas on the ESP web site for other projects to learn from when creating catalogs

- We discussed that there may be different levels of catalog information. A higher level ‘discovery’ type catalog and an inventory level catalog that contains more detailed information on individual holdings. How these levels interoperate within ESP was not clear.

- Discussed the dichotomy of users, such as expert users versus less knowledgeable users.

What software could meet ESP requirements?

- Need to continue to investigate tools to harvest from files, to jump start the metadata. It would be nice to have any harvesting scripts listed on the ESP web site

- More metadata authoring tools and list the existing ones on the ESP web site.

Where should we push new technologies?

- develop DocBuilder to support an generic XML schema or DTD to support other

- Tools should be extensible to support other XML schema describing Metadata such as ISO

- Create a repository of XML crosswalks and the related XSLT style sheets.

- We request each to have a published SOAP API for interoperability and look for as much commonality as possible or necessary with the OpenGIS community.

- Further, we suggest investigating the creation of a UDDI registry for ESP