tommy's scratchpad

If you have existing metadata and simply want a CSW interface as a means to search and discover your geospatial metadata, eXcat provides a simple solution.  Following the installation steps, it’s quite simple to populate your CSW:

$ cd excat/csw/WEB-INF/harvest
$ tar zxf my_metadata_files.tgz
$ for i in *.xml
> do
> lwp-download "http://localhost/excat/csw?request=Harvest&service=CSW&\
> version=2.0.2\&namespace=xmlns(csw=http://www.opengis.net/cat/csw)&\
> source=$i&resourceFormat=application/xml\
> &resourceType=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd"
> done

That’s pretty much it.  Lightweight simple approach, particularly for those who already have metadata management tools in place and need CSW.

/me thinks it would be nice to have a Python port of this for those in Java-less environments (why does it seem most CSW server implementations are in Java?)