GI-cat

"GI-cat features caching and mediation capabilities and can act as a broker towards disparate catalog and access services: by implementing metadata harmonization and protocol adaptation, it is able to transform query results to a uniform and consistent interface. GI-cat is based on a service-oriented framework of modular components and can be customized and tailored to support different deployment scenarios.

GI-cat can access a multiplicity of catalogs services, as well as inventory and access services to discover, and possibly access, heterogeneous ESS resources. Specific components implement mediation services for interfacing heterogeneous service providers which expose multiple standard specifications; they are called Accessors. These mediating components map the heterogeneous providers metadata models into a uniform data model which implements ISO 19115, based on official ISO 19139 schemas and its extensions Accessors also implement the query protocol mapping; they translate the query requests expressed according to the interface protocols exposed by GI-cat, into the multiple query dialects spoken by the resource service providers. Currently, a number of well-accepted catalog and inventory services are supported, including several OGC Web Services (e.g. WCS, WMS), THREDDS Data Server, SeaDataNet Common Data Index, and GBIF. A list of test endpoints is here available.

The supported sources are:

• OGC WCS 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.2 Specification Mapping details Configuration guide
• OGC WMS 1.3.0, 1.1.1 Specification Configuration guide
• OGC WFS 1.0.0 Specification Configuration guide
• OGC WPS 1.0.0 Specification
• OGC SOS 1.0.0 Specification
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 Core, AP ISO 1.0, ebRIM/CIM, ebRIM/EO, CWIC Specification Configuration guide
•  FLICKR Specification
• HDF Specification
• HMA CSW 2.0.2 ebRIM/CIM Test instance
• GeoNetwork (versions 2.2.0 and 2.4.1) catalog service
• Deegree (version 2.2) catalog service
• ESRI ArcGIS Geoportal (version 10) catalog service Specification Configuration guide
• WAF Web Accessible Folders 1.0 Specification
• FTP - File Transfer Protocol services populated with supported metadata
• THREDDS 1.0.1, 1.0.2 Specification Mapping details Configuration guide
• THREDDS-NCISO 1.0.1, 1.0.2 Specification Mapping details
• THREDDS-NCISO-PLUS 1.0.1, 1.0.2 Specification Mapping details
• CDI 1.04, 1.3, 1.4 Mapping details 1.6 Mapping details
• GI-cat 6.x, 7.x Specification
• GBIF Specification Configuring GBIF
• OpenSearch 1.1 accessor Specification
• OAI-PMH 2.0 (support to ISO19139 and dublin core formats) Specification
• NetCDF-CF 1.4 Specification Mapping details Configuration guide
• NCML-CF Specification Mapping details Configuration guide
• NCML-OD Specification
• ISO19115-2
• GeoRSS 2.0 RSS Specifcation GeoRSS Specification Mapping details
• GDACS Homepage
• DIF Specification Mapping
• File system Configuration guide
• SITAD (Sistema Informativo Territoriale Ambientale Diffuso) accessor
• INPE Web interface Mapping details
• HYDRO Specification Mapping details Example use case Implementation details
• EGASKRO Specification
• RASAQM Specification
• IRIS event Specification
• IRIS station Specification
• UNAVCO Specification
• KISTERS Web - Environment of Canada Kisters Environment Canada
• DCAT DCAT specification Guide to the DCAT accessor
• CKAN CKAN homepage Guide to the CKAN accessor
• HYRAX THREDDS SERVER 1.9 HYRAX homepage Configuring HYRAX
• EML 2.1.1 EML metadata language specification
• ARPA DB (based on Microsoft SQL)
• BCODMO Homepage
• Environment Canada Hydrometric data (FTP) Reference endpoint
• SHAPE files (FTP) ESRI Shapefile Technical Description
• Earth Engine
• ESRI Map Server
• FedEO FedEO Clearinghouse Homepage
• GrADS-DS GrADS Data Server Homepage
• IADC DB (MySQL)
• NERRS National Estuarine Research Reserve System
• OGC WMTS Web Map Tile Service Documentation

http://essi-lab.eu/do/view/GIcat

http://essi-lab.eu/do/view/GIcat/GIcatDocumentation

How to Configure GI-cat for the First Time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28biJHTQSrM

 http://bcube.geodab.eu/bcube-broker/

GI-go GeoBrowser - http://essi-lab.eu/do/view/GIgo/WebHome

http://www.earthcube.org/workspace/bcube/brokering-accessor-hack-thon