A web based Metadata Catalog Server for data description and discovery. Supports both generic and geospatial data discovery. It implements international standards (e.g. ISO19115/19139/19119, ISO19115-3, DCAT-AP, CSW 2.0, OGC API Records). It originates from the United Nations and is used by many governments as geoportal software.

Active development and discussion takes place on GitHub and OSGeo Discourse. You can also connect directly with the companies supporting the development.

Source code available on github https://github.com/geonetwork/

Features

  • INSPIRE Discovery Service and Search Panel
  • Catalog interfaces (a.o. OGC CSW, OGC API Records, INSPIRE, OpenSearch)
  • OpenLayers based OGC map viewer
  • Multilingual metadata editing and viewing
  • Metadata harvesting from multiple sources (OGC CSW/WMS/WFS/WCS/WPS, WebDAV, SFTP, OpenAPI, ArcSDE, GeoNetwork, Local filesystem)
  • Metadata schema and schematron validation with error reporting
  • LDAP, CAS & Shibboleth authentication support, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID
  • Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac. Both server and desktop

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Languages

Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque (Euskara), Belarusian, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh

Intended Audience

Education, End Users/Desktop, Government, Non-Profit Organizations, Other Audience, Science/Research

User Interface

Angular, Web-based

Programming Language

Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, XSL (XSLT/XPath/XSL-FO)

Database Environment

JDBC, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Other file-based DBMS, PostgreSQL (pgsql)

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2003-01-21