[GeoNetwork-devel] Purpose of categories

[Jesse E. <jes...@ca...>]

Hi,

I have recently been looking into the categories in geonetwork.  The
categories I am refering to are when you go to metadata.show.  There is an
option to select the categories the metadata is part of.  What is the
purpose of these categories?

My theory is not all metadata formats support category elements and
therefor this provides an overarching method of categorizing all metadata,
but I really don't know.

I see in the documentation a page on ISO categories but they do not seem to
be the same thing.  They are elements within the metadata document right?

Jesse