GeoNetwork Workshop

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Overview ​

GeoNetwork is an INSPIRE-compliant Geospatial Metadata Catalog.

Versions ​

The latest version of GeoNetwork at time of writing is 4.4.6. The 4.4.x is a stable branch receiving all new features and bugfixes.

The 4.2.x branch receives bugfixes and small quality-of-life improvements.

Other branches (4.0.x, 3.x...) are no longer maintained.

All versions of GeoNetwork are available on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/geonetwork/files/GeoNetwork_opensource/

Requirements ​

GeoNetwork relies on the following externals:

  • A database
    • GeoNetwork stores many things in the database: metadata records, application settings, groups and users, harvesters, privileges, validation runs, etc.
    • by default GeoNetwork uses an H2 embedded database for simplicity (not suited for production)
    • in production PostgreSQL is often used but GeoNetwork also supports Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server
    • supports JNDI connection
  • An ElasticSearch cluster
    • Elasticsearch is the workhorse of GeoNetwork's search engine
    • Metadata records are stored in the database and indexed regularly and automatically in ElasticSearch

System requirements are:

  • Operating system: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
  • Memory: from 8GB for small catalogs (~2.000 records) to 32GB for large ones (50.000+ records)
  • CPU: 2 to 4 cores

Schema plugins ​

GeoNetwork can work with any metadata schema through the use of plugins. By default, the following plugins are included:

  • Dublin Core
  • ISO 19139 (along with ISO 19110)
  • ISO 19115-3

Schema plugins are found in the schemas folder.

Back-end ​

Most backend functions of GeoNetwork now rely on Spring Framework and projects that revolve around it (Spring-security, JPA / Hibernate ...).

Some remaining services still rely on Jeeves and are pending migration to Spring.

Front-end ​

The built-in front-end of GeoNetwork is built using AngularJS. Various efforts have arisen in the past few years to modernize this front-end, one of them being the GeoNetwork-UI project which now has its own community and roadmap.

You will have the chance to deploy GeoNetwork-UI apps later on in this workshop!