pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification [Catalogue Service for the Web]. Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU). Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X). Please read the docs at https://pycsw.org/docs for more information.
Currently, the codebase is a simple download and configure approach. Add support for installation via setup.py. This will add support for properly referencing dependencies, and generating various templates/etc., at install time.
I did some refactoring in r524 and r525 to make the overall install in this context a bit cleaner.
Note that the PyWPS project has implemented this as part of their codebase (https://svn.wald.intevation.org/svn/pywps/trunk), which can help w.r.t. ideas for layout/install locations, etc.
tomkralidis
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12 years ago
Currently, the codebase is a simple download and configure approach. Add support for installation via setup.py. This will add support for properly referencing dependencies, and generating various templates/etc., at install time.