Describing information

This section describes how to catalog resources. First, user needs to choose a standard to use. In general, the following rules apply:

• Dublin core usually used for open data portal, referencing publication, report, ...
• ISO 19115/119/139 used for spatial resources (eg. datasets, services, maps)
• ISO 19110 used for feature attribute table

The editor form provides uploading of data, graphics, documents, pdf files and any other content type. It supports among others:

• full standard support
• multilingual metadata editing,
• validation system,
• suggestion system to improve metadata quality
• geopublication of layers to publish geodata layers in OGC services (eg. GeoServer)

Todo

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• Managing templates
• Creating a new record
• Importing a new record
• Editing metadata
• Deleting a record
• Multilingual editing
• Describing resources for the INSPIRE directive

Based on user profiles (see Creating user), a dashboard provides easy access to their information and tasks.