Yamcat glues 2013

YAMCATYAMCAT

Open source spatial Open source spatial data management for data management for collaboration in projectscollaboration in projects

Thomas Mönkemeier, B.Eng.Thomas Mönkemeier, B.Eng.Prof. Dr. Tobia LakesProf. Dr. Tobia Lakes

Project CarBioCial SP09Project CarBioCial SP09Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Yet another catalog

• Catalog for Metadata• Search for metadata• Use or download geodata

• Geodata exchange for scientists• Developed for project CarBioCial• Personal repository per user• Geodata including XML-metadata

• Open Source Software• Web-Server with mySQL• PHP code on GitHub

Search by location

• Map with OpenStreetMap and OpenLayers• Click on a map to set

marker and search• Result: Records with

this position• Relevance by

geographic extent area

Search by category

• ISO 19139• Categories for

metadata• Essential for GDI• ArcGIS support

Search by keyword

• Quicksearch by mySQL fulltext search• Keywords clickable in

results

Search results

• List of results• Details page• „Actions“ only for

members• Download• WMS preview

(MapServer)• Edit• Delete

WMS client

• Preview WMS layers• Using OpenLayers• External WMS

servers• Geodata of users

• MapServer displays shapes and rasters• Mapfiles

automatically created by YAMCAT for shapes and rasters

Add metadata

• Online form for registered users• No fields

mandantory • Geographic

extent with OpenLayers • Simply draw

a bbox

Websites & Services

• Registered users may add URL for• Websites (where to

download geodata)• Services (e.g. WMS

„GetCapabilities“)

• YAMCAT retrieves and parses given URL• Metadata extraction• Complete meta data

information by manual edit afterwards

ArcGIS metadata support

• Registered users maintain a „repository“• Create one or more

„dataset“• Upload all files for a

given purpose

• Metadata created in XML files with ArcCatalog• ISO 19139 format

• Automatic transfer to catalog

GeoNetwork export

• GeoNetwork• OSGeo software• De-facto standard• CSW server

• Export metadata• ISO 19139 records• Spatial index in

PostGIS database• Remote server

• GLUES GDI• Distributed search

Go for it!

• Install YAMCAT• Needs simple webserver• Apache & PHP• mySQL• MapServer (optional)

• Collaborate metadata• Services• Websites• Newsfeeds

• Share geodata• Shapes• Raster • Datasets

Questions?

Feel free to ask now!

Contact:moenkemt@geo.hu-berlin.dehttp://gdi.carbiocial.de