The Open Geospatial Consortium has provided specifications for Metadata Catalog Servers, which have been implemented by various Catalog Systems such as Geonetwork, Excat, Deegree etc.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Geospatial Catalogs and Catalog Servers
Geospatial Catalogs are specialized catalog servers that store metadata on spatial data - i.e, they describe the data stored in maps and what not, in a central location. As with any metadata storage, this allows the meta-data to be searched and queried in various forms, thus providing users with an easy and efficient way of identifying the required source data.
