Features

• certified OGC Compliant and OGC Reference Implementation
• harvesting support for WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, WAF, CSW, SOS
• implements INSPIRE Discovery Services 3.0
• implements ISO Metadata Application Profile 1.0.0
• implements FGDC CSDGM Application Profile for CSW 2.0
• implements the Search/Retrieval via URL (SRU) search protocol
• implements OpenSearch
• supports ISO, Dublin Core, DIF, FGDC and Atom metadata models
• CGI or WSGI deployment
• simple configuration
• transactional capabilities (CSW-T)
• flexible repository configuration
• GeoNode connectivity
• Open Data Catalog connectivity
• CKAN connectivity
• federated catalogue distributed searching
• realtime XML Schema validation
• extensible plugin architecture

Standards Support

• OGC CSW 2.0.2
• OGC Filter 1.1.0
• OGC OWS Common 1.0.0
• OGC GML 3.1.1
• OGC SFSQL 1.2.1
• Dublin Core 1.1
• SOAP 1.2
• ISO 19115 2003
• ISO 19139 2007
• ISO 19119 2005
• NASA DIF 9.7
• FGDC CSDGM 1998
• SRU 1.1
• A9 OpenSearch 1.1

Supported Operations

Request	Optionality	Supported	HTTP method binding(s)
GetCapabilities	mandatory	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
DescribeRecord	mandatory	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
GetRecords	mandatory	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
GetRecordById	optional	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
GetRepositoryItem	optional	yes	GET (KVP)
GetDomain	optional	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
Harvest	optional	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
Transaction	optional	yes	POST (XML) / SOAP

Note: Asynchronous processing supported for GetRecords and Harvest requests (via csw:ResponseHandler)

Supported Output Formats

• XML (default)
• JSON

Supported Output Schemas

• Dublin Core
• ISO 19139
• FGDC CSDGM
• NASA DIF
• Atom

Supported Sorting Functionality

• ogc:SortBy
• ascending or descending
• aspatial (queryable properties)
• spatial (geometric area)

Supported Filters

Full Text

• csw:AnyText

Geometry Operands

• gml:Point
• gml:LineString
• gml:Polygon
• gml:Envelope

Note: Coordinate transformations are supported

Spatial Operators

• BBOX
• Beyond
• Contains
• Crosses
• Disjoint
• DWithin
• Equals
• Intersects
• Overlaps
• Touches
• Within

Logical Operators

• Between
• EqualTo
• LessThanEqualTo
• GreaterThan
• Like
• LessThan
• GreaterThanEqualTo
• NotEqualTo
• NullCheck

Functions

• length
• lower
• ltrim
• rtrim
• trim
• upper