CSW Harvesting¶
This harvester will connect to a remote CSW server and retrieve metadata records that match the query parameters specified.
Adding a CSW harvester¶
The figure above shows the options available:
Site - Options about the remote site.
Name - This is a short description of the remote site. It will be shown in the harvesting main page as the name for this instance of the CSW harvester.
Service URL - The URL of the capabilities document of the CSW server to be harvested. eg. http://geonetwork-site.com/srv/eng/csw?service=CSW&request=GetCabilities&version=2.0.2. This document is used to discover the location of the services to call to query and retrieve metadata.
Icon - An icon to assign to harvested metadata. The icon will be used when showing harvested metadata records in the search results.
Use account - Account credentials for basic HTTP authentication on the CSW server.
Search criteria - Using the Add button, you can add several search criteria. You can query only the fields recognised by the CSW protocol.
Options - Scheduling options.
Run at - The time when the harvester will run.
Will run again every - Choose an interval from the drop down list and then select the days for which this scheduling will take place.
One run only - Checking this box will cause the harvester to run only when manually started using the
Run
button on the Harvesting Management page.
Options - Specific harvesting options for this harvester.
Validate - If checked, the metadata will be validated after retrieval. If the validation does not pass, the metadata will be skipped.
Privileges - Assign privileges to harvested metadata.
Groups - Groups can be selected from the scrolling list. When the
Add
button is pushed, a row of privileges will be created below the scrolling list for each group. Privileges can then be checked/unchecked for each group as required.Remove - To remove a row click on the
Remove
button on the right of the row.
Categories
Select one or more categories from the scrolling list. The harvested metadata will be assigned to the selected categories.
Notes¶
in order to be successfully harvested, metadata records retrieved from the remote site must match a metadata schema in the local GeoNetwork instance