Catalogue Service Standard

This standard supports the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. They are required to support the discovery and binding to registered information resources within an information community.

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Document title	Version	OGC Doc No.	Type
OGC® Catalogue Services 3.0 - General Model	3.0	12-168r6	IS
OGC® Catalogue Services 3.0 Specification - HTTP Protocol Binding		12-176r7	IS
OGC® Catalogue Services Specification - HTTP protocol binding - Abstract Test Suite		14-014r3	TS
OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification	2.0.2	07-006r1	IS
Revision Notes for Corrigendum for OpenGIS 07-006: Catalogue Services, Version 2.0.2		07-010	ISC
OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile 1.0		13-084r2	ISx
CSW-ebRIM Registry Service - Part 1: ebRIM profile of CSW		07-110r4	IS
CSW-ebRIM Registry Service - Part 2: Basic extension package		07-144r4	IS
CSW-ebRIM Registry Service - Part 3: Abstract Test Suite		08-103r2	TS
OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.2 - ISO Metadata Application Profile: Corrigendum		07-045r2	ISC
OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.2 - ISO Metadata Application Profile: Corrigendum		07-045r1	ISC
OpenGIS Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.2 - ISO Metadata Application Profile		07-045	SAP
FGDC CSDGM Application Profile for CSW 2.0		06-129r1	BP
OGC® Catalogue Services Standard 2.0 Extension Package for ebRIM Application Profile: Earth Observation Products	1.0.0	06-131r6	IS
GML 3.1.1 Application Schema for EO products		06-080r4	SAP

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Overview

Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. Metadata in catalogues represent resource characteristics that can be queried and presented for evaluation and further processing by both humans and software. Catalogue services are required to support the discovery and binding to registered information resources within an information community.

OGC Catalogue interface standards specify the interfaces, bindings, and a framework for defining application profiles required to publish and access digital catalogues of metadata for geospatial data, services, and related resource information. Metadata act as generalised properties that can be queried and returned through catalogue services for resource evaluation and, in many cases, invocation or retrieval of the referenced resource. Catalogue services support the use of one of several identified query languages to find and return results using well-known content models (metadata schemas) and encodings.