OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.1 (with Corrigendum) - ISO Metadata Application Profile (CSW2 AP ISO): RFP

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Please note: This Request is closed. The documents listed below have been adopted by the OGC Technical and Planning Committee. These specifications are under control of the specification Revision Working Group and will be released after the edits and revisions. For the most current version please check our Standards Page.

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is contemplating adoption of a technology called OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.1 (with Corrigendum) - ISO Metadata Application Profile (CSW2 AP ISO). OGC invites public comment on a candidate specification that will soon be presented for approval by OGC members as an OpenGIS(R) Implementation Specification. The purpose of this Request for Public Comment (RFPC) is to obtain comments on the proposal for technologies and needed Application Profile required for OpenGIS® Catalogue Services Specification 2.0.1 (with Corrigendum) - ISO Metadata Application Profile (CSW2 AP ISO). Documentation of this draft specification can be downloaded here:

Candidate Submission: Fri, 2006-01-20 15:00
Close request period: Fri, 2006-03-10 15:00
TC and PC vote to issue request: Thu, 2006-04-20 15:00
Begin request period: Sat, 2006-05-20 15:00
 

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This application profile document specifies the interfaces, bindings, and encodings required to publish and access digital catalogues of metadata for geospatial data, services, and applications that comply with the given profile. 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 resources.
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