Olivia Guyot

For data platforms, where thousands of datasets are stored and documented, interoperability is essential. These platforms often gather records from external sources, and they above all want to make their own data widely exploitable.

In the OGC world, you have a catalog to look for metadata/datasets, and the OGC API Features to fetch the data, paginate, filter and so on. The use cases have evolved since then and data consumers expect more complete abilities from their data catalogs.

This presentation is the follow up of the datahub paradigm presented last year: The confluence of geo data and open data. This time we will look at the metadata edition and maintenance aspect. Writing metadata to describe a dataset is an essential part of managing a catalog.

Open data movement has been very active and trendy lately. Many solutions brought fresh air in the metadata ecosystem. Nevertheless, no one really pushed forward the confluence of the open data world and the geo metadata world (often powered by ISO or INSPIRE standards).

ogc-client is a library written in Javascript for interacting with OGC services. It is simple to use and provides a nice and consistent way to operate OGC protocols.