GeoNetwork data directory

Date	2012/03/09
Contact(s)	François Prunayre
Last edited
Status	Ongoing
Assigned to release	2.7.0
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Overview

The GeoNetwork data directory is the location on the file system where GeoNetwork stores all of its custom configuration. This configuration defines such things as: What thesaurus is used by GeoNetwork? What schema is plugged in GeoNetwork?. The data directory also contains a number of support files used by GeoNetwork for various purposes (eg. Lucene index, spatial index, logos).

It is a good idea to define an external data directory when going to production in order to make upgrade easier.

Proposal Type

• Type: Core Change
• App: GeoNetwork
• Module: Config

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Voting History

• Vote proposed by François Prunayre on 2012/03/XX, result was ...

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Proposal

Structure of the data directory

• data_directory/
  • codelist: The thesaurus in SKOS format
  • config: Extra configuration (eg. overrides)
    • schemaplugin-uri-catalog.xml
    • JZKitConfig.xml
  • metadata_data: The data related to metadata records
  • index: All indexes used for search
    • nonspatial: Lucene index
    • spatialindex.*: ESRI Shapefile for the index (if not using PostGIS)
  • resources:
    • htmlcache
    • images
      • harvesting
      • logo
      • statTmp
  • removed: Folder with removed metadata.
  • svn_repository: The subversion repository
  • schemaPlugins: The directory used to store new metadata standards

Backwards Compatibility Issues

Risks

Participants

• Francois Prunayre