Update on developments in the first Quarter of 2007

Work has been concentrated on a couple of aspects of the project lately. They are:

• Development of GeoNetwork opensource version 2.1 resulting in beta releases

• Upgrading of the ​Community website

• Work related to the OSGEO incubation process

Development of version 2.1

A lot of development has been going over the last 9 months. Many new functions have been added and existing ones have been enhanced. The plan is to release a final version 2.1 of the catalog software towards the end of April 2007. Here's a summary of what has been developed for this release:

• Support for the ISO-19115 metadata standard, formatted and validated against the ISO-19139 implementation schema. Read more and also refer to the ISO19115 / 19139 confusion for more details on those standards.

• Support for the OGC Catalog Services for the Web (OGC-CSW 2.0.1) base specification, based on the ISO application profile. Read more

• Web based harvesting configuration, scheduling and monitoring between GeoNetwork opensource nodes and from Web accessible folders Read more

• Embedded thesaurus support, both in the metadata editor and in the search

• Simplified installation, upgrade and migration with functionality moved to the Web based configuration and to the stand alone GeoNetwork Administration Survival Tool (GAST)

• Improved multi-lingual support with online translation functionality for categories, regions etc...