Planning page

Release schedule

• Monday 21 May: beta 2 release
• Monday 17 June: Release Candidate of GeoNetwork version 2.1
• Monday 2 July: Final release GN v2.1.0
• Monday 9 September: Release Candidate GN v2.2
• Thursday 20 September: Final release GN 2.2. This is just before the FOSS4G and the Intergeo conferences taking place in the week of 23 September

Planned functionality for version 2.1

Version 2.1 will, beyond the functionality that has already been added, have the following new functionality:

• Privileges handling and metadata ownership (individual metadata ownership besides the group ownership)
• password encryption in database (including migration process update)
• Use of MEF format for data backup when deleting content
• Improve online help system (show help as tooltips)
• Improved search (filters for printable maps, raw data, reports, interactive maps)
• WEBDAV harvesting support (harvest metadata published on webdav folders) optionally:
• Improve workflow to allow review of content before it is published
• Add content review/ rating by users options to interface to allow users to rate content and search on these ratings.
• Integration of InterMap opensource 2.1, the web map client.
• A number of editor improvements
• Bug fixes
• Harvesting of GN 2.0 nodes content from a GN 2.1 node. This will be made available as an update to GeoNetwork 2.0.3 based nodes and will have the form of a single geonetwork.jar library to replace the current (v2.0.3) one.

Planned functionality for version 2.2

Version 2.2 will have the following added functionality:

• GUI improvements based on the outcome of two usability assessments
• Simple LDAP authentication to allow authentication against corporate authentication system
• Plain text version (for low bandwidth searching)
• CSW harvesting
• Open Archive Initiative (OAI) server and client (harvesting) support + administration interface
• Notification system for system administrators in GeoNetwork software:
  • A client thread to send a keep alive message to the server;
  • Using the keep alive messages, the server provides a list of users/ hosts currently active. An administrator service will be added to show the list of connected users;
  • The new administrative page that displays the active users provides the administrator the option to send a message to all or single users;
  • The text message will be presented on the client browser;
  • A maintenance password will be used to avoid logins before a scheduled reboot, or while testing the system. This prevents users to connect to an unstable system.

InterMap improvements:

• Export/print functionality to InterMap to export maps in pdf or geotiff format
• Export in GEOTIFF (image with internal geo-reference)
• Export in PDF format. Add a dialogue to set the title, north arrow, scale, page orientation, visible layer legends, copyright info
• “Email this map to” support, using Web Map Context support already available in InterMap The HTML based mail will provide:
  • Thumbnail of the map
  • A hyperlink that will open the embedded WMC context in the original InterMap instance.
• Updated documentation
• An updated DVD will be produced with this version of the GeoNetwork software.

Under discussion but not confirmed InterMap improvements:

• Integration of the OpenLayers API in the client part
• InterMap server part to act as a WMS-T cascading server
• Support for KML export of a project, including adding comments with pins etc...

Planned functionality for version 3.0

Planning has started for GeoNetwork opensource 3.0. This section will be expanded over time. Version 3 is planned for release in 2008. The version should further enhance GeoNetwork opensource while remaining backward compatible with the earlier versions.

• Support for the ebRIM based OGC-Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) interface with the ISO and ISO-EO (Earth Observation) extension packages.