GEONETWORK OPENSOURCE
LAMBERT M. SURHONE, MARIAM T. TENNOE, SUSAN F. HENSSONOW
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The GeoNetwork opensource project is a free and open source cataloging application for spatially referenced resources.
It is a catalog of location-oriented information
It is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet.
Using the Z39.50 protocol it both accesses remote catalogs and makes its data available to other catalog services.
As of 2007, OGC Web Catalog Service are being implemented.
