The connection to other metadata catalogues and geoportals increases the value of geocat.ch and extends the scope of the metadata published there. Below are some examples.

geo.admin.ch is the platform for location-based information, data and services of the federal administration. These are provided by public institutions and made accessible to the public via the Internet on geo.admin.ch.

opendata.swiss is the opendata portal of the Swiss authorities.

All geometadata published in opendata.swiss are first entered and published in geocat.ch. From there they are regularly and automatically transferred to the opendata.swiss portal.

1. Registration of the organisation in geocat.ch

The first thing to do is to register the organisation as a group in geocat.ch.

2. Publication on opendata.swiss

The process of publishing geometadata via geocat.ch to opendata.swiss.

2. Entering geometadata in geocat.ch

Instructions for entering geometadata into geocat.ch.

3. Mapping geocat.ch to opendata.swiss

The transformation of the ISO-19139_che geometadata standard for opendata.swiss (DCAT-AP CH)

The name INSPIRE refers to the EU directive to establish a European Spatial Data Infrastructure to support European environmental policy.

The metadata of basic geodata published in geocat.ch and containing the keyword "official geodata" are automatically harvested and published on the INSPIRE portal.

Detailed information can be found in the document "Technical Guide for the Implementation of INSPIRE Metadata".