Direct partner

Direct partners can create and manage metadata directly in the geocat.ch application via Internet. They get a personal group in the database so their metadata will remain separate. In this case, the partner can manage and configure his group with the following possibilities:

• create and configure user accounts
• create one or more personal templates
• generate templates with predefined content
• import and export data files
• generate reusable objects
• select the metadata sets to be published

Harvesting partner (S3)

These partners can upload metadata files on a S3 Server. The import format (XML) is defined according to the GM03 standard. The discovery service of geocat.ch harvests the data and grants a read-only access via the catalogue search.

Harvesting Partner (external DB)

These Partners keep their metadata in their own environment. They open their geodata catalogue for the search-service of geocat.ch. This catalogue must be able to understand a request sent by geocat.ch (CSW 2.0.2), transform it into an internal search language and respond. The catalogue from can also implement a model which differs from the GM03 standard.