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Contents 1 Midterm Review Report 1.1 Reading Material Referred/Read 1.2 Requirements 1.3 Development 1.3.1 Application and Backend Development 1.3.2 Schema 1.3.2.1 Application & GUIs 1.3.2.2 Backend 1.4 TODO/Next Steps

Midterm Review Report

@see all previous weekly reports with details:

Reading Material Referred/Read

• OGC SDI Cookbook
• OGC Catalog Specification 2.0.2 and API Profile
• INSPIRE Directive
• List mails and Wiki articles
• IRC discussions

Requirements

Requirements based on discussions on IRC, Original GSoC proposal, Email feedback, Mindmap

Development

Application and Backend Development

• classes/class_csw.php - main catalog object - also contains methods to process and manipulate cat object, create object, store XML into relational table etc. - admin functions to create cat object from XML getcaps and add to db
• php/mod_loadCatalog.php - admin functions to process the added catalog and add to db
• php/mod_loadCatalogCapabilities.php - admin functions to add a catalog into the db for a GUI
• javascripts/mod_searchCSW_form.php - Basic search form with advanced search
• javascripts/mod_CSWFunctions.js - JS functions for search
• ...

Schema

Application & GUIs

• @see csw_application.sql under resources/db/pgsql/
• Catalog Search Icon in main toolbar
• Popup Search to do simple and advanced search
• Admin - Catalog Management Category
• Admin - Add Catalog
• Admin - Add Catalog to GUI

Backend

• cat - store catalogs
• cat_keyword - store multiple keywords for each catalog
• gui_cat - catalog mapping to GUIs
• cat_op_conf - store operational values for catalogs - e.g store GetRecords GET xlink value

TODO/Next Steps

• Advanced Search Form
• Build Query from search values and options
• Search Catalogs using catalog assigned for GUI
• Create XML for search/GetRecords
• Link to WMS so that WMS can be loaded
• Streamline whole process