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A comprehensive, standards based, catalog
creation and management application providing
discovery, publishing, access and maintenance
of web-based service metadata.
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| Interoperable
Web services catalog management
for discovery, publishing and access
Supports
the OGC Catalog Services Specification
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Overview
WES Catalog is a catalog toolkit providing
discovery, publishing, access, harvesting and
maintenance of web-based services metadata. WES Catalog supports the following metadata standards:
- Department of Defense Metadata Standard (DDMS)
- ISO 19115
- Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)
- Dublin Core
- MARC 21
- DIF
The Application interfaces with the Application
Server using the OGC Catalog Interface specification.
In this case, the Application Server will draw
upon a local metadata store (Oracle RDBMS) to
respond to the Catalog Service request. The
interface to the local metadata store is internal
to the Application Server.
The WES Catalog architecture has been specifically designed to be deployed in a multi-tier arrangement of clients and servers. Discovery of services is provided through Service Manager service interfaces, which enable clients to locate service metadata quickly and effectively.
The multi-tiered architecture is illustrated below
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The application also has a metadata harvest process that will automatically ingest service metadata from Web-services servers and clients.
WES Catalog is
a component of Compusult’s Web
Enterprise Suite; a set of Internet-based
applications and toolkits that support Web mapping,
information cataloging, discovery, retrieval
and delivery services.
 WES Catalog is also a contributor
to the Open
Geospatial Consortium Catalogue Services
Interoperability initiative.
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