• Introduction
• Technical analysis
• Issues and recommendations
• European SIF

ISO Application Profile and ebRIM Application Profile of CS-W

Summary

“The main issue concerns the use of two non-interoperable solutions for the discovery of ISO 19115 and ISO 19119 metadata. At the minimum, a bridge between the ISO Application Profile and the CIM extension package should be defined. The approach for defining future discovery specifications is also an issue: should the initiatives profile the base CS-W specification for each type of resource (e.g. feature catalogues, ISO 19115-2 metadata, etc.) or should they instead define extension packages of the ebRIM Application Profile?”

Classification

Category	Catalogue and Metadata
Identifier	ISSUE-CAT-004
Type of recommended activity	Further Investigation about the subject
Organisations addressed	INSPIRE, GEOSS and GMES technical teams

Additional information

Context	The catalogues of the different initiatives are built on the Catalogue Service for the Web standard of the OGC (CS-W), but the usage of the base catalogue profiles differs strongly. GEOSS supports all the available standard service interfaces, i.e.: CS-W ISO AP v1.0.0, CS-W ebRIM AP Basic Package, CS-W ebRIM AP EO EP, CS-W ebRIM AP CIM EP INSPIRE requests the usage of the elements defined in the implementing rules, but suggests the usage of an according CS-W ISO profile (CS-W ISO AP INSPIRE Profile). The CS-W ISO profile is a direct profile of the generic Catalogue Service for the Web OGC standard for the discovery of metadata expressed according to ISO 19115 and ISO 19119 and encoded according to ISO 19139. GMES is supporting profiles based on the ebRIM Application Profile of CS-W, i.e. the Basic Package (common to all extension packages), the Earth Observation Extension Package for the discovery of Earth Observation metadata expressed according to the GML Application Schema for EO Products and the CIM Extension Package for the discovery of ISO 19115 and ISO 19119 metadata (encoded according to ISO 19139). The ebRIM Application Profile defines a generic metamodel that can be instantiated for the discovery of different types of resources.
Rationale	None
Dependencies	None
Further background information	Technology Watch Report - Catalogue and Metadata [PDF] Comparative analysis report (version 2) [PDF] Comparative Analysis Report (version 2) - Annex Recommendations [PDF]
Main discussion points	None
Roadmap	None