GI-cat light configurator

 GI-conf is a user friendly, easy to use web application which allows a  full GI-cat configuration using the browser. With GI-conf you can manage the  published interfaces as well as the brokered resources. You can also edit  several other settings such as proxy parameters and  personalize this welcome page.


GI-cat clients

You are free to use any client supporting one of the published interfaces! (see the next section for a comprehensive list of the currently published interfaces)

You can also test this GI-cat instance with the following ESSI-Lab clients:

 GI-portal is a lightweight client which allows to query GI-cat  by means of the OpenSearch interface.

 GI-go geobrowser is an extended GI-cat client written in Java which allows complex queries and enhanced results presentation.

Published interfaces

The following catalog interfaces are available:
  • CSW/ISO 2.0.2 interface
    Endpoint: http://129.194.231.174:8080/gi-cat/services/cswiso?
    Capabilities document

  • GI-CAT interface
    Endpoint: http://129.194.231.174:8080/gi-cat/services/catalog?

  • OAI-PMH 2.0 interface
    Endpoint: http://129.194.231.174:8080/gi-cat/services/oaipmh?
    Identify response

  • OPENSEARCH-SEMANTIC-ENHANCED interface
    Endpoint: http://129.194.231.174:8080/gi-cat/services/opensearchsemanticenhanced?getDescriptionDocument
    OpenSearch description

  • ESRI-GEOPORTAL 2.0.2 interface
    Endpoint: http://129.194.231.174:8080/gi-cat/services/esrigeoportal?
    Capabilities document

  • REST interface
    Endpoint: http://129.194.231.174:8080/gi-cat/services/rest?

Brokered resources

Searches are being performed against the following resources:

  • On-the-flyWeb services GRID of type GEONETWORK version 2.6 (CSW/ISO 2.0.2)
    Endpoint: http://services.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?
    Distributed search is applied to this remote source.

  • On-the-flyMetadata GRID geonetwork of type GEONETWORK version 2.6 (CSW/ISO 2.0.2)
    Endpoint: http://metadata.grid.unep.ch/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw?
    Distributed search is applied to this remote source.

  • On-the-flyMetagrid maps and graphics of type FILE version 1.0
    Endpoint: file:///var/www/XMLRepository/ISO/Maps/
    Distributed search is applied to this remote source.

  • On-the-flyMetagrid Reports of type FILE version 1.0
    Endpoint: file:///var/www/XMLRepository/ISO/Reports/
    Distributed search is applied to this remote source.

Server status

Free Heap memory: 964 MB Total Heap memory: 1073 MB

Free Perm memory: 200 MB Total Perm memory: 268 MB

GI-cat interface

GI-cat features a custom SOAP interface that extends the standard OGC CSW specification and enables the following additional capabilities:

  • Configuration: to dynamically configure this GI-cat instance
  • Feedback: to retrieve feedbacks status information from this GI-cat instance
  • Incremental queries: to obtain incremental query responses from this GI-cat instance

Check the services page to see the list of available services and retrieve the related WSDLs.

Configuration

Useful links