GeoNetwork Training Materials

Includes all the Exercises to be carried out

Exercise 1 - session A- Creating new metadata using templates

In this session of the exercise, you will create a new metadata record based on the default GeoNetwork's templates.

Exercise 1 – session B-Editing new metadata

In this session of the exercise you will describe a dataset by creating a new metadata record in the catalogue using the on-line metadata editor.

Exercise 1 - session C-Uploading thumbnails

In this session of the exercise, you will learn how to upload the graphic overview of the dataset to the metadata just created. You will use image(s) that will be scaled according to the GeoNetwork standards.

Exercise 1 - session D-Linking data for download

In this session of the exercise, you will learn how to prepare the dataset for the publication and uploading it on the web.

Exercise 2-Setting access privileges

With the previous exercises, you created a new metadata, associated a graphic overview to it and uploaded the related dataset onto a local GeoNetwork application. In this exercise you will learn how to set access privileges to your metadata and data.

Exercise 3-Assigning categories to a metadata

As a final step to entering metadata for a dataset, you should now assign categories for it. The assigned values will determine the categories the dataset will belong to, on the home page.

Exercise 4-Creating a metadata using XML

With this exercise you will create a new metadata record using the XML Metadata Insert tool. This tool is particularly useful if you already have a metadata in XML format and you want to import it into the GeoNetwork database. It is very important that the metadata is in one of the standards used by GeoNetwork: ISO19115, FGDC and Dublin Core.

Exercise 5-Creating customized metadata templates

With this exercise you will practice the creation of an ad hoc template with the purpose of preparing a metadata structure that is best adapted to the data to describe. Starting from a new metadata, presented in the default view, you may decide to remove some optional elements while new ones from the advanced view could be added according to your needs. The result will be a number of metadata elements that, a part from the mandatory ones, are essentially only those that you would like to maintain.

Exercise 8-Creation of new group and user profiles

This exercise aims to guide you in the creation of new user groups and user profiles in your GeoNetwork node according to your Organization needs. The user with administrative privileges can manage the creation of various groups corresponding to the various fields of activities of the contributors/users of the database. They may produce maps and, more in general geographic information, in different areas like land and water, climate, agriculture, transportation, facilities,