pycsw 1.8.0 released

20 March 2014 21:57:00 GMT – by Angelos Tzotsos

The pycsw team proudly announces the release of pycsw 1.8.0
codenamed “data.gov”.

This release powers the Geoplatform.gov and Data.gov CSW endpoints http://catalog.data.gov/csw and
http://catalog.data.gov/csw-all.

Data.gov is the home of the U.S. Government’s open data.

The 1.8.0 release brings significant features, enhancements and
fixes to the codebase, including:

support for PostgreSQL Full Text Search
support for repository
filtering
support for PostgreSQL schemas other than ‘public’
implement database connection pooling for WSGI
more robust native model
fix csw:AnyText population to be finer grained for OGC data
services
fix UTF-8 handling in configuration

The full list of enhancements and bug fixes is available at https://github.com/geopython/pycsw/issues?milestone=9&state=closed

pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python.

pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation
Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development
started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is
certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation.

pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial
metadata. Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be
exposed via OGC:CSW 2.0.2, providing a standards-based metadata and
catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures.

pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on
all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).