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Re: Batch Uploader and Metadata

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Sebastian Benthall

Date:

2010-06-16 @ 15:11

Moving to the geonode mailing list, as this is getting technical.

That all makes sense.

> The metadata sounds good. It would be preferable if we could have it go to
> the user account, but if that is significantly more difficult then having
> the admin account is fine.
>
To be clear, the admin account here would be _a_ user account, it would just
be an account set to have administrative privileges in the GeoNode
configuration.

> There is going to have to be able to be some configurability within the
> Batch uploader no matter what as there will have to be able to be the
> ability to select which GeoNode instance the user is selecting, if during
> that process it is determined that also passing a specific users credentials
> is not significantly more work that would be best.
>
The issue is that the batch uploader will be configured to point at a
particular GeoServer instance, not a particular GeoNode instance, for the
purpose of decoupling the technology.

We were talking about passing the credential through to the web app to
assign ownership, but it's a little cloudy to plan that out since we haven't
yet implemented the security sharing system and so we don't know the unknown
unknowns there.

I agree that this is a desirable feature in the long run.

> Alternatively, if we use the first pass solution of assigning to the admin
> we need to be able for the admin to select multiple files when re-assigning
> metadata ownership so that the admin does not need to go through the process
> for each file.
>
> **
>
That's a good point about the UI on this.

I bet there's a way to get the Django admin API to do these batch
operations.  Will look into it.



> *  From: *Sebastian Benthall [seb@opengeo.org]
>
> *  Sent: *06/15/2010 05:21 PM AST
> *  To: *Galen Burr Evans
> *  Subject: *Batch Uploader and Metadata
>
>
> Hi Galen,
>
> We've been hammering out the spec for the batch uploader, and I wanted to
> run a couple details by you to make sure we're on the same page about it.
>
> First, we want to allow users to be able to batch upload metadata.  For the
> format for this, we were thinking the metadata would be in XML format in a
> way that conforms to ISO19139, which is the same standard of which the World
> Bank standards you sent to me earlier are a subset.
>
> Second, there was the question of which GeoNode users winds up owning data
> that is batch uploaded.  We think the most solid way to do it on a first
> pass is to have anything batch uploaded to a GeoNode owned by the site
> administrative user by default.  That user can then reassign ownership as
> needed (once those features are in place.)  We can expand this functionality
> in the future if users demand it.
>
> Does this work for you as the deliverables for the first round on th batch
> uploader?
>
> --
> Sebastian Benthall
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>
>


-- 
Sebastian Benthall
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org

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