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GeoNetwork opensource is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment, designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. This approach of geographic information management aims at facilitating a wide community of spatial information users to have easy and timely access to available spatial data and to existing thematic maps that might support informed decision making.

It has been devoloped by FAO-UN and WFP-UN. It implements the standards ISO 19115 Geographic Metadata and ISO 23950 (Z39.50).

Standards, Interoperability

• Rasterdata: ISO19115
• Vectordaa: ISO19115
• Dublin Core Metadata
• FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee)
• ESRI- ArcCatalog Metadata according to ISO 19115

Homepage

• http://geonetwork.sourceforge.net/