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Overview

GI-cat is an implementation of distributed catalog services made by ESSI Lab: Allows clients to discover and evaluate geoinformation resources over a federation of data sources; Allows different clients to use the service, as it publishes different catalog interfaces. A data provider can deploy his/her own GI-cat instance, grouping together disparate data sources, to accommodate his/her user needs. More information is available in the documentation section

Download GI-cat 6.2 (2009-12-24)

Auto Installer Package

The Auto Installer Package for Windows, Linux and MacOS X includes GI-cat 6.2 and GI-conf, the configuration tool for GI-cat.

• Harvesting support from GeoNetwork
• ebRIM EO and CIM improvements
• Bugfixes

Data sources:

• OGC WCS 1.0, 1.1
• OGC WMS 1.3.0, 1.1.1
• OGC WFS 1.0.0
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 Core, AP ISO 1.0, ebRIM/CIM, ebRIM/EO
• THREDDS 1.0.1, 1.0.2
• CDI 1.04, 1.3
• GI-cat 5.x, 6.x
• GBIF
• GeoNetwork (versions 2.2.0 and 2.4.1) catalog service
• deegree (tested with version 2.2) catalog service
• OpenSearch accessor
• GENESI DR OpenSearch accessor

Profilers:

• Profilers (CSW ebRIM CIM 2.0.2, CSW ebRIM EO 2.0.2)
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 AP core
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 AP ISO 1.0
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 ebRIM EO
• OGC CSW 2.0.2 ebRIM CIM
• OpenSearch
• GENESI DR
• GI-cat extended interface

Windows Auto-installer

Linux Auto-installer

MacOS X Auto-installer

Download GI-cat Beta Version

To try the latest beta version of GI-cat, with the latest features available, visit the Beta Versions Page.

Latest beta: no beta available at the moment

Installation Guide

See the Auto Installer Package Installation Guide for further help on installation procedure.

Multi Platform Java WAR Package

Multiplatform Java WAR package

As an alternative to the Auto Installer Package, you can install GI-cat on a web container, such as Apache Tomcat, using the Java WAR Package.

Installation Guide

See the WAR Package Installation Guide for further help on installation procedure.

Configuration

After installation, you can configure GI-cat with GI-conf.

Successful stories

The GI-cat distributed catalog service has been successfully deployed and experimented in the framework of different projects and initiative, including:

	Project/Initiative	Description
	SeaDataNet FP6 project	SeaDataNet objective is to construct a standardized system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. The aim is to network and enhance the currently existing infrastructures, which are the national oceanographic data centres and satellite data centres of 36 countries, active in data collection. The networking of these professional data centres, in a unique virtual data management system will provide integrated data sets of standardized quality on-line.
	GEOSS IP3 (Interoperability Process Pilot Project) and GEOSS AIP-2 (Architectural Implementation Project – Phase 2)	The Group on Earth Observations, GEO, was established by a series of three ministerial-level summits. It currently includes 68 member countries, the European Commission, and 46 participating organizations. The vision of GEO is to create a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to help realize a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed via coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information. The Global Earth Observation System of Systems will provide decision-support tools to a wide variety of users. As with the Internet, GEOSS will be a global and flexible network of content providers allowing decision makers to access an extraordinary range of information at their desk. The IP3 was conceived as a way to exercise the process that has been defined for reaching interoperability arrangements. The 2nd Phase of the AIP will augment the GEOSS Initial Operating Capability previously established.
	GENESI-DR	GENESI-DR, (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories), has the challenge of establishing open Earth Science Digital Repository access for European and world-wide science users. GENESI-DR shall operate, validate and optimise the integrated access and use available digital data repositories to demonstrate how Europe can best respond to the emerging global needs relating to the state of the Earth, a demand that is unsatisfied so far.
	GIIDA	GIIDA is a CNR initiative (inter-departmental project) aiming to the design and development a multidisciplinary infrastructure for the management, processing and evaluation of Earth and environmental data. GIIDA aim is to implement the Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII) of CNR for Environmental and Earth Observation data.
	EuroGEOSS	EuroGEOSS demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing geographic systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and biodiversity. The concept of inter-disciplinary interoperability requires research in advanced modelling from multi-scale heterogeneous data sources, expressing models as workflows of geo- processing components reusable by other communities, and ability to use natural language to interface with the models.
	ESA HMA-T	The main objective of the project is to involve the stakeholders, namely national space agencies, satellite or mission owners and operators, in a harmonization and standardization process of their ground segment services and related interfaces. HMA is the first project launched and overviewed by the GSCB.

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Documentation

Visit the documentation section to learn more about GI-cat. You will find different types of documentation:

• Fact sheet
• Introductive slideshow
• Publications
• Technical information

Sample Instance Test

You can test a sample instance of this GI-cat version either:

• by means of our GI-go GeoBrowser 6.x client (see GI-go homepage for download instructions)
• by direct access to the endpoint of our demo server

Mailing list

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about GI-cat.