GI-go Beta Versions

In this page the latest beta releases of GI-go are listed for testing. Please find stable versions on GI-go homepage: http://zeus.pin.unifi.it/gi-go

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Release 7.0-beta-1 (2010-03-02)

This is the latest beta version of GI-go, containing the latest features. Reports are specially welcomed for this version, including bug reports and general feedback. You can fill a report directly from the application.

Highlighted features:

• Improved GUI (md overview icons)
• Query results filtering
• Improved md view edit management
• Improved overview, download and preview (thread pool,faster cache file creation)
• Multiple downloads support
• XML metadata download and edit
• Feedback on preview and download
• HTML preview
• Bugfixes
• Distributed search on a variety of data sources:
  • WCS 1.0, 1.1
  • WMS 1.3.0, 1.1.1
  • WFS 1.0.0
  • CSW 2.0.2 Core, AP ISO 1.0, ebRIM/CIM, ebRIM/EO
  • THREDDS 1.0.1, 1.0.2
  • Accessors for GeoNetwork (tested with versions 2.2.0 and 2.4.1) and deegree (tested with version 2.2) catalog services
    
  • OpenSearch accessor
  • GENESI RDF OpenSearch accessor
  • Download and visualization of XML metadata
  • CDI 1.04, 1.3, 1.4
  • GI-cat 5.x, 6.x, 7.x
  • GBIF

See the Release Notes for a detailed history of the implemented improvements, along with known bugs/limitations.

Try it:

• As a stand-alone application: download the platform independent ZIP bundle, unzip it and launch appropriately (see the README for instructions)
• As a Java Web Start application ( Mac users: launching from a 32-bit browser may fail, because the MacOS version of Java SE 6 is 64-bit only; saving the links below and double clicking should work around the issue):
  • Start GI-go! (7.0-beta-1 version for Web Start)
    
  • Start GI-go! (autoupgrading link to the latest beta 7.* version for Web Start)

Please note that GI-go requires Java SE 6 (at the latest update). You may need to download and install it. GI-go is tested on the latest Sun JVM update, on Windows and Linux, and on the latest Apple JVM update, on MacOS.

For more information on GI-go you may also read the Quick User Guide.

If you think you have found a bug, or for any other comment, please contact us: your feedback is higly appreciated!