Ken: you could use OGC CSW for discovery, which allows for spatial/aspatial search and present functionality, assuming you have some sort of standardized metadata (ISO, Dublin Core, etc.). Sounds like you need to connect and expose existing metadata to a search server.
As for implementations, you also can check out deegree (http://www.deegree.org/) and eXcat (http://gdsc.nlr.nl/gdsc/en/tools/excat). As well, pycsw (http://pycsw.org/) is a new project which covers OGC CSW. Hope this helps. ..Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org > [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ken > Sent: Friday, 04 March 2011 10:44 > To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org > Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Metadata Server applications? > > I am looking to see if there any new open source metadata > server applications. I have looked into GeoNetwork, is there > anything else? > > I currently use ISITE2 which is a great product, supported by > a great individual. Is there anything new out there I can > replace it with? > > What I need: > - index all the xml files in selected folders/drives on our > network either by crawling, or by a provided list > > - ability to search one or more specific tags for keywords > from a web application built with PHP or Python, also be able > to share access to our catalog by other websites/applications. > > - response from search to provide basic details and ability > to target specific file for opening in full. > > - needs to run on a windows server with IIS webserver > > We have our own web mapping applications, webserver already > setup, metadata editors, etc. I just need the metadata server portion. > > Thanks, > > Ken > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss