# A²HL²-pycsw README #

## Information about pycsw ##

pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python.

pycsw fully implements the OpenGIS Catalogue Service Implementation Specification (Catalogue Service for the Web). Initial development started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011). The project is certified OGC Compliant, and is an OGC Reference Implementation. Since 2015, pycsw is an official OSGeo Project.

pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata via numerous APIs (CSW 2/CSW 3, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, SRU). Existing repositories of geospatial metadata can also be exposed, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures.

pycsw is Open Source, released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).

Please read the docs at http://pycsw.org/docs for more information.

## Geosoftware II Project of the Group "A²HL²", WWU ##

Project-Members A²HL²:

[Aysel Tandik](https://github.com/atlanta11950), [Anika Graupner](https://github.com/Anika2), [Henry Fock](https://github.com/HenFo), [Lia Kirsch](https://github.com/cherry13579), [Lukas Jahnich](https://github.com/lukasjah)

Project order:

This project will close the gap between geospatial data formats and repositories respectively geospatial metadata catalogues and similarity measurements. Project groups will extend an existing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project with the functionality to retrieve and view similar records. This comprises both the API and UI, namely providing an HTTP endpoint to retrieve an ordered list of records based on a provided record and displaying/linking similar records in a detail view of a record respectively.

For our project we decide to extend pycsw.

Associated Repository with metadataextraction-tool:

https://github.com/HenFo/Geosoftware-II-AALLH

License:

## API Testsuite ##

To run aahll-pysw read the installationguide.md!