A Standards Based, Service Registry and Catalog Management Tool

WES Catalog

An OGC-based integrated services registry/catalog and repository.

Publish and Organize Data
Using OGC Standards

The application provides comprehensive, standards-based catalog creation and management modules, enabling data and service discovery, publishing, access and maintenance. It is tightly integrated with ArcGIS and QGIS for discovery of geospatial and non-geospatial services and data contained within the catalog.

Metadata about services (e.g., WMS, WFS, WCS, SOS, ArcGIS services, etc.) and repository items (e.g., XML documents, text documents, images, sound, etc.) contained in the catalog can be easily managed.

All OGC API specifications are also supported.

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Discover, Connect, and
Unlock the Power of Data.

WES Catalog provides easy to use interfaces to publish and organize geospatial and non-geospatial data, making it easier for users to discover and exploit information and content. It implements a catalog/repository and web-based interfaces to publish and search for any type of geospatial product or service.

Whether integrating with existing spatial data infrastructures, searching for data or building metadata-driven user interfaces, WES Catalog makes it easier to manage and advertise data in a machine-readable way using open standards defined by the OGC.

Standardized, Integration
Metadata Management

WES Catalog was initially implemented using the OGC Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) standard and was recently upgraded to support the new OGC draft specification OGC API - Records. Backward compatibility has been maintained so that clients that only support CSW are still able to interact with the REST service.

The application has a configurable metadata harvest process that will automatically ingest service metadata from remote services, servers and other applications/catalogs.

Included with a WES Catalog distribution is GeoNetwork, an open-source application used as a metadata entry tool when augmenting/editing metadata being published into the WES Catalog database.