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GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.7

GeoCat is pleased to present our latest distribution of GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.7.

To migrate from GeoNetwork Enterprise 2022 or earlier, see the Upgrade guide.

Overview

GeoNetwork Enterprise is an outstanding catalog application providing record publishing and search capabilities to share information. Built to support international open standards GeoNetwork offers metadata editing and management with a focus on geospatial content.

GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.7 is a recommended upgrade for all our customers and compatible with GeoCat Bridge for both ArcGIS Desktop and QGIS Desktop.

GeoNetwork Enterprise Plugin repository

GeoNetwork Enterprise is provided as a base package which can be extended with plugins. Plugins have an independent lifecycle. Each plugin advertises its compatibility with relevant GeoNetwork versions.

Plugins are available via the plugin repository.

Documentation on how to install the plugin is available in the plugin.

GeoNetwork Enterprise Documentation

Documentation is now available at https://docs.geocat.net/find/2023

GeoNetwork Technology

GeoNetwork Enterprise 2023.7 is based on GeoNetwork opensource 4.2.15 release. This version of GeoNetwork has switched the search engine to use ElasticSearch instead of Lucene, as in previous versions.

See how to Install and Configure Elasticsearch.

This section describes the main changes in this new version.

User interface

Minimal UI view

  • Home page / fix query for interactive maps.
  • Metadata record page:
  • Fix CRS information not shown.
  • Display related feature catalogue records.

Map viewer

  • Ignore layer dimensions for non WMS layers.

Metadata

  • ISO19139 / ISO19115-3.2018 / Full record view improvements:
    • Don't display keyword panel if there are no keywords to display.
    • Hide distribution format if it has empty values.

Metadata Austrian schema

  • Update protocol helper list with missing entries for OGC API protocols.

Metadata Dutch dataset schemas (2.1.0)

  • Datacite / Rights element changes:
    • Use the license value defined in resource constraints other constraints element instead of use limitation, that doesn't have a license.
    • Use the english value for the license link, to avoid issues with Datacite validator.

Metadata HNAP schema

  • Fix the Parameter type name and value type name labels and helper lists in service metadata.

Metadata ISO19115-3.2018 DEECA schema

  • New data location information element.
  • Indexing / Use English as default language if no metadata language is defined.
  • SDM Metadata report changes:
    • Remove ANZLIC ID and display Metadata ID.
    • Display cit:citedResponsibleParty with roles custodians and owners.
    • Detail tab: remove Contact Organisation, Contact Position, Address, Telephone, Facimile, Email address.
    • Detail tab: display contact (email address).
    • Detail tab: display Representation Type and Horizontal Accuracy Resolution.

Administration

  • Add support for API Key in Simple URL and CSW harvesters.
  • Fix GeoNetwork 4 harvester missing one record due to pagination bug.
  • Improve username and group name patterns for valid characters:
    • Group name may only contain alphanumeric characters and hyphens (not consecutive). Cannot begin or end with an hyphen.
    • Username may only contain alphanumeric characters and hyphens, dots or colons or at-arrow (not consecutive). Cannot begin or end with an hyphen, colon or at-arrow.
    • Add username and user group length checks.

API and automation

  • Allow editors to index their records

Security

Other

  • Add logging configuration for JSON log output.
  • Skip BOM chars from XML documents.
  • Upgrade to OpenLayers to 10.8.0.