Summary, Repository Manager metadata tool

Repository Manager is a licensed software that has been developed to manage ISO
19115 compliant metadata catalogues in conjunction with ISO 19110 feature
catalogues.  It includes 2 modules:
- 19115 Metadata (to compile, publish and XML-export metadata) 
- 19110 Feature Catalog (to describe geographic features, attributes, relationships, ...) 

It is an RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQLServer) solution, developed in VB and MapObjects
for geographical representation (19110 module has "map" functions to verify and
derive automatically information of cad/gis file, sde/sdo layers, coverage AI,
raster, ...).

It has been used by Italian Military Geographic Institute (IGM - www.igm.org)
and by several local authorities (regions, provinces, municipalities - eg.
Regione Emilia-Romagna


The "19110" module is an intelligent entry tool to derive automatically information on: 
- CAD file (DWG/DXF/DGN) 
- coverage ArcINFO 
- Raster file (jpg, tiff, ecw, .....) 
- Shape file 
- SDE layer 
- Oracle Spatial layer (SDO) 
- DBF tables 
- ODBC/JDBC (RDBMS) sources 

Some features: 
OS: MS Windows (98, ME, NT, 2000, XP), Linux 
RDBMS: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server 

At the moment the cost is approximately 30 Euro including web services runninng on it.

Web services include both 
- "19115" discovery services (eg. used by Regione Emilia-Romagna for online
Bookshop http://archiviocartografico.regione.emilia-romagna.it/)
- Services to be used by desktop/web GIS applications (ArcGIS, ArcView, MapInfo,
... ArcIMS) to access indirectly data

The next release (r. 7 - December 2005) will be split into two separate modules
(19115 and 19110), and a 19119 compliant module will be added to describe also
services.

The tool currently supports Italian language only, but extension to English
version is planned.

19110 is an abstract ISO standard, on methodology for feature cataloguing (means
what and how to describe geographic features in "physical" terms, ... say ...
how datasets are related to each other, their constraints, ... and so on).
Unfortunately, as Doug Nebert wrote (see
http://lists.geocomm.com/mailman/private/metadata/2005-April/000247.html)
"feature catalogs neither have web service interfaces on them nor do they (yet)
have a published XML structure that could be pointed to, so at best CORE is left
with a reference to a possible feature catalogue that might exist as a
document." What CORE developed are something like what Nebert calls "web services
interfaces" using feature catalogues to access data.


For additional information contact:
	Piergiorgio Cipriano 
	CORE Soluzioni Informatiche srl
	piergiorgio.cipriano@corenet.it
	http://www.corenet.it 
	Via Calzolerie, 2 - 40125 BOLOGNA 
	tel. 0039 051 278926 (diretto)
	tel. 0039 051 237823 (centralino)
	fax 0039 051 270806