Project Overview
The CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork Project is intended to facilitate a friendly and free geospatial data-sharing platform for the CGIAR system and members for the CGIAR-CSI Consortium. GeoNetwork allows scientists and researchers to easily disseminate geospatial data that has been created and developed by at the various CGIAR Centers, and affiliated organizations.
GeoNetwork is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management environment, designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet. This approach of geographic information management aims at facilitating a wide community of spatial information users to have easy and timely access to available spatial data and to existing thematic maps that might support informed decision making.
CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork is structured such that all Centers and members each maintain their own GeoNetwork node. These GeoNetwork nodes are automatically harvested to date the main CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork node. The main, CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork node contains all metadata records publicly available from all nodes, and is then synchronized with FAO GeoNetwork. FAO records, which include many of UN agencies, are harvested by the main CGIAR-CSI node, and vice versa. The result is a seamless search and discovery mechanism for the CGIAR-CSI system (15 Research Centers, Regional Programs, System-wide Initiatives, Challenge Programs, and institutions and project partners), in conjunction with the complete data search of the UN GeoNetwork nodes (FAO, WFP, UNEP, OCHA, etc)
CGIAR-CSI is a member of the GeoNetwork Steering Committee. We gratefully acknowledge the leadership and sustained support of FAO-SDRN in forwarding the GeoNetwork Project.
GeoNetwork Support
The CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork Support Team is dedicated to provide technical support and actively help Centers to participate in the GeoNetwork Project. On this page you will find much valuable information to help you install, configure, and use the GeoNetwork software. Included are instructions manuals, documents, tutorials, and the software that could be useful to help you with technical issues. Contact details, including Skype Names, for the GeoNetwork support personnel team are given below. Please don't hesitate to contact us, and please consider us, and this site, as your Help Desk for the CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork project.
Additionally, the GeoNetwork Opensource Project now has many active members worldwide. There is a GeoNetwork Community Website where you can find much additional information about GeoNetwork and how to get the maximum performance to your node.
We will continue to update this site with new documentation and important notices of changes, bug reports, and fixes. In addition, we will also soon establish a online forum for help request and support response. We invite your active participation. You are also part of this project. So please actively participate by sending us feedback, suggestions, material that might be interesting for the CGIAR-CSI GeoNetwork Community or anything that you think will make this page, or this project, better.
Latest GeoNetwork Software Updates
GeoNetwork & InterMap opensource version 2.0.2
GeoNetwork Instructional Manuals, Documentation and Tutorials
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GeoNetwork Quick Start Guide English | Español | Français |
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This pdf file contains all information needed to start working with GeoNetwork, as how to search, Viewing and Analyzing data,
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GeoNetwork opensource CD. For Windows, Linux & Mac OS X (iso image, 700 Mb) |
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GeoNetwork opensource v2.0.2 + support software.
GeoServer v1.3.0a, GRASS v6.0, gvSIG v0.6, Ka-Map v0.2, MapBuilder v.1.Orc2, MapLab v2.2.1, MapServer v4.8.3, PostGIS v1.1.1, QGIS v.7.3, uDIG v1.0.6. |
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CGIAR-CSI Geonetwork Supporting Team
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Senior Software Developer and Chief GeoNetwork Technologist
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Technical Support Coordinator
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Sadir Mohideen |
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Claudia J Perea |
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m.sadir@cigar.org |
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c.perea@cgiar.org |
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sadirm |
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cjperea |
