GeoNetwork - Getting started - The power and the pain - Belle Tissot from Geoscience Australia Presented at the ANDS facilitated GeoNetwork Community of Practice on April 3rd, 2017 in Canberra.

1. GeoNetwork - Getting Started
Belle Tissott
The power and the pain

2. The Journey
Discovery
Joy
Pain
Satisfaction
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3. Starting From Nothing, well nearly
I’m a developer
Not a scientist
Not a data architect
No GeoNetwork knowledge
No standards knowledge
No experience working in government
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4. The Environment
• JDK 8 – Java Development Kit
• Git – Source control
• Maven – For building the project
• Tomcat – To run as a local web server
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5. Proxy config
• Git:
git config --global http.proxy http://proxyuser:proxypwd@proxy.server.com:8080
• Maven
In .m2/settings.xml add
<settings>
.
<proxies>
<proxy>
<active>true</active>
<protocol>http</protocol>
<host>proxy.example.com</host>
<port>8080</port>
<username>proxyuser</username>
<password>somepassword</password>
</proxy>
</proxies>
.
</settings>
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6. Choosing a GeoNetwork flavour
See http://geonetwork-opensource.org for more examples
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7. Let’s get Technical
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Source
Remote
git repo
Your
Remote
git repo
Local
git repo
clone
Maven
build war
Tomcat
copy
Fork

8. It’s Alive!!!
Now you can start “playing” with personalisations, custom
configuration, feature adding or simply importing & creating
metadata
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Your local instance is now
running and can be accessed
here:
http://localhost:8080/geonetwork

9. Thank you!
Questions?