Bug#762145: ITP: pycsw -- OGC compliant metadata (catalog service for web) server

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>

* Package name    : pycsw
  Version         : 1.10.0
  Upstream Author : Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>, Tom Kralidis

* URL             : http://pycsw.org
* License         : MIT/X
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : OGC compliant metadata (catalog service for web) server

pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python. Started in 2010
(more formally announced in 2011), pycsw allows for the publishing and
discovery of geospatial metadata, providing a standards-based metadata and
catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. pycsw is Open Source,
released under an MIT license, and runs on all major platforms (Windows, Linux,
Mac OS X).

As far as I know this package would be the first implementation of a csw
service on debian. It is already used in several large geospatial data portal
applications.

This program was already packaged for the OSGeo live dvd (ubuntu based) by
Angelos Tzotsos. It will need fixes to be compliant with the debian file system
hierarchy.
We intent to maintain this package in the Debian-GIS team.