Please notice the following roles and users with deegree catalogueManager. Depending on the roles the search, edit or setup functions will be available.

deegree catalogueManager is a collection of client and server applications for managing ISO and INSPIRE compliant metadata. It provides HTTP/SOAP interfaces for searching, accessing, harvesting and manipulating metadata for geographic data and services. Metadata can be searched by their title, topic, date etc. and the spatial extent of the described data/service. deegree supports Dublin Core and INSPIRE compliant ISO 19115/19119/19139 metadata encoding. If the ISO metadata format is used, data metadata and service metadata can be coupled. This enables a user to first search for data metadata matching, for example, a specific topic and area and then finding a WMS, WFS etc. serving the data described by the data metadata sets matching the initial search.

The OGC CSW specification is available in different versions. deegree catalogueService supports versions 2.0.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2. For CSW 2.0.2 OGC has specified an application profile for ISO metadata (OGC ISO Application Profile for CSW 2.0.2 Specification) which is also supported by deegree CSW. Another important topic covers the INSPIRE specifications for metadata and discovery services. This is supported as far as specifications are completed. There are no compliance tests made available for CSW by the OGC, yet.

deegree catalogueService comes with support for Oracle and PostGIS database backend.

The catalogueManager also contains a metadata editor as well as a web frontend for searching and displaying metadata. Both components are designed to be easy to use without the requirement of detailed knowledge of ISO 19xxx or INSPIRE standards. Beside the contained editor deegree also offers a more powerful but even more complex editor (tibesti) to create, edit, update and manage metadata directly on top of a database backend. (to SVN.)