This chapter describes the Oracle Spatial and Graph implementation of the Open GIS Consortium specification for catalog services. According to this specification: "Catalogue services support the ability to publish and search collections of descriptive information (metadata) for data, services, and related information objects. Metadata in catalogues represent resource characteristics that can be queried and presented for evaluation and further processing by both humans and software. Catalogue services are required to support the discovery and binding to registered information resources within an information community."
The Oracle Spatial and Graph implementation will be referred to as Catalog Services for the Web, or CSW
This chapter includes the following major sections:
Note:
Before you use CSW, be sure that you understand the concepts described in Introduction to Spatial Web Services, and that you have performed any necessary configuration work as described in that chapter.
If you have data from a previous release that was indexed using one or more SYS.XMLTABLEINDEX indexes, you must drop the associated indexes before the upgrade and re-create the indexes after the upgrade, as described in Index Maintenance Before and After an Upgrade (WFS and CSW).