Introduction

pycsw is an OGC CSW server implementation written in Python.

Features

• fully passes the OGC CITE CSW test suite (103 tests)
• support for ISO Metadata Application Profile 1.0.0
• realtime XML Schema validation
• extensible profile plugin architecture
• full transactional capabilities
• flexible repository configuration
• federated catalogue distributed searching

Standards Support

Standard	Version(s)
OGC CSW	2.0.2
OGC Filter	1.1.0
OGC OWS Common	1.0.0
Dublin Core	1.1
SOAP	1.2

Supported Operations

Request	Optionality	Supported	HTTP method binding(s)
GetCapabilities	mandatory	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
DescribeRecord	mandatory	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
GetRecords	mandatory	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
GetRecordById	optional	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
GetRepositoryItem	optional	yes	GET (KVP)
GetDomain	optional	yes	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
Harvest	optional	pending	GET (KVP) / POST (XML) / SOAP
Transaction	optional	pending	POST (XML) / SOAP