.. _tools:

Cataloguing and Metadata Tools
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CSW Clients
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- `Geoportal CSW Clients <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/geoportal/index.php?title=Geoportal_CSW_Clients>`_
- `OWSLib <http://geopython.github.com/OWSLib>`_
- `qgcsw <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/qgiscommunitypl/wiki/qgcsw>`_ (`QGIS <http://qgis.org/>`_ plugin)

CSW Servers
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- `deegree <http://deegree.org/>`_
- `eXcat <http://gdsc.nlr.nl/gdsc/en/tools/excat>`_
- `GeoNetwork opensource <http://geonetwork-opensource.org/>`_

Metadata Editing Tools
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- `CatMDEdit <http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/>`_
- `EUOSME <https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description>`_
- `GIMED <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimed/>`_
