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Overview

GI-cat is an implementation of a broker catalog service made by ESSI-Lab: It allows clients to discover and evaluate geoinformation resources over a federation of data sources It publishes different catalog interfaces, allowing different clients to use the service A data provider can deploy his/her own GI-cat instance, grouping together disparate data sources, to accommodate his/her users' needs. More information is available: See Documentation Download and install GI-cat now: Download GI-cat

Success stories

GI-cat has been successfully deployed and experimented in the framework of different projects and initiatives, including:

	Project/Initiative	Description
	SeaDataNet FP6 project and SeaDataNet2 FP7 project	SeaDataNet objective is to construct a standardized system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. The aim is to network and enhance the currently existing infrastructures, which are the national oceanographic data centres and satellite data centres of 36 countries, active in data collection. The networking of these professional data centres, in a unique virtual data management system will provide integrated data sets of standardized quality on-line. SeaDataNet CSW interface
	GEOSS IP3 (Interoperability Process Pilot Project) and GEOSS AIP-2 (Architectural Implementation Project – Phase 2)	The Group on Earth Observations, GEO, was established by a series of three ministerial-level summits. It currently includes 68 member countries, the European Commission, and 46 participating organizations. The vision of GEO is to create a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to help realize a future wherein decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed via coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and information. The Global Earth Observation System of Systems will provide decision-support tools to a wide variety of users. As with the Internet, GEOSS will be a global and flexible network of content providers allowing decision makers to access an extraordinary range of information at their desk. The IP3 was conceived as a way to exercise the process that has been defined for reaching interoperability arrangements. The 2nd Phase of the AIP will augment the GEOSS Initial Operating Capability previously established.
	GENESI-DR	GENESI-DR, (Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories), has the challenge of establishing open Earth Science Digital Repository access for European and world-wide science users. GENESI-DR shall operate, validate and optimise the integrated access and use available digital data repositories to demonstrate how Europe can best respond to the emerging global needs relating to the state of the Earth, a demand that is unsatisfied so far.
	GIIDA	GIIDA is a CNR initiative (inter-departmental project) aiming to the design and development a multidisciplinary infrastructure for the management, processing and evaluation of Earth and environmental data. GIIDA aim is to implement the Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII) of CNR for Environmental and Earth Observation data. GIIDA central catalog
	EuroGEOSS	EuroGEOSS demonstrates the added value to the scientific community and society of making existing geographic systems and applications interoperable and used within the GEOSS and INSPIRE frameworks. The project will build an initial operating capacity for a European Environment Earth Observation System in the three strategic areas of Drought, Forestry and biodiversity. The concept of inter-disciplinary interoperability requires research in advanced modelling from multi-scale heterogeneous data sources, expressing models as workflows of geo- processing components reusable by other communities, and ability to use natural language to interface with the models. EuroGEOSS portal
	ESA HMA-T	The main objective of this ESA project is to involve the stakeholders, namely national space agencies, satellite or mission owners and operators, in a harmonization and standardization process of their ground segment services and related interfaces. HMA is the first project launched and overviewed by the GSCB.
	AfroMaison	AFROMAISON aims to propose concrete strategies for integrated natural resources management in Africa in order to adapt to the consequences of climate change. AFROMAISON is funded by the 7th Framework Program of the European Union. It has a budget of 4 million euro and a runtime of 3 years (March 2011-2014). AfroMaison portal

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Deployed GI-cat instances

Different GI-cat instances are deployed at different sites:

You can access them by means of our GI-go GeoBrowser client (see GI-go homepage for download instructions)

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Bug reports

A new GI-cat bug reporting system is available at: https://ulisse.pin.unifi.it/trac/gi-cat