Pycsw ogc compliance news item draft
Subject: pycsw Receives OGC Compliance Certification and Reference Implementation Status
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14 January 2013
The pycsw development team is happy to announce that pycsw 1.4.0 is now certified OGC Compliant for OGC CSW 2.0.2 [1], and passes all 103 CITE tests.
As well, pycsw is now an official OGC Reference Implementation. A demonstration instance of the reference implementation is available at http://demo.pycsw.org.
Standards are at the core of pycsw; acheiving OGC compliance and reference implementation status is part of the project's ongoing commitment to an open source, standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures.
pycsw is an OGC Compliant CSW server implementation written in Python. pycsw is currently an OSGeo Labs project and is also included in OSGeo-Live[2]. Please visit http://pycsw.org for more information.