.. _csw_harvester: CSW Harvesting -------------- This harvester will connect to a remote CSW server and retrieve metadata records that match the query parameters specified. Adding a CSW harvester `````````````````````` .. figure:: web-harvesting-csw.png *Adding a Catalogue Services for the Web harvesting node* The figure above shows the options available: - **Site** - Options about the remote site. - *Name* - This is a short description of the remote site. It will be shown in the harvesting main page as the name for this instance of the CSW harvester. - *Service URL* - The URL of the capabilities document of the CSW server to be harvested. eg. http://geonetwork-site.com/srv/eng/csw?service=CSW&request=GetCabilities&version=2.0.2. This document is used to discover the location of the services to call to query and retrieve metadata. - *Icon* - An icon to assign to harvested metadata. The icon will be used when showing harvested metadata records in the search results. - *Use account* - Account credentials for basic HTTP authentication on the CSW server. - **Search criteria** - Using the Add button, you can add several search criteria. You can query only the fields recognised by the CSW protocol. - **Options** - Scheduling options. .. include:: ../common_options.rst - **Options** - Specific harvesting options for this harvester. - *Validate* - If checked, the metadata will be validated after retrieval. If the validation does not pass, the metadata will be skipped. - **Privileges** - Assign privileges to harvested metadata. .. include:: ../common_privileges.rst - **Categories** .. include:: ../common_categories.rst Notes ````` .. include:: ../common_notes.rst