CSW-4-Web is a proof-of-concept API designed to expose a CSW endpoint in a Web-friendly way, and enabling the exploration of its content without the need of specific client applications. Basically, CSW-4-Web turns a CSW endpoint into a Web site, consisting of three main sections: The description of the service itself The list of resources available from the endpoint The detailed description of each resource These pages are generated via a customised version of the GeoDCAT-AP API, which converts the XML output of the relevant CSW calls into an HTML+RDFa representation - i.e., an HTML page, with…

The GeoDCAT-AP is a proof of concept for the implementation of GeoDCAT-AP, the geospatial profile of DCAT Application Profile for data portals in Europe (DCAT-AP). The GeoDCAT-AP XSLT can be run directly on the ouput of a CSW or on single metadata records, by using any of the programming languages supporting XSLT conversion. The actual output of the XSLT depends on configuration parameters that specify: whether to use the core or extended GeoDCAT-AP profile; which spatial reference system to use for the geometry encoding of the bounding box (when available). The HTTP URIs to be used for the…