Supported search fields

GeoNetwork-UI has built-in logic for several search fields, each of them relying on specific parts of the GeoNetwork search index. This page lists them all and their specificities.

Usage

These fields are used in the following context:

• when building a URL or permalink from several search criteria; these fields will appear as query parameters in the URL, for instance:
  /search?organization=MyOrg&format=csv&format=excel
• when specifying advanced filters in a configuration file

Fields

Organization

Field id: organization

This field targets the owner organization of a record. The exact meaning of a record's organization is defined by the "organization strategy" used; see this documentation page for more details.

Publisher

Field id: publisherOrg

This field targets the organization publishing the record. The exact meaning of a record's organization publisher is defined by the "organization strategy" used; see this documentation page for more details.

Producer

Field id: producerOrg

This field targets the organization producing the record. The exact meaning of a record's organization producer is defined by the "organization strategy" used; see this documentation page for more details.

Format

Field id: format

This field targets the formats of the distributions present in a record. To have human-readable formats with a GeoNetwork 4 backend, see this section of the documentation.

Publication year

Field id: publicationYear

This field targets the "year" part of the publication date of a record.

Topic

Field id: topic

This field targets the "topic" field of a record, sometimes also known as "theme". Topics are used for a general first-level classification and categorization of records.

Keyword

Field id: keyword

This field targets the keywords present in a record. These are treated as simple strings.

Note for multilingual catalogs

GeoNetwork 4 supports multilingual keywords.

The keywords will show up in the correct language when viewing a record in applications such as the Datahub, but for the search fields only the "default" labels are used (i.e. the labels in the main language of the record).

This means that a "keyword" search filter will show values in potentially many different languages.

INSPIRE keyword

Field id: inspireKeyword

This field target keywords that are part of the following INSPIRE-specific thesaurus: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme.

Because such keywords are part of a controlled list, they can be shown in the correct language according to the user's preferences.

Has spatial component

Field id: isSpatial

This field offers the only two values "yes" and "no" according to whether a record contains data with a (geo-)spatial component.

License

Field id: license

This field targets the license(s) that are mentioned in a record. Note that this only works for a few well-known licenses, such as:

• Creative Commons licenses
• Open Data Commons licenses
• Etalab Open licenses

Other kind of licenses will appear under the label "Unknown or absent".

Resource type

Field id: resourceType

Type of record, such as "dataset" or "service".

Representation type

Field id: representationType

Representation type of a record, such as "vector" or "raster".

Metadata standard

Field id: standard

This field targets the name of the metadata standard used to describe a record. This can for instance be "ISO 19115-3" or "ISO 19139".