NapGen is a suite of web applications (Apache on Windows 7 or XP):
This distribution is a pre-alpha release (it does not include all the planned features, only a minute portion of the massive number of NAP elements have been checked, and there had been no field testing). Expect to encounter rough edges and other problems.
The supported browsers are:
The supported DBMS are:
The following features are not included in this release:
This version of NAP Generator supports repeatable NAP elements. But the mapping to each of the repeated instances will have to be manually specified.
For example, if you map the repeatable element
gmd:MD_Metadata/gmd:hierarchyLevel
to a one-to-many
relationship database table column, NAP Generator will treat it as one-to-one
and generate only one instance of that element. To map to an
additional instance of gmd:hierarchyLevel, you will have to click on
the plus button next to that element and then map the added instance to another
column.
This release of NapGen does not support GeoNetwork and therefore cannot import the generated XML into GeoNetwork.
However this release does support XML file generation, through the
Generate XML files
button in NAP Generator. That button creates
on the Apache server a validated XML file for each of the database
records found in a collection's primary table. The files can then
be manually imported into GeoNetwork.
Instead of NapGen monitoring database changes and importing them into a local GeoNetwork (so that they will be picked up in the next round of harvesting by a remote GeoNetwork), you can manually keep track of the database changes and when you want to update the local GeoNetwork:
To install NapGen: