pycsw installation experiences/hints

pycsw is a python implementation of Catalogue Service for the Web as well as OGC API Records.

Installation

A docker hub image is provided by geopython. The data folder and the main config file are mounted into the container.

The data folder contains a datafile, alternatively you can upload data to a PostGreSQL database.

The configuration file has main details such as contact information. Check the documentation to know which properties are supported.

Installation on the platform has some challenges because we install the software in a subpath. You can mimic running as root via:

• set a stripprefix directive in compose.yml "traefik.http.middlewares.portainer-stripprefix.stripprefix.prefixes=/pycsw"
• tell pycsw to use /pycsw/py.csw as scriptname

Note that /pycsw throws a 500 error for now, but /pycsw/csw.py works fine