.. _tools:

Cataloguing and Metadata Tools
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CSW Clients
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- `Geoportal CSW Clients <https://github.com/Esri/geoportal-server/wiki/Geoportal-CSW-Clients>`_
- `OWSLib <https://geopython.github.io/OWSLib>`_
- `MetaSearch <https://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/MetaSearch>`_ (`QGIS <http://qgis.org/>`_ plugin)

CSW Servers
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- `deegree <https://deegree.org/>`_
- `eXcat <http://gdsc.nlr.nl/gdsc/en/tools/excat>`_
- `GeoNetwork opensource <https://geonetwork-opensource.org/>`_

Metadata Editing Tools
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- `CatMDEdit <http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/>`_
- `EUOSME <https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/euosme/description>`_
- `GIMED <http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimed/>`_
- `Metatools <http://hub.qgis.org/projects/metatools>`_ (`QGIS <http://qgis.org/>`_ plugin)
- `QSphere <http://hub.qgis.org/plugins/qsphere>`_ (`QGIS <http://qgis.org/>`_ plugin)
