Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) are committed to protecting the environment, conserving the country’s natural heritage, and providing weather and meteorological information to keep Canadians informed and safe.

Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada use GeoNetwork opensource as a metadata geoportal to manage a data publication process for data produced by the different departments.

An internal catalogue is used to register spatial resources by users in the different departments. Once the metadata is created and validated according to a set of defined rules, the data and metadata go through a revision process where they will be reviewed by different users to verify the quality.

Approved registrations, indicated as open data, are published publicly in an open data portal and can be accessed via the portal or with the OGC:CSW protocol. Also the related resources are deployed publicly as GIS services (OGC:WMS/OGC:WFS) in an automated way.

On this talk we are going to discuss a high level architecture of the system and the related challenges to support the publication process and the integration with external systems.