GeoNetwork opensource v2.1 as the Reference Implementation of OGC-CSW 2.0.1

Pre-requisites

For this how-to, it is required you have a fresh GeoNetwork opensource v2.1(!) installation with an empty catalog up and running. The GeoNetwork catalog has to be accessible from the Internet through a public URL.
You can also download and run the TEAM Engine locally in case you want to do local tests. Please refer to the TEAM engine site for instructions.
An explanation of the CITE tests for CSW can be found here.

The following OGC specifications are relevant to the CSW support:

• OGC Catalogue Services Specification, version 2.0.1 [OGC 04-021r3]
• OpenGIS Web Services Common Specification, version 1.0.0 [OGC 05-008c1]
• Filter Encoding Implementation Specification, version 1.1.0 [OGC 04-095]
• Geographic information -- Geography Markup Language [OGC 03-105r1]

Loading the CSW test data

In order to run the CITE tests provided by OGC at http://cite.opengeospatial.org/teamengine, test data has to be loaded into the GeoNetwork catalog. The test data to import straight into GeoNetwork can be downloaded here. (It can also be downloaded from the TEAM Engine page, but requires another import procedure not discussed here.)
Unzip the test data into a local folder. Now start GAST, the GeoNetwork Administrator Survival Tool. The start script can be found in the ../bin folder or in the Start menu on Windows computers.

Configure the connection to your GeoNetwork instance and select import on the menu. Locate the csw-cite-data folder on your computer and hit Import.

The data will be loaded and you will be able to test the CSW server using the test client also provided with the GeoNetwork installation, located in the ./csw folder.