.. _harvesting:

Harvesting
==========

- 'pull' metadata into repository from remote URL
- pycsw supports many formats for harvesting

  - WMS, WFS, WCS, WPS, WAF, SOS
  - Dublin Core, FGDC, ISO, RDF
  - even other CSW servers

.. note::

  Always optimize your database accordingly (``pycsw-admin.py -c optimize_db``, ``VACUUM ANALYZE``, etc.) when making changes to the repository