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Use Cases
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These are common situations where pycsw thrives:

**Case 1: Publishing against established metadata management workflow**

- existing desktop GIS environment
- already utilizing custom environments / processes / automation
- implement pycsw on top of environment to publish
- **Examples: ArcGIS, GeoNode**

**Case 2: Publishing against existing metadata database**

- bind pycsw to database with property -> column mappings

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