The metadata module allows an unlimited amount of customized metadata to be added to layer configurations, based on YAML configuration files with very advanced possibilities of generating a custom metadata form.
It serves as one the essential modules (together with gs-csw-iso) to effectively use geoserver as the main storer and deliverer of CSW metadata that complies with the INSPIRE specifications (for which the built-in metadata features are insufficient and could never satisfy every individual case).
Proposal: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/GSIP-212
The metadata module allows an unlimited amount of customized metadata to be added to layer configurations, based on YAML configuration files with very advanced possibilities of generating a custom metadata form.
It serves as one the essential modules (together with gs-csw-iso) to effectively use geoserver as the main storer and deliverer of CSW metadata that complies with the INSPIRE specifications (for which the built-in metadata features are insufficient and could never satisfy every individual case).