BfG Metadata Catalogue

APINational · GermanyNo auth

Metadata catalogue of the Federal Institute of Hydrology. The metadata is exchanged via the Catalog Service Web Interface (CS-W) in version 2.0 specified by the OGC. In order to enable the provision of metadata in accordance with ISO standards 19115, 19119 and 19139, which is used in Germany and re…

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Trust score

How is this computed?

good

Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).

Officialnessweight 25%40/100
40/100 from 5 proof signals (domain / portal-backlink / GitHub-org / reciprocal / policy).
Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
Metadata completenessweight 20%70/100
7 of 10 recommended metadata fields populated.
License clarityweight 15%50/100
License info not yet tracked for APIs (datasets only).
Agent readinessweight 15%35/100
Docs URL present · Homepage URL present · Topic tags assigned

Official Proof

Public Sector API

Proof Evidence

40% - Official domain (europa.eu)

Data access

No machine-readable schema

This entry links to a dataset, file download, or documentation page rather than a self-describing API, so there's no field schema to display.

Verification Status

Using the API

Configuration

Base URL: https://geoportal.bafg.de/csw/api?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW

Query examples

curl -s 'https://geoportal.bafg.de/csw/api?request=GetCapabilities&service=CSW' -H 'Accept: application/json'

Base API endpoint — see the documentation for available routes.

Full API documentation ↗

Machine-readable & source

JSON

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