You can use the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure to promote your services to users from across Canada and around the world. The first step in promoting your services is to choose a discovery mechanism. This section explains how discovery mechanisms connect users and suppliers of geospatial services and resources.
Chapter 5 explains what a discovery mechanism is, and how it allows users to search remote databases as well as describes the various discovery mechanisms (provincial, thematic and national) with which you can find geospatial resources within the CGDI.