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pycsw has the ability to perform distributed searching against other CSW servers. Distributed searching is disabled by default; to enable, server.federatedcatalogues must be set. A CSW client must issue a GetRecords request with csw:DistributedSearch specified, along with an optional hopCount attribute (see subclause 10.8.4.13 of the CSW specification). When enabled, pycsw will search all specified catalogues and return a unified set of search results to the client. Due to the distributed nature of this functionality, requests will take extra time to process compared to queries against the local repository.