Post on 17-Jan-2016
MEDIN Standards Workshop
Using ESRI ARC 10 to create metadata
Transformation
XSLT
•Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
– Specifies rules for transforming one XML instance into another XML instance
– The output XML instance will have a different structure from the input XML instance
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ESRI XML to MEDIN XML
•MEDIN XML must be follow the ISO 19139 XML encoding
– Users may wish to use other software to create and manage metadata (e.g. ESRI desktop GIS)
– ESRI software manages metadata using XML– The XML does not following the ISO 19139
standard– The XML can be transformed to ISO 19139– MEDIN provides resources to support this
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Stylesheet Tools
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ESRI ArcGIS
Versions
•ArcGIS 9– FGDC / ISO
•ArcGIS 10– ESRI Core Metadata
– Both use XML encoding– The encodings are slightly different– Why the change at version 10?
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ESRI ArcCatalog – Options
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ESRI ArcCatalog
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Transformation
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ArcGIS 9 Metadata
ArcGIS 10 Metadata
MEDIN MetadataTransformation
e.g. Internal use e.g. External / Publish to DAC
Transform Options
•Use MEDIN stylesheets– ArcGIS 9 version– ArcGIS 10 version (or the Validate
button)•Implementation
– Any XSL stylesheet processor (version1.0), e.g:
• ArcGIS 9 or 10 ArcToolBox• Metadata Maestro
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