Introduction to Geospatial Metadata – FGDC CSDGM

National Coastal Data Development Center

A division of the National Oceanographic Data Center

Please email a list of participants at each location to

ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov

Also Email questions for the Q&A session to ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov

CSDGM ResourcesSeries Materials:ftp://ftp.ncddc.noaa.gov/pub/Metadata/Online_ISO_Training/Intro_to_CSDGM/CSDGM Geospatial Metadata Standards:http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/geospatial-metadata-standards#csdgm

TOOL TIMEMetadata Creation and Validation

• Text Editor

• TKME

• Command line tools

• CNS

• MP

• Other Editors

• Metavist

• MERMAid

• EME – EPA Metadata Editor

• OME – Online Metadata Editor

• ArcCatalog

• Text Editor

• TKME

• Command line tools

• CNS

• MP

• Other Editors

• Metavist

• MERMAid

• EME – EPA Metadata Editor

• OME – Online Metadata Editor

• ArcCatalog

Tool Time

• Different Data

• Different preferences

• Different output requirements

• XML

• Text

• HTML

• Different Data

• Different preferences

• Different output requirements

• XML

• Text

• HTML

What works best for you and your data?

What works best for you and your data?

Why so many tools?

• CNS and MP“Chew ‘n spit,” checks and corrects structural errors, and “Metadata Parser”, which checks for errors in element compliance. These are ‘command line’ tools.

• CNS and MP“Chew ‘n spit,” checks and corrects structural errors, and “Metadata Parser”, which checks for errors in element compliance. These are ‘command line’ tools.

• TKMEText editor used for metadata entry.

• TKMEText editor used for metadata entry.

TKME, CNS, and MP are available as free downloads from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Website. (geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata)

TKME, CNS, and MP are available as free downloads from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Website. (geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata)

CNS (“Chew ‘n Spit”) - A pre-parser for formal metadata designed to assist metadata managers convert records that cannot be parsed by MP into records that can beparsed by MP.

CNS (“Chew ‘n Spit”) - A pre-parser for formal metadata designed to assist metadata managers convert records that cannot be parsed by MP into records that can beparsed by MP.

Assumptions:Assumptions:

The input file has metadata elements identified by name; elements always start with an element name, which is the first alphabetic string of characters on the line. CNS does not assume that you have used underscores in the standard element names, and if you have used nonstandard names for standard elements, you can tell CNS how to interpret them.

The input file has metadata elements identified by name; elements always start with an element name, which is the first alphabetic string of characters on the line. CNS does not assume that you have used underscores in the standard element names, and if you have used nonstandard names for standard elements, you can tell CNS how to interpret them.

Warning:Warning:

Do not use CNS on biological metadata. Taxonomic formattingmay be lost.

Do not use CNS on biological metadata. Taxonomic formattingmay be lost.

MP (Metadata Parser) - A compiler to parse formal metadata, checking the syntax against the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata and generating output suitable for viewing with a web browser or text editor.

MP (Metadata Parser) - A compiler to parse formal metadata, checking the syntax against the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata and generating output suitable for viewing with a web browser or text editor.

Options:-c config-file-l language-code-e error-file -t text-file-h html-file-f faq-file-s sgml-file-x xml-file-d dif-file-fixdoc

Options:-c config-file-l language-code-e error-file -t text-file-h html-file-f faq-file-s sgml-file-x xml-file-d dif-file-fixdoc

UsageC:>\mp [options] input_fileUsageC:>\mp [options] input_file

TKME - An editor for formal metadata, TKME is intended to simplify the process of creating metadata that conform to the standard.

TKME - An editor for formal metadata, TKME is intended to simplify the process of creating metadata that conform to the standard.

Metadata Entry Tools

http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata

http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/validation/

- An editor used to create FGDC compliant metadata, Metavist is compliant with the FGDC Standard as well as the FGDC Biological Data Profile.

Metavist

• Metadata generation, validation, publication and management

• Secure web access (https://)

• Users define the how their data are organized (i.e. by project, data type, personnel,…)

• Roles and permissions

• Full text indexing

• Knowledge-based searches

• Metadata generation, validation, publication and management

• Secure web access (https://)

• Users define the how their data are organized (i.e. by project, data type, personnel,…)

• Roles and permissions

• Full text indexing

• Knowledge-based searches

Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid (MERMAid)

EPA Metadata Editor

https://edg.epa.gov/EME/index.html

EPA Metadata Editor

https://edg.epa.gov/EME/#

OME – Online Metadata Editor

http://mercury-ops2.ornl.gov/OME/

OME – Online Metadata Editor

ArcCatalog

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/01/03/a-new-approach-for-metadata-with-arcgis-10/

FGDC Metadata Tools

http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/geospatial-metadata-tools

Demo

EMAIL –NCDDCMETADATA@NOAA.GOV

Questions?