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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

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

Stylesheet Tools

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?

ESRI ArcCatalog – Options

ESRI ArcCatalog

Transformation

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