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Introducing ArcCatalog: Tools for Metadata and Data Management. Overview of ArcGIS. All ArcGIS products share common applications: ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox. ArcMap. Primary display application Perform map-based tasks Displaying Editing Querying Analyzing Charting Reporting.
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Introducing ArcCatalog: Tools for Metadata and Data Management
Overview of ArcGIS All ArcGIS products share common applications: ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox
ArcMap • Primary display application • Perform map-based tasks • Displaying • Editing • Querying • Analyzing • Charting • Reporting
ArcCatalog • A window into your database • Browse your data • Manage your data • Create/view data documentation (metadata)
ArcToolbox • Geographic processing functions • Management, analysis, and conversion
Using ArcCatalog • Browse data • Search for data • Manage data • Create data • Manage metadata • Define coordinate system, projection
Three ways to view data • Contents • Preview • Metadata A
The Contents tab • List • Large icons • Details • Thumbnails • Data • Layers • Maps
The Preview tab • Geography or Table view
The Metadata tab • Create and display metadata in a variety of ways
Shapefile Table Coverage Geodatabase Layer Map Document Raster Raster layer TIN CAD data Browsing: data types
Searching for data • Search by file name, type, location, date modified, or metadata element
Creating and maintaining data • Add attribute fields to tables • Design and create Geodatabases • Define coordinate system/map projection
Metadata • What is metadata? • How is it used? • Metadata tools in ArcCatalog • Display metadata in different styles
What is metadata? • Information about data • They describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data • Like a catalog record for a book
How are metadata used? • Help potential users find and evaluate data • Organize and maintain an organization's investment in data • Provide information to data catalogs and clearinghouses
Metadata includes… • Identification • Title, Themes, Creation date, Restrictions • Data Quality • Accuracy, Completeness, Logical consistency • Spatial Data Organization • Vector, Raster, Type of elements, Number • Spatial Reference • Coordinate system, Projection, Datum • Entity and Attribute Information • Features, Attributes, Attribute values • Distribution • Distributor, Formats, Media, Online, Price • Metadata Reference • Metadata creation date, Responsible party
Metadata in ArcCatalog • ArcCatalog includes tools to create and edit metadata in FGDC standard • Metadata can be imported or exported • Metadata updated automatically (auto-update can be turned off)
Metadata in ArcCatalog • Files are stored in XML (Extensible Markup Language) • Stored alongside spatial data or inside GeoDatabase and automatically copied, moved or deleted along with the spatial data
Metadata in ArcCatalog • When creating or editing metadata, ArcGIS automatically provides information where appropriate • Coordinate system • Bounding coordinates • Spatial Data description (data types) • List of attribute fields
Metadata Editor • Designed for FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) • Meets minimum requirements • Extends FGDC standards to allow properties to be updated automatically (ESRI Profile of CSDGM)
The Metadata Standard • Developed between 1992 – 1994 • Beginning in 1995, federal agencies ‘required’ to document data • Goal is to facilitate data sharing, reduce duplication of efforts, support development of National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
More information about the standard… • Federal Geographic Data Committee http://www.fgdc.gov • Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Workbook
Customized Editors • Possible to create customized metadata editor to follow other standards, such as ISO, Dublin Core • ESRI working on Metadata Editor designed for ISO standard
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