Introduction to Geospatial Metadata – FGDC CSDGM

1. 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

2. Series 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 CSDGM Resources

3. Metadata Creation and Validation Tool Time

4. Tool Time • Text Editor • TKME • Command line tools • CNS • MP • Other Editors • Metavist • MERMAid • EME – EPA Metadata Editor • OME – Online Metadata Editor • ArcCatalog

5. Why so many tools? • Different Data • Different preferences • Different output requirements • XML • Text • HTML What works best for you and your data?

6. TKME • Text editor used for metadata entry. • 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. TKME, CNS, and MP are available as free downloads from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Website. (geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata)

7. 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 be parsed by MP. 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. Warning: Do not use CNS on biological metadata. Taxonomic formatting may be lost.

8. 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. Usage C:>\mp [options] input_file 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

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

11. http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/validation/

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

14. Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid (MERMAid) • 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

15. EPA Metadata Editor https://edg.epa.gov/EME/index.html

16. EPA Metadata Editor https://edg.epa.gov/EME/#

17. OME – Online Metadata Editor http://mercury-ops2.ornl.gov/OME/

18. OME – Online Metadata Editor

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

20. FGDC Metadata Tools http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/geospatial-metadata-tools

21. Demo

22. Questions? Email –ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov