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Introducing ArcCatalog: Tools for Metadata and Data Management

Learn how to efficiently manage and document your data with ArcCatalog in ArcGIS. Explore metadata tools, data browsing, searching, creation, and maintenance. Understand metadata standards, editing, and customization options.

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Introducing ArcCatalog: Tools for Metadata and Data Management

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  1. Introducing ArcCatalog: Tools for Metadata and Data Management

  2. Overview of ArcGIS All ArcGIS products share common applications: ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox

  3. ArcMap • Primary display application • Perform map-based tasks • Displaying • Editing • Querying • Analyzing • Charting • Reporting

  4. ArcCatalog • A window into your database • Browse your data • Manage your data • Create/view data documentation (metadata)

  5. ArcToolbox • Geographic processing functions • Management, analysis, and conversion

  6. Using ArcCatalog • Browse data • Search for data • Manage data • Create data • Manage metadata • Define coordinate system, projection

  7. Three ways to view data • Contents • Preview • Metadata A

  8. The Contents tab • List • Large icons • Details • Thumbnails • Data • Layers • Maps

  9. The Preview tab • Geography or Table view

  10. The Metadata tab • Create and display metadata in a variety of ways

  11. Shapefile Table Coverage Geodatabase Layer Map Document Raster Raster layer TIN CAD data Browsing: data types

  12. Searching for data • Search by file name, type, location, date modified, or metadata element

  13. Creating and maintaining data • Add attribute fields to tables • Design and create Geodatabases • Define coordinate system/map projection

  14. Metadata • What is metadata? • How is it used? • Metadata tools in ArcCatalog • Display metadata in different styles

  15. What is metadata? • Information about data • They describe the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data • Like a catalog record for a book

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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)

  19. 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

  20. Stylesheets

  21. 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

  22. Metadata Editor

  23. 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)

  24. 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)

  25. More information about the standard… • Federal Geographic Data Committee http://www.fgdc.gov • Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata Workbook

  26. 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

  27. Thank you for your time! www.esri.com/software www.gis.com k12-lib@esri.com alee@esri.com Questions…?

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