Geospatial Metadata Overview

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Geospatial Metadata Overview

• WV AGP GIS Conference, 9 -12 June 2008
• Presented by
• Eric Hopkins, GIS Analyst
• ehopkins_at_wvu.edu
• West Virginia GIS Technical Center (WVGISTC)
• Department of Geology and Geography
• West Virginia University
• Morgantown, WV 26506

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• Geospatial Metadata Overview Outline
• Objectives
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Geospatial Metadata Overview Outline
• Objectives
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO Metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Objectives for this workshop
• Enable attendees to
• - read and comprehend formal metadata.
• - understand the purpose and value of metadata.
• - discriminate between minimal and quality
  metadata.
• - locate and access online resources.
• - begin exploring methods that work best for
  you.
• - build, validate, publish geospatial metadata

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• Geospatial Metadata Overview Outline
• Objectives
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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Lets Make Metadata

• Describe yourself using this format
• Title (name)
• Theme Keywords (work, play, life)
• Supplemental Information (unique characteristic)

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• Title (name) Eric Hopkins
• Theme_keyword WV GIS Technical Center
• Theme_keyword metadata
• Theme_keyword hiking
• Theme_keyword kayaking
• Theme_keyword sailing
• Theme_keyword music
• Theme_keyword photography
• Theme_keyword reading
• Supplemental_information Eric Hopkins is a GIS
  analyst at the WV GIS Technical Center.

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• What is geospatial metadata?
• From Metadata in Plain Language, USGS, 2007
• http//geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata//tools/doc/
  ctc/
• WHAT does the data set describe?
• WHO produced the data set?
• WHY was the data set created?
• HOW was the data set created?
• HOW reliable are the data (caveats)?
• HOW can I get a copy of the data set?
• WHO wrote the metadata?

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Wow! I coulda had Metadata!
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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Why use metadata?
• Data developers and distributers use metadata to
• - avoid duplication of effort.
• - reduce labor and time costs.
• - share information, internally and externally.
• - publicize their work.
• - protect their investment through personnel
  changes.
• - limit their liability.

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• Why use metadata?
• Data consumers use metadata to
• - better understand the data set that they have
  acquired.
• - focus on data elements key to their efforts.
• - discover data inside and outside of their
  organization.
• - access geospatial data via web mapping services

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• The changing paradigm of geospatial data
  production and distribution

Centralized
Distributed
Local or regional organizations produce and store
data that is accessible via services operated
under national standards.
A data set may be produced, stored and maintained
by a single organization.
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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Acronyms
• FGDC Federal Geographic Data Committee
• CSDGM Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Data
• NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure
• ISO International Standards Organization
• GOS Geospatial One-Stop
• See the links included at the end of this
  document for more information.

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing metadata for CSDGM
  compliance
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing FGDC metadata
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing FGDC metadata
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing FGDC metadata
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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• Introduction to Geospatial Metadata Workshop
  Outline
• Objectives for this workshop
• Metadata concepts
• Why use metadata?
• The Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
  Metadata (CSDGM)
• ISO metadata
• Approaches to creating metadata
• Templates
• ArcCatalog forms
• Text editing
• Requirement for data submission
• Tools for editing and parsing FGDC metadata
• Metadata Parser (mp)
• TKME
• XML editors
• Applying knowledge and tools to your data sets
• Links to online metadata resources

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Links to on-line metadata resources
Federal Geographic Data Committee
(FGDC) http//fgdc.gov/ Metadata Workbook (FGDC
Green Book) http//fgdc.gov/metadata/meta_workbo
ok.html Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
Metadata http//fgdc.gov/metadata/contstan.html
(overview, links to documents) National Spatial
Data Infrastructure (NSDI) http//www.fgdc.gov/nsd
i/nsdi.html Wisconsin Metadata
Primer http//www.geography.wisc.edu/sco/wisclinc
/metatool/ Geospatial One-Stop http//www.geodata
.gov/gos West Virginia GIS Technical
Center http//wvgis.wvu.edu/