Metadata

Published Records

Metadata Home Page

To provide a link to your published metadata record, go to the published metadata page, click on the desired view of your record (e.g. HTML, TEXT, FAQ, XML), and copy/paste the URL from the web browser into an email or web page.

NGDC Geoportal

This metadata portal has been accepted as NGDC's metadata discovery tool.

• Go to NGDC Geoportal

National Discovery Portals

Our metadata records are harvested to these sites.

• Data.gov
• Geo.Data.gov
• Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)
• Geoplatform.gov

Community Specific Portals

• Data.Gov/Ocean
• IOCM Geoportal
• Space Physics Interactive Data Resource

CLASS Metadata

• NGDC WAF
• NCDC WAF
• NODC WAF

Metadata Standards

• ISO 19115 and ISO 19115-2
  
• Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC)
  
• Content Standard for Geospatial Digital Metadata:Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata (FGDC/RSE)
  
• Local Extensions to FGDC
  
• Metadata Crosswalks

Vocabularies

• NASA/GCMD Keywords Vocabulary lists for science themes, data centers, satellites, instruments, locations and projects.
• Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Name Table
• R2R Vocabularies (html)
• R2R Vocabularies (xml)
• NERC Data Grid Vocabulary server at BODC
• U.S. Board on Geographic Names
• ISO 19115 Topic Categories
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• IHO Limits of Oceans and Seas
• IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of undersea feature names(2010-08-24)

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• NGDC Vocabulary Service

Metadata Content Guidance

For ISO

• ISO Objects on NOAA Environmental Data Management Wiki
  • ISO FAQ
• ISO Workbook PDF

For FGDC

• Clickable Chart of FGDC Standard
• Data Set Identifiers and other Unique IDs
• Keywords
  
• NOAA Supplemental
• CI_OnlineResource
• NOSA Validation Notes

Metadata Maintenance

• Annual Metadata Maintenance Guide
• Your Personal Metadata Management - organized by datatype/data manager on the intranet wiki

How To...

Transition from FGDC to ISO

• FGDC to ISO Steps - translate existing FGDC records to ISO records
• DB to ISO -- create new ISO records from a database

Use SVN

SVN_for_Metadata

Validate Metadata

• Validation of Format and Schema
• Schematron Validation
• FGDC Content Validation
• ISO Validation

Transform XML

FGDC_XML_to_HTML

Edit XML

• How to Edit Multiple Files in Oxygen
• Set up Template Text in Oxygen
• Format the text in Oxygen

Metadata Tools

Enterprise Metadata System (EMS)

• EMS Architecture
• Glossary of Terms
• Metadata PPT (May, 2011)

Docucomp

• About ISO Components
• About Docucomp Component Management System
• Docucomp GUI

Web Accessible Folder (WAF)

• About WAF Processing
• WAF On-Demand-Processing Service

Resolver

• About Metadata Resolver (Quick Start Guide)
• | Record Services

Spiral Tracker

• Rubric Scores for EMS

Oxygen XML Editor

• About
  
• How To Download and Set Up
• How to Use Oxygen for ISO
• How to Use Oxygen for FGDC

Altova Map Force

"graphical data mapping, conversion, and integration tool that maps data between any combination of XML, database, flat file, EDI, Excel 2007+, XBRL, and/or Web service, then transforms data instantly or autogenerates royalty-free data integration code for the execution of recurrent conversions."

• About
• User Tips

Other

Review of ISO Metadata Editors (by FGDC)

MP from USGS

• MP Information

Community Resources

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Website
International Metadata List

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Outdated Metadata Wiki Pages

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last update: --Anna.milan 10:38, 10 February 2012 (MST)