FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Bruce Bannerman B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au
Tue Aug 31 18:17:10 PDT 2010


Fyi,

Ben Searle from Australia's OSDM, asked me to forward this to the list.

Bruce


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben.Searle
> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:38 AM
> To: Bruce Bannerman; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing 
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 
> Bruce and Others....,
>  
> Thank you for providing this information to Timmie.
>  
> As an update on some of your comments, OSDM is undertaking a 
> couple of related activities that may also be of interest.
>  
> We are currently in the process of re-building ASDD using 
> GeoNetwork.  This will enable a greater range of 
> functionality including establishing direct access to data, 
> rather than just the metadata record, provision of a 
> catalogue of services and a significantly improved user 
> interface (the Interface is part of a phase two activity).  
> We are hoping to have the GeoNetwork version up in the next 
> month or so.
>  
> Secondly, we are in the process of re-developing the National 
> Gazetteer and will be making this available at no cost via a 
> new interface that will support both human and web service 
> interactions.  We are looking at roughly 20 weeks to have 
> this completed.  It is also likely that there will be a 
> single interface to the gazetteer and the ASDD.
>  
> Finally, we have some ANU software engineering students 
> working on an ANZMet Lite replacement (for various reasons we 
> are not able to make ANZMet Lite open source and also its 
> architecture is such that it is very difficult to add new 
> profiles or other metadata capabilities such as Dublin Core.
>  
> The student project is focussing on similar capabilities to 
> ANZMet Lite but with the ability to 'easily' add new 
> profiles.  A level of auto-configuration of entry screens 
> based on the schema provided is part of this.  While their 
> project will not provide a production ready capability, we 
> are aiming to employ one of the students to take it to a 
> production ready application.  I am anticipating this to be 
> available early in the new year.
>  
> I hope this additional information is of interest.
> 
> Regards 
>   
> Ben Searle
> General Manager,
> Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management 
> 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Bruce Bannerman [mailto:B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au] 
> 	Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2010 9:55
> 	To: OSGeo Discussions
> 	Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata 
> Catalogueing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> 	
> 	
> 	Timmie,
> 	
> 	The Australian Government's Office of Spatial Data 
> Management (OSDM) has been coordinating a few resources 
> relating to Metadata that you may find of use.
> 	
> 	They are aimed at the ANZLIC Profile of ISO 19115 / 
> 19139, however they are also relevant to other users of the 
> standards as well.
> 	
> 	(fyi, ANZLIC is Australia and New Zealand's SDI Governance body.
> 	
> 	Also , essentially there is minimal difference between 
> the ANZLIC Profile and the default ISO standard).
> 	
> 	
> 	Items of interest:
> 	
> 	[1] OSDM Metadata entry point.
> 	
> 	[2] Metadata resources page.
> 	
> 	[3] What we're planning with GeoNetwork.
> 	
> 	[4] An introduction to using ISO 19115. In particular, 
> I'd recommend checking out
> 	     the document 'ANZLIC Metadata Profile Guidelines'. 
> It gives a good overview
> 	     of why we need Metadata.
> 	
> 	[5] The ANZMet Toolkit.
> 	
> 	[6] ANZMet Lite: A stand alone Metadata Entry tool that 
> generates ISO 19139 XML records 
> 	      that can be imported into GeoNetwork. While I do 
> not consider it an appropriate Enterprise
> 	     grade tool, it does provide an interesting 
> 'Wizard' type user interface to guide people
> 	    through the entry of their Spatial Metadata. The 
> Australian Government retains the
> 	    IP to this product. If there is sufficient 
> interest, I understand that OSDM may be willing
> 	    to release the source code under an appropriate 
> Open Source license. (It is Windows
> 	    based and I think uses MS Access).
> 	
> 	[7] A page containing presentations describing and 
> showing the ANZMet Lite user interface.
> 	
> 	
> 	Congratulations to OSDM for putting this excellent 
> resource together.
> 	
> 	
> 	And before we get too complacent, consideration should 
> go to Rob Atkinson's and Rob Woodcock's (Australia's CSIRO) 
> vision of future Spatial Metadata, where metadata is stored 
> and exchanged as part of the data (and data model), ideally 
> via OGC GML Community Schema / Profiles.
> 	
> 	
> 	Bruce Bannerman
> 	
> 	(apologies Markus, I won't have time in the next few 
> weeks to add this to the wiki...)
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	[1] http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/default.aspx
> 	
> 	[2] 
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/default.aspx
> 	
> 	[3] http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/GeoNetwork/default.aspx
> 	
> 	[4] 
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+Metadata+Profile/default.aspx
> 	
> 	[5] 
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/ANZM
> et+Toolkit+%28final+draft+-+07.2009%29/default.aspx
> 	
> 	[6] 
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/ANZM
> et+Toolkit+(final+draft+-+07.2009)/ANZMetLiteSetup-1.01.zip/?id=959
> 	
> 	[7] 
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/ANZM
> et+Toolkit+(final+draft+-+07.2009)/06_1QuickStartIntroToANZMet
Lite.pdf/?id=999
> 	
> 	
> 	
> 	On 26/08/10 3:41 AM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 	
> 	
> 
> 		On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Timmie 
> <timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> 		> Hello,
> 		> I have piled up quite some data for a current project.
> 		>
> 		> In order to keep track of the data I would 
> like to use some automatic indexing
> 		> to create a data catalog.
> 		
> 		Important issue! Time ago I put together this Wiki page:
> 		 http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Metadata_software
> 		
> 		Please add all new findings to it,
> 		
> 		Markus
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