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Yes. For us, this would help our work flow. A plugin for Quantum
would work great. (I also just read Alex's email about qgismetaedit.
Cool!)<br>
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It would be great for a desktop GIS to update some basic metadata
elements, like updated date, coordinate system, bounding box in
projected and geo coordinates, and maybe a couple of others.
Personally, I don't care about things like listing all columns/data
types of a vector attribute table, or listing processing steps, or
embedding an thumbnail image. Sometimes they're nice but often just
bloat.<br>
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Currently, we use GeoNetwork to manually edit metadata in our public
repository and then save it locally as an XML file to include some with
direct downloads. If we could reverse the process (create locally on
desktop and save as XML, TXT, etc.., then push up to GeoNetwork), and
at the same time have some basic fields updated automatically, that
would help.<br>
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- John<br>
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Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware
227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501
Tel: (302) 831-3584
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Sampson, David wrote:
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<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Ahh.. Metadata</font></span>
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<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">I am learning about
Qgis plugins lately and thought I would extend out to the OSGEO
community at large. As I am going through creating some plugins and
learning about OWS services and trying my hand at a catalogue plugin
for QGIS I got to thinking, what does the open source world do for
managing their metadata on their desktop?</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">I know and quite
like projects like geo-network and our own flavour at </font></span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca/"><span
lang="en-ca"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca/</font></u></span></a><span
lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2"> but I am curious as to what
people use for their desktop.</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Back when FGDC was
the spec of choice I used MP (metadata Parser) quite extensively </font></span><a
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href="http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/mp.html"><span
lang="en-ca"><u><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/mp.html</font></u></span></a><span
lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2"> but with the new world of
ISO and the upcoming NAP (North American Profile) I wonder what people
are doing now.</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Would a lean
desktop editor help people in their workflow. Essentialy maintaining
their metadata on the desktop then exporting (through valid XML) to
publishing facilities such as geonetwork..</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">The idea is to
couple data and metadata while people are working with the data.</font></span>
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<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Are people working
on this? Do open source solutions already exist?</font></span>
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<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Would a plugin for
QGIS be useful? Or a desktop app that can hit many softwares like
GRASS, QGIS and others?</font></span>
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<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Thoughts?</font></span>
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<p><span lang="en-ca"><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheers</font></span><span
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