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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Ahh.. Metadata</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I know and quite like projects like geo-network and our own flavour at </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca/"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://geodiscover.cgdi.ca/</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> but I am curious as to what people use for their desktop.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Back when FGDC was the spec of choice I used MP (metadata Parser) quite extensively </FONT></SPAN><A HREF="http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/mp.html"><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/mp.html</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"> 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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Are people working on this? Do open source solutions already exist?</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">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 SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thoughts?</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN>
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