[GRASS5] raster file history question

[Eric G. Miller]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:52:57PM -0500, Helena Mitasova wrote:
> In the US many government agencies must include a standard and very detailed
> metadata file with the data that they distribute. It would be extremely useful
> if this file was imported
> along with the data and either stored in the description part of history file
> (r.info might need modification then)
> or as a separate file, along with history file. As far as I know there is free
> code supporting
> the management of this file, in case that something more than just copying the
> file to the GRASS
> database would be considered.

USGS has a free set of FGDC metadata tools.  Most of the validation and
output tools are command line, but there's an editor either using Tk or
Athena widgets.

GRASS could help by generating some required "fields", but the majority
of it is really the user's responsibility to maintain.

There is some broken handling for doing FGDC metadata in GRASS, but I
think it'd be more appropriate just to generate a stub of those things
GRASS can fill in, and leave it to the user to figure out the rest.

What Markus has been talking about, would maybe be appropriate for the
Processing Steps section, but would still probably be too obtuse without
explication by the metadata author.

A generic log history is maybe more appropriate?

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>