<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am wondering about how to link metadata to
individual data entries in a postGIS DB. What seems most sensible is to
avoid making a huge number of tables/fields (e.g. to accomodate something
like FDGC-CSDGM that has close to 400 elements) only to find the tables are
scarcely populated and rather consider metadata as "documents" pertaining to
individual data elements or data groups (e.g. all measurements from sonde
X). I am trying to think of metadata backends to support such
document-style metadata and I am wondering what other people use to attach
metadata to their postGIS data. Any users of native XML backends (e.g.
Berkeley DB XML) alongside postGIS ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Given the existence of XML Schemas for many
metadata standards, it would seem logical to use an XML backend both to store
and validate the metadata. That obviously raises a problem of having
another backend.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yves Moisan</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>