<div dir="ltr">Dear Paolo et al,,<div><br><div>yeah, I see it (thanks, QMD format in Layer Properties with attributes) but it's best to stay with the</div><div>standard, which is something like I mentioned earlier; the precise XML details matter for parsing and compliance</div><div>across platforms and tools (instead of :inventing own metadata formats).</div><div><br></div><div>I am still catching up with this one</div><div><a href="http://archaeogeek.github.io/qgis-uk-glasgow-2016-metadata/#/" target="_blank">http://archaeogeek.github.io/qgis-uk-glasgow-2016-metadata/#/</a> <br></div><div>But FAIR and INSPIRE are only covering the (small) EU market for name sake, if even that;</div><div>whereas the U.S. (MORPHO-NCEAS, FGDC, USGS tools) and China/Asian matters MUCH MORE.</div><div>e.g. <a href="https://github.com/NCEAS/morpho">https://github.com/NCEAS/morpho</a> and its repository used for U.S. NSF and governments + libraries. <br></div><div><br></div><div>And the ocean applications are hardly there yet, or in climate change mapping and modeling (just see IPCC for lack of ISO metadata).</div><div><br></div><div>Metadata is essential, also for, and with, R code, phython workflows etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Sure, if there is interest, I would be delighted to talk to somebody in more detail</div><div>and how to make it happen. Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Again, I am thinking here of geology, geography, climate, social sciences, biological, remote sensing and model prediction data and work etc.</div><div>For starters, here is
<a href="https://www.itis.gov/">https://www.itis.gov/</a> (which we use a lot for our GIS work with biological species, and with metadata); Those things are to be catered</div><div>in open source GIS works. I have not looked into the Google Cloud and Amazon Cloud, yet.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry to beat here a dead horse, but for governmental, contractor and science projects and software, without metadata any GIS work is not acceptable, nor serious.</div><div>So it really matters; I am specifically thinking here of publication standards for high-impact journals, peer-review and reviewing.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, happy to provide input and expertise as you require for QGIS.</div><div>To me, metadata are an anti-corruption and transparency measure. I assume the world needs those things these days...</div><div><br></div><div>Keep me posted please</div><div> Falk Huettmann PhD, Professor</div><div> University of Alaska Fairbanks</div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it" target="_blank">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Falk,<br>
metadata are now in standard qgis, you'll find it in Layer>Properties.<br>
Please check and let us know. There is room for improvement, please<br>
consider supporting it.<br>
Cheers.<br>
<br>
On 17/09/19 09:14, Falk Huettmann wrote:<br>
> Hi there, QGIS community,<br>
> <br>
> very sorry,<br>
> but I am still struggling with xml ISO compliant FGDC metadata in<br>
> QGIS.<br>
> <br>
> I only see the great webpage on MetaEdit; <br>
> well, except, I cannot find it in the PlugIns and the<br>
> website seems to be not supported anymore; no reply upon request.<br>
> <a href="http://gis-lab.info/qa/metatools-eng.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gis-lab.info/qa/metatools-eng.html</a><br>
> <br>
> I would welcome any suggestions here on what to do; big thanks.<br>
> <br>
> QGIS, like any GIS and software and data, cannot live without metadata<br>
> and such an editor.<br>
> Even more so, that's where Open Source can entirely outcompete<br>
> and win....I am thinking here for instance of (biological species<br>
> taxonomy) survey data with GIS data sources all read-in automatically <br>
> for modeling and predictions; with automated workflows...and then<br>
> readily documented with XML metadata and parsed and presented in html,<br>
> for instance.<br>
> <br>
> See here a monopoly piece in gitub; how can that be linked with QGIS<br>
> effectively ?.<br>
> <a href="https://github.com/usgs/fort-pymdwizard/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/usgs/fort-pymdwizard/</a> <br>
> <br>
> For projects - commercial and science-, compliant ISO metadata can be<br>
> the deal breaker<br>
> <br>
> And I think we should probably not work with 'homebrew' code and rely on it.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks so much again for any pointers; very best<br>
> Falk Huettmann<br>
> <br>
> <br>
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