<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Landon,<div>FGDC is actively working with the GeoNetwork project to get transformation scenarios from FGDC to ISO 19139 embedded as a standard feature of GeoNetwork opensource.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jeroen</div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Piergiorgio Cipriano wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Landon,</div><div>have you ever heard the following ones?</div><div>* GeoNetwork [<a href="http://geonetwork-opensource.org/" target="_blank">http://geonetwork-opensource.org/</a>]</div><div>* CatMDEdit [<a href="http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/</a>]</div>
<div>* MIG Editor [<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/migeditor/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/migeditor/</a>]</div><div><br></div><div>Even if ISO19139 doc is not for free, XML schemas are available here:</div>
<div><a href="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/" target="_blank">http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Have fun.</div><div><br></div><div>pg</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/13 Landon Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lblake@ksninc.com" target="_blank">lblake@ksninc.com</a>></span><br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">It seems that a lot of energy in geospatial metadata today
is focused on the ISO 19139 standard. I wonder what impact this will have on
efforts of open source programmers to support geospatial metadata standards.
The FGDC metadata standard is available for free over the web, and has a lot of
supporting documentation.</span></font></p><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Is ISO 19139 going to replace the FGDC metadata standard
here in the United States?
I know adoption of an international standard should be a good thing, but I
wonder what it will mean for the open source community. At least you can
usually get a copy of an OGC spec, even though you have to sign their silly
data agreement.</span></font></p><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Any thoughts on this? If ISO 19139 is going to replace FGDC
metadata, are open source applications making any preparations for the change?</span></font></p><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Landon</span></font></p><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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