Arnold, even if the "I" in ISO does not stand for "isOpen" ... ISO too published schemas available for free:<div><a href="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/">http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/</a><br>
<div><br></div><div>And somewhere on web you also find available old draft (*) documentation:</div><div><a href="https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/pub/Infosrvices/AnzlicIsoMetadata/19139_DTS20051008.pdf">https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/pub/Infosrvices/AnzlicIsoMetadata/19139_DTS20051008.pdf</a></div>
<div>(DTS stands for "Draft Techcnical Specification)</div><div><br></div><div>pg</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/23 Arnulf Christl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arnulf.christl@wheregroup.com">arnulf.christl@wheregroup.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Scott Schwab wrote:<br>
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The corporation I work for has had a few contracts with the US government, and over the last couple of years these customers have been asking for ISO19115/19139 metadata, replacing the request for FGDC. The code to generate the ISO 19139 documents is more complicated and the generated output is much more verbose, compared to FGDC. The ISO output is large enough that you really need a tool like CatMDEdit to qc the output.<br>
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I have wondered if the customers are just saying they want the ISO 19115 format, not because of a need but just because an international standard sounds better in contract negotiations,<br>
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And just for a bit of clarification, the ISO 19115 is an international standard (140 pages), but it does not specify what the XML tags should really look like. To produce XML, you need the ISO 19139 technical specification (112 pages). To my knowledge neither document is free.<br>
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Remember that the "O" in OGC stands for Open[1]. Whatever ISO standard is part of an OGC standard means that relevant information is available royalty free on OGC websites (as it is stated in the OGC bylaws). For example here: <a href="http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/" target="_blank">http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/</a><br>
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This is one of reasons that they put up with the oftentimes onerous task of running specs through TC 211. Thanks OGC folks.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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[1] which are remnants of the Open Source background of OGC which they take very serious.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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