Just to clarify my original statement about ISO19115/ISO19139 not being free. The schemas are free and public available, as others have stated. The non-free items were not the specification/schema, but the reference documentation, text and diagrams that help in understanding the specifications fields. In my case the company ordered them an ISO specification clearinghouse. Documentation for the OGC specifications, which the ISO uses, are available at the OGC website. <br>
<br>Sorry for any confusion.<br><br>Scott<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Carl Reed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:creed@opengeospatial.org">creed@opengeospatial.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Just an item that might be of interest:<br>
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The following is the agenda for the OGC Metadata Domain Working Group meeting in Mountain View in early December.<br>
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Status of the Revision of ISO 19115, Dave Danko - ESRI<br>
Canadian Federal Government Standard for GeoSpatial Data, Brian McLeod - NRCan<br>
WMO Core Metadata Profile of ISO 19115, the WMO Information System (WIS), and global Discovery Access and Retrieval catalogues, Chris Little - UK Met Office/WMO<br>
Coverages and ISO Metadata,Ted Habermann - NOAA<br>
Linking Service, collections & dataset metadata in practice, Frédéric Houbie - ERDAS<br>
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If anyone is interested, I can ask that these presentations be publicly posted on OGCNetwork.<br>
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Regards<br>
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Carl<br>
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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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S<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.<br></div></div><div class="im">
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