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color=#0000ff size=2>Old docs are useful, but to make compliant software you
need most current spec/standard...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Cheers</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> standards-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:standards-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Piergiorgio
Cipriano<BR><B>Sent:</B> November 23, 2009 13:06<BR><B>To:</B> Arnulf
Christl<BR><B>Cc:</B> standards@lists.osgeo.org; Scott Schwab<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Re: Metadata Standards and ISO 19139<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Arnold, even if the "I" in ISO does not stand for "isOpen" ... ISO
too published schemas available for free:
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href="http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/">http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/</A><BR>
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<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>
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<DIV>pg</DIV>
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<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>
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<DIV class=h5>Scott Schwab wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">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><BR>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><BR>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><BR>S<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV></DIV>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><BR>This is one of
reasons that they put up with the oftentimes onerous task of running specs
through TC 211. Thanks OGC folks.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>[1] which are
remnants of the Open Source background of OGC which they take very serious.
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