[OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115

[Ted Habermann]

Landon et al.,

I agree completely that there is a critical need for information on the 
ISO standards and that that information is unlikely to emerge from ISO 
in the same way that it emerged from the FGDC. A couple of things that 
might be helpful:

1. Examples
NGDC has a web accessible folder with roughly 1000 ISO records in four 
groups at
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NESDIS_Products/1list.html
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NGDC/1list.html
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NOSA/1list.html
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NCDC_RSE/1list.html

These records were created from FGDC content (with remote sensing 
extensions) that is available at 
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/. At present I think they 
provide a fairly good picture of what ISO content can be created from 
FGDC records, although they are still being improved as my understanding 
of ISO improves...

We are currently working on migrating both versions of these records 
into a GeoNetwork instance at NGDC.

2. ISO Experience / Tutorials
The international ISO 191* community is growing and gaining momentum. I 
think that a wiki is a good tool for taking advantage of that community 
for creating and sharing ISO experience. Right now I have ISO content on 
two wikis (both of these have self-signed certificates so you need to 
make a security exception in FireFox):

The NGDC ISO wiki is at 
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_Metadata_Standard. 
The top part of this page is an attempt to organize the information 
around metadata needs expressed as (somewhat rhetorical) questions. The 
pages that present the answers to those questions are places for 
explanations of the standards and XML examples. The second section of 
this page is aimed at presenting the same sort of information organized 
around the structure of the ISO standard. It is probably behind the 
first section in terms of time I have been able to spend...

Some groups in NOAA are experimenting with a wiki as a place for Data 
Management Guidance and Best Practices. This wiki is at 
https://www.nosc.noaa.gov/dmc/swg/wiki/index.php. It needs some 
reorganization, but there is some similar metadata content on the page: 
https://www.nosc.noaa.gov/dmc/swg/wiki/index.php?title=Metadata_Opportunities_and_Use_Cases
One of my goals is to migrate the content from the NGDC wiki to this one 
and to focus future activity here.

3. FGDC Document
The FGDC is producing a tutorial that focuses on the North American 
Profile. I believe that Lynda Wayne at FGDC is leading that effort. I 
think the plan is that the document will be available when NAP is 
approved...

Hope that helps,
Ted

Landon Blake wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a good English language tutorial or article on 
> the metadata standard formalized as ISO 19115? I’m particularly 
> interested in how if relates to the former FGDC metadata standard used 
> in the United States, and the differences between the two standards.
>
> The FGDC metadata standard had some great documentation and tutorials. 
> I’ve found far less supplemental material for ISO 19115, but maybe I’m 
> not looking in the correct place. I worry this type of documentation 
> might not materialize since we are dealing with an ISO spec.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Landon
>
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