[OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Landon,
I would suggest to use the standards list for that since that is its  
purpose :-)
Ciao,
Jeroen

On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Landon Blake wrote:

> Ted,
>
> The wiki looks like a great resource! Thanks for sharing the link.  
> I'll
> read over the material on the wiki page.
>
> I wonder if it would be practical to set-up a mailing list for ISO  
> 19115
> discussions? Could we use the OSGeo Standards mailing list for this
> purpose?
>
> Landon
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>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115
>
> 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_Opportun
> ities_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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