[OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115

[Ted Habermann]

Landon,

There is a well established metadata list at 
metadata at lists.thinkburst.com which might be better, particularly 
because it reaches many FGDC people and may help them understand the 
implications of the transition to ISO.

Ted

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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> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115
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> 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
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>> in the United States, and the differences between the two standards.
>>
>> The FGDC metadata standard had some great documentation and tutorials.
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>> I've found far less supplemental material for ISO 19115, but maybe I'm
>>     
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>   
>> 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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