[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing

[Martin Seiler]

Hi,

> I found two solutions:
> * SpatialDataCataloguingScript at
> http://code.google.com/p/spatialguru/wiki/SpatialDataCataloguingScript
> 
> => this works well after some fixing.
> But how do I best use the generated XML file?

> Apparently, gvSIG has some tool as well:
> Semi-automatic Metadata Extraction from Imagery and Cartographic data
> http://www.geoinfo.uji.es/pubs/igarss07-metadata-cameraready.pdf


You also might want to take a look at CatMDEdit [1].

Not too long ago I did a survey on Metadata-Editors regarding their
ability to extract metadata in a semi-automatic manner.  It seems to be
a widely neglected field, with a lot of potential...
CatMDEdit was the most useful editor that I've tested, but in the end it
didn't fulfill the requirements.  I also ended up writing python scripts
that make use of gdal/ogr, creating ISO- and INSPIRE-complaint metadata
sets.


Ciao,

Martin



[1] http://forge.osor.eu/projects/catmdedit/