FW: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Bruce Bannerman
B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au
Tue Aug 31 18:17:10 PDT 2010
Fyi,
Ben Searle from Australia's OSDM, asked me to forward this to the list.
Bruce
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben.Searle
> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:38 AM
> To: Bruce Bannerman; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata Catalogueing
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> Bruce and Others....,
>
> Thank you for providing this information to Timmie.
>
> As an update on some of your comments, OSDM is undertaking a
> couple of related activities that may also be of interest.
>
> We are currently in the process of re-building ASDD using
> GeoNetwork. This will enable a greater range of
> functionality including establishing direct access to data,
> rather than just the metadata record, provision of a
> catalogue of services and a significantly improved user
> interface (the Interface is part of a phase two activity).
> We are hoping to have the GeoNetwork version up in the next
> month or so.
>
> Secondly, we are in the process of re-developing the National
> Gazetteer and will be making this available at no cost via a
> new interface that will support both human and web service
> interactions. We are looking at roughly 20 weeks to have
> this completed. It is also likely that there will be a
> single interface to the gazetteer and the ASDD.
>
> Finally, we have some ANU software engineering students
> working on an ANZMet Lite replacement (for various reasons we
> are not able to make ANZMet Lite open source and also its
> architecture is such that it is very difficult to add new
> profiles or other metadata capabilities such as Dublin Core.
>
> The student project is focussing on similar capabilities to
> ANZMet Lite but with the ability to 'easily' add new
> profiles. A level of auto-configuration of entry screens
> based on the schema provided is part of this. While their
> project will not provide a production ready capability, we
> are aiming to employ one of the students to take it to a
> production ready application. I am anticipating this to be
> available early in the new year.
>
> I hope this additional information is of interest.
>
> Regards
>
> Ben Searle
> General Manager,
> Australian Government Office of Spatial Data Management
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Bannerman [mailto:B.Bannerman at bom.gov.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 26 August 2010 9:55
> To: OSGeo Discussions
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic-Metadata
> Catalogueing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
>
> Timmie,
>
> The Australian Government's Office of Spatial Data
> Management (OSDM) has been coordinating a few resources
> relating to Metadata that you may find of use.
>
> They are aimed at the ANZLIC Profile of ISO 19115 /
> 19139, however they are also relevant to other users of the
> standards as well.
>
> (fyi, ANZLIC is Australia and New Zealand's SDI Governance body.
>
> Also , essentially there is minimal difference between
> the ANZLIC Profile and the default ISO standard).
>
>
> Items of interest:
>
> [1] OSDM Metadata entry point.
>
> [2] Metadata resources page.
>
> [3] What we're planning with GeoNetwork.
>
> [4] An introduction to using ISO 19115. In particular,
> I'd recommend checking out
> the document 'ANZLIC Metadata Profile Guidelines'.
> It gives a good overview
> of why we need Metadata.
>
> [5] The ANZMet Toolkit.
>
> [6] ANZMet Lite: A stand alone Metadata Entry tool that
> generates ISO 19139 XML records
> that can be imported into GeoNetwork. While I do
> not consider it an appropriate Enterprise
> grade tool, it does provide an interesting
> 'Wizard' type user interface to guide people
> through the entry of their Spatial Metadata. The
> Australian Government retains the
> IP to this product. If there is sufficient
> interest, I understand that OSDM may be willing
> to release the source code under an appropriate
> Open Source license. (It is Windows
> based and I think uses MS Access).
>
> [7] A page containing presentations describing and
> showing the ANZMet Lite user interface.
>
>
> Congratulations to OSDM for putting this excellent
> resource together.
>
>
> And before we get too complacent, consideration should
> go to Rob Atkinson's and Rob Woodcock's (Australia's CSIRO)
> vision of future Spatial Metadata, where metadata is stored
> and exchanged as part of the data (and data model), ideally
> via OGC GML Community Schema / Profiles.
>
>
> Bruce Bannerman
>
> (apologies Markus, I won't have time in the next few
> weeks to add this to the wiki...)
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/default.aspx
>
> [2]
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/default.aspx
>
> [3] http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/GeoNetwork/default.aspx
>
> [4]
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+Metadata+Profile/default.aspx
>
> [5]
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/ANZM
> et+Toolkit+%28final+draft+-+07.2009%29/default.aspx
>
> [6]
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/ANZM
> et+Toolkit+(final+draft+-+07.2009)/ANZMetLiteSetup-1.01.zip/?id=959
>
> [7]
> http://www.osdm.gov.au/Metadata/ANZLIC+metadata+resources/ANZM
> et+Toolkit+(final+draft+-+07.2009)/06_1QuickStartIntroToANZMet
Lite.pdf/?id=999
>
>
>
> On 26/08/10 3:41 AM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Timmie
> <timmichelsen at gmx-topmail.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I have piled up quite some data for a current project.
> >
> > In order to keep track of the data I would
> like to use some automatic indexing
> > to create a data catalog.
>
> Important issue! Time ago I put together this Wiki page:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Metadata_software
>
> Please add all new findings to it,
>
> Markus
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