[OSGeo-Edu] Update on the Metadata Chapter of the Free GIS Book

[Landon Blake]

Charlie wrote: "Do you think you should mention and point to the FCGC
metadata
standards?"

I was going to do this in the references section at the end of the
chapter. But I can throw it in the body as well.

Charlie wrote"Another example of a standard might be EML (Ecological
Modeling
Language) that is established by the US NSF Long Term Ecological
Resarech group for a standard for ecological data."

I'll check this out.

Charlie wrote: "It would be good to show an example somehow."

Do you mean an example of metadata? I'll have to chew on how I could do
this...

Charlie wrote: "Are there any FOSS metadata managers that are similar to
the way
ESRI's ArcGIS allows you to enter metadata? Or do you want to list or
show ways of entering metadata developed in certain OSGeo projects?"

If I remember correctly the Spanish team asked me not to mention
specific software tools in the chapter. I think they are including these
references in an appendix.

Thanks for the feedback.

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Schweik [mailto:cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 4:18 AM
To: Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] Update on the Metadata Chapter of the Free GIS
Book

Hi Landon,

It's coming together! :-) 

A couple quick comments:

1) Do you think you should mention and point to the FCGC metadata
standards?

2) Another example of a standard might be EML (Ecological Modeling
Language) that is established by the US NSF Long Term Ecological
Resarech group for a standard for ecological data.

3) It would be good to show an example somehow.

4) Are there any FOSS metadata managers that are similar to the way
ESRI's ArcGIS allows you to enter metadata? Or do you want to list or
show ways of entering metadata developed in certain OSGeo projects?

Thanks for your efforts. Have you heard anything from Victor (FREEGIS
book) in a while? 

Charlie

On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:49 -0800, Landon Blake wrote:
> I've written some more content of the Metadata chapter for the Free
> GIS Book. You can read it here:
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> http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=df5nfmf8_37gc47xc
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> This new content includes sections on the content of metadata and
> metadata standards. I've decided that at some point in the future I
> will have to write a separate article on cooking up your own metadata
> standard. I talk about this a little bit in the chapter, but I don't
> want to get totally distracted. :]
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> As always, I welcome comments, corrections, and suggestions.
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> I've also added definitions for "Geospatial Metadata Instance" and
> "Geospatial Metadata Standard" to the Starter Dictionary on the OSGeo
> Wiki.
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> Landon
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> P.S. - I think the chapter is now about 2/3 done. When it is finished
> I would be happy to test out Docbook with the chapter.
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