[gdal-dev] Call for discussion for "RFC 43 GDALMajorObject::GetMetadataDomainList()"

[Newcomb, Doug]

Does that include the upcoming ISO19115-1 ?

Doug


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at mines-paris.org
> wrote:

> Kurt,
> >
> > I have been trying to think through how an OGR driver for ISO19115 /
>  19139
> > would work.
>
> Do you mean a driver that would read (and/or write) ISO 19139 XML files ?
> Do
> such documents fit (enough) well with the OGR data model ? Is there a
> concept
> of record/feature ? I'm unfortunately not familiar with what those
> documents
> look like.
>
> > I'm going to work on a band aid to the new BAG tweak to their
> > ISO metadata, but we definitely could use a bare driver for read / write.
>
> Not sure to understand your need about BAG. There is already a "xml:BAG"
> metadata domain into which the ISO19115 stuff is dumped. So your need
> would be
> an API to parse the XML ? There are perhaps good ideas in the various
> projects
> that revolve around CSW.
>
> > The quest boils down to what is the minimal set of things that we should
> > aim for and how tolerant of craziness should we cope with.  I've seen
> some
> > "interesting" things passed off as ISO metadata.  As a start to this, I'm
> > going to start trying to collect a range of sample files.  The timing is
> > pretty good in that there is a discussion of FGDC to ISO conversion on
> the
> > IOOS Data Management and Communications (DMAC) steering committee mailing
> > list.
> >
>
> Even
>
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