[gdal-dev] ISO Metadata

[Newcomb, Doug]

Hi Damian

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Damian Dixon <damian.dixon at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When ever anyone mentions ISO metadata I think of:
>
> ISO 19103
> ISO 19115
>
> Are we talking about these?
>

I am thinking ISO 19115 and ISO 19115-1



>
> If we are then I would just like to mention that both of these standards
> lose information and context when you attempt to populate the fields from
> actual data products.
>
> There is also the issue of interpretation as to what data fields to copy
> to which metadata fields.
>
> Because of this I would suggest that each data format should store it's
> metadata in a lossless form.
>
> An xlst should be provided to convert each data-format metadata to the
> appropriate ISO metadata format.
>
> Regards
> Damian
>
> PS. Metadata for data does not excite me, but it is a necessary evil that
> is becoming very important.
>
>
Metadata only excites me when I get someone else's data and I need to know
how it was created.  At which point it has my full attention :-)

Doug




>
> On 15 October 2015 at 22:07, Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If anyone wants to follow up on metadata, Sean is right... here is a
>> different subject thread for metadata.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Sean Gillies <sean at mapbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Kurt,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Kurt Schwehr <schwehr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sean got what I was meaning to say.  Do we want the output to have some
>>>> record of which mode was used.  I think the answer is likely no.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree, no. Without a larger provenance framework of some kind there's
>>> not much to be done with that information. And such a provenance framework (
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ for example) covers this kind of thing
>>> already.
>>>
>>>
>>>> And it reminds me that I need to think about a driver for writing ISO
>>>> metadata files.  (bleck)  The processing steps would go in an xml iso
>>>> metadata sidecar.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Let's discuss ISO metadata in a different thread :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sean Gillies
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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