[GRASS5] adding metadata in GRASS 5.7

Michel Wurtz mjwurtz at wanadoo.fr
Thu Sep 2 16:37:58 EDT 2004


Helena wrote:
[...]
> It does not have to be so detailed, but a lot of the information provided
> in this file is essential when this data are to be combined with data
> from other sources.
> I am sure that for many users it is important to be able to edit the metadata,
> especially if one wants to add some comments about the processing that was done
> to the file within GRASS. So at least to keep the capabilities for handling
> metadata as in 5.3 is needed.

Why not use the ISO standards for metadata in Grass ?  BTW, it seems that XML
is becomming a good choice for structuring this kind od data.

Just my 0.02 €

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Michel Wurtz - Auzeville-Tolosane






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