[GRASS-user] OT: metadata authoring tools

[Luca Casagrande]

Don't know if this can help, but here:

http://www.jornadasgvsig.gva.es/fileadmin/conselleria/Documentacion/3asJornadas/sesiones/sesion4/Gestion_metadatos_en_gvSIG.pdf

You can find the paper of "Semiautomatic extraction and management of
metadata in gvSIG"
presented during latest gvSIG conference.

Bye

Luca


On Dec 12, 2007 10:30 PM, Patton, Eric <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> Dylan:
> >Sorry for the off-topic post. I am part of an "ISO Metadata Editor Review"
> >committee over here, and was looking for some initial feedback on what
> >various parties in the FOSS world use for metadata authoring, etc. There are
> >some members of the group who are looking to building an extension to the
> >BibTeX standard as a way of keeping the entire process in a text format,
> >and "integrateable"  into standard document preparation techniques.
>
> Metadata is a very big deal in our shop; there's been a big push in the last
> 3-4 years to get all of our legacy data online and documented. Pretty
> much every bathymetry raster dataset we collect is destined for an ArcIMS
> public web portal, and so has to have FGDC-compliant metadata accompanying it.
>
> We use ArcGIS' ArcCatalog to write our metadata. I've been casting about for
> a FOSS metadata authoring tool, with not much luck. The USGS has
> a couple tools called xtme/tkme which are used for metadata authoring. I tried
> installing them once, but never really had a lot of success with it.
>
> I'd be really interested in some kind of metadata scripting tool that uses
> LaTeX/BibTeX. Are they intending to write a new document class to integrate into LaTeX?
>
> Metadata authoring is pretty much the only reason I need to use ArcGIS right now.
> If a free, open source alternative became available that was usable in a GRASS scripting
> environment, that would be great!
>
> Dylan:
> >Any thoughts, suggestions, or stories would be appreciated. We are hoping to
> >make a big impact on the formation of several federal (US) metadata authoring
> >policies- with emphasis on open source software.
>
> Good luck, and please keep the list updated on events. I'm definitely interested.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ~ Eric.
>
>
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