[postgis-users] Metadata (fgdc, etc)?

[Bill Thoen]

Metadata is more suited to an XML document tree like structure than a 
rows and columns table structure, so I think you'd probably want to do 
something like the srtext field in the spatial_ref_sys table in a 
PostGIS spatialized database. But I haven't heard of anyone doing this 
yet. Also, you've probably already googled this, but just in case, the 
FGDC metadata standard (FGDC-STD-001-1998) is at 
http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/csdgm/.

Webb Sprague wrote:
> I am sorry if I missed it in my cursory search...
>
> Is there a postgis (at least postgresql) specific way to store
> metadata?  Any personal best practices?  A link would be fine.
>
> (This makes me wonder about keeping track of the temporal validity of
> either a table or a geometry, like when a city is busy subdividing and
> annexing, but that is another story for another day.)
>
> Thanks for all the help and the (to Refractions and developer
> community) the great free product.
> W
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