[Qgis-user] QGIS metadata options ? (Thanks; re-post)

[Falk Huettmann]

Dear Paolo et al,,

yeah, I see it (thanks, QMD format in Layer Properties with attributes) but
it's best to stay with the
standard, which is something like I mentioned earlier; the precise XML
details matter for parsing and compliance
across platforms and tools (instead of :inventing own metadata formats).

I am still catching up with this one
http://archaeogeek.github.io/qgis-uk-glasgow-2016-metadata/#/
But FAIR and INSPIRE are only covering the (small) EU market for name sake,
if even that;
whereas the U.S. (MORPHO-NCEAS, FGDC, USGS tools) and China/Asian matters
MUCH MORE.
e.g. https://github.com/NCEAS/morpho  and its repository used for U.S. NSF
and governments + libraries.

And the ocean applications are hardly there yet, or in climate change
mapping and modeling (just see IPCC for lack of ISO metadata).

Metadata is essential, also for, and with,  R code, phython workflows etc.

Sure, if there is interest, I would be delighted to talk to somebody in
more detail
and how to make it happen. Thanks.

Again, I am thinking here of geology, geography, climate, social sciences,
biological, remote sensing and model prediction data and work etc.
For starters, here is  https://www.itis.gov/  (which we use a lot for our
GIS work with biological species, and with metadata); Those things are to
be catered
in open source GIS works. I have not looked into the Google Cloud and
Amazon Cloud, yet.

Sorry to beat here a dead horse, but for governmental, contractor and
science projects and software, without metadata any GIS work is not
acceptable, nor serious.
So it really matters; I am specifically thinking here of publication
standards for high-impact journals, peer-review and reviewing.

Thanks, happy to provide input and expertise as you require for QGIS.
To me, metadata are an anti-corruption and transparency measure. I assume
the world needs those things these days...

Keep me posted please
   Falk Huettmann PhD, Professor
    University of Alaska Fairbanks


On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> Hi Falk,
> metadata are now in standard qgis, you'll find it in Layer>Properties.
> Please check and let us know. There is room for improvement, please
> consider supporting it.
> Cheers.
>
> On 17/09/19 09:14, Falk Huettmann wrote:
> > Hi there, QGIS community,
> >
> > very sorry,
> > but I am still struggling with xml ISO compliant FGDC metadata in
> > QGIS.
> >
> > I only see the great webpage on MetaEdit;
> > well, except, I cannot find it in the PlugIns and the
> >  website seems to be not supported anymore; no reply upon request.
> >  http://gis-lab.info/qa/metatools-eng.html
> >
> > I would welcome any suggestions here on what to do; big thanks.
> >
> > QGIS, like any GIS and software and data, cannot live without metadata
> > and such an editor.
> > Even more so, that's where Open Source can entirely outcompete
> > and win....I am thinking here for instance of (biological species
> > taxonomy) survey data with GIS data sources all read-in automatically
> > for modeling and predictions; with automated workflows...and then
> > readily documented with XML metadata and parsed and presented in html,
> > for instance.
> >
> > See here a monopoly piece in gitub; how can that be linked with QGIS
> > effectively ?.
> > https://github.com/usgs/fort-pymdwizard/
> >
> > For projects - commercial and science-, compliant ISO metadata can be
> > the deal breaker
> >
> > And I think we should probably not work with 'homebrew' code and rely on
> it.
> >
> > Thanks so much again for any pointers; very best
> >       Falk Huettmann
> >
> >
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