[OSGeo-Standards] Re: Metadata Standards and ISO 19139

[Carl Reed]

True, but we (OGC) are now actively working this issue. Too many complaints. 
Stay tuned.

Regards

Carl

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Doyle" <afdoyle at MIT.EDU>
To: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Re: Metadata Standards and ISO 19139


> On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>
>> Scott Schwab wrote:
>>> The corporation I work for has had a few contracts with the US 
>>> government, and over the last couple of years these customers have  been 
>>> asking for ISO19115/19139 metadata, replacing the request for  FGDC. 
>>> The code to generate the ISO 19139 documents is more  complicated and 
>>> the generated output is much more verbose, compared  to FGDC.  The ISO 
>>> output is large enough that you really need a  tool like CatMDEdit to qc 
>>> the output.
>>> I have wondered if the customers are just saying they want the ISO 
>>> 19115 format, not because of a need but just because an  international 
>>> standard sounds better in contract negotiations,
>>> And just for a bit of clarification, the ISO 19115 is an  international 
>>> standard (140 pages), but it does not specify what  the XML tags should 
>>> really look like.  To produce XML, you need the  ISO 19139 technical 
>>> specification (112 pages). To my knowledge  neither document is free.
>>> S
>>
>> Remember that the "O" in OGC stands for Open[1]. Whatever ISO  standard 
>> is part of an OGC standard means that relevant information  is available 
>> royalty free on OGC websites (as it is stated in the  OGC bylaws). For 
>> example here: http://schemas.opengis.net/iso/19139/
>>
>> This is one of reasons that they put up with the oftentimes onerous  task 
>> of running specs through TC 211. Thanks OGC folks.
>>
>
> This is not entirely true. Take a look at 
> http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/as and see "Topic 1 - Feature 
> Geometry" (it says to go ISO). Also  "Topic 11 - Metadata" (clicking on it 
> brings you to ISO).
>
>
> Allan
>
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