[OSGeo-Standards] Re: Metadata Standards and ISO 19139
Carl Reed
creed at opengeospatial.org
Mon Nov 23 13:34:23 EST 2009
Just an item that might be of interest:
The following is the agenda for the OGC Metadata Domain Working Group
meeting in Mountain View in early December.
Status of the Revision of ISO 19115, Dave Danko - ESRI
Canadian Federal Government Standard for GeoSpatial Data, Brian McLeod -
NRCan
WMO Core Metadata Profile of ISO 19115, the WMO Information System (WIS),
and global Discovery Access and Retrieval catalogues, Chris Little - UK Met
Office/WMO
Coverages and ISO Metadata,Ted Habermann - NOAA
Linking Service, collections & dataset metadata in practice, Frédéric
Houbie - ERDAS
If anyone is interested, I can ask that these presentations be publicly
posted on OGCNetwork.
Regards
Carl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arnulf Christl" <arnulf.christl at wheregroup.com>
To: <standards at lists.osgeo.org>
Cc: "Scott Schwab" <scott.schwab at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Standards] Re: Metadata Standards and ISO 19139
> 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.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] which are remnants of the Open Source background of OGC which they
> take very serious.
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