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

[Carl Reed]

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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