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

[Scott Schwab]

Just to clarify my original statement about ISO19115/ISO19139 not being
free.  The schemas are free and public available, as others have stated.
The non-free items were not the specification/schema, but the reference
documentation, text and diagrams that help in understanding the
specifications fields.  In my case the company ordered them an ISO
specification clearinghouse.  Documentation for the OGC specifications,
which the ISO uses, are available at the OGC website.

Sorry for any confusion.

Scott



On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Carl Reed <creed at opengeospatial.org>wrote:

> 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" <
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> 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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