Geodata Metadata Requirements

Extents 
Projection
Taxonomy/Ontology
Ownership

References

• http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/metadata/base-metadata/index_html

• http://dcs.dlese.org/preview/admin/view.do?id=TEST-000-000-000-008

Notes

metadata isn't an easy task. The balance between completeness and people simply ignoring to generate it...

I wish I had had a prexisting plan of how to index and search for the data sets on extent and 'type' that we were adding

See Also

• Geodata Discovery Working Group
• Geodata Repository