Difference between revisions of "Geodata Metadata Requirements"

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* Completeness / accuracy
 
* Completeness / accuracy
 
* Rate of change  
 
* Rate of change  
* Time of origin
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* Publication date
* File format
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* Time period (date or date range) that applies to the data
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* Distribution sources
 
* Distribution sources
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** format
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** URL
 
* Title
 
* Title
 
* Text description
 
* Text description

Revision as of 10:40, 8 April 2006


Metadata about the physical description contained in the data

  • Extents
  • Projection
  • Raster Specific metadata
  • Vector Specific metadata

Metadata about what the data is describing

  • Taxonomy/Ontology

Metadata about the data collection

  • Ownership
  • Completeness / accuracy
  • Rate of change
  • Publication date
  • Time period (date or date range) that applies to the data
  • Distribution sources
    • format
    • URL
  • Title
  • Text description
  • Ownership/provenance
  • License

References

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