Geodata Metadata Requirements

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

• 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

• http://edcnts11.cr.usgs.gov/metalite/help/fgdc.html

• http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Aboutus/standards/fgdc_to_dif.html

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