Ted, The wiki looks like a great resource! Thanks for sharing the link. I'll read over the material on the wiki page.
I wonder if it would be practical to set-up a mailing list for ISO 19115 discussions? Could we use the OSGeo Standards mailing list for this purpose? Landon Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268 Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658 -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Ted Habermann Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 8:08 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: Lynda Wayne; Kenneth Mcdonald; Lewis Mcculloch; Newell,Oliver Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] ISO 19115 Landon et al., I agree completely that there is a critical need for information on the ISO standards and that that information is unlikely to emerge from ISO in the same way that it emerged from the FGDC. A couple of things that might be helpful: 1. Examples NGDC has a web accessible folder with roughly 1000 ISO records in four groups at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NESDIS_Products/1list. html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NGDC/1list.html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NOSA/1list.html http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/19115/NCDC_RSE/1list.html These records were created from FGDC content (with remote sensing extensions) that is available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/published/. At present I think they provide a fairly good picture of what ISO content can be created from FGDC records, although they are still being improved as my understanding of ISO improves... We are currently working on migrating both versions of these records into a GeoNetwork instance at NGDC. 2. ISO Experience / Tutorials The international ISO 191* community is growing and gaining momentum. I think that a wiki is a good tool for taking advantage of that community for creating and sharing ISO experience. Right now I have ISO content on two wikis (both of these have self-signed certificates so you need to make a security exception in FireFox): The NGDC ISO wiki is at https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/wiki/index.php?title=ISO_Metadata_Standard. The top part of this page is an attempt to organize the information around metadata needs expressed as (somewhat rhetorical) questions. The pages that present the answers to those questions are places for explanations of the standards and XML examples. The second section of this page is aimed at presenting the same sort of information organized around the structure of the ISO standard. It is probably behind the first section in terms of time I have been able to spend... Some groups in NOAA are experimenting with a wiki as a place for Data Management Guidance and Best Practices. This wiki is at https://www.nosc.noaa.gov/dmc/swg/wiki/index.php. It needs some reorganization, but there is some similar metadata content on the page: https://www.nosc.noaa.gov/dmc/swg/wiki/index.php?title=Metadata_Opportun ities_and_Use_Cases One of my goals is to migrate the content from the NGDC wiki to this one and to focus future activity here. 3. FGDC Document The FGDC is producing a tutorial that focuses on the North American Profile. I believe that Lynda Wayne at FGDC is leading that effort. I think the plan is that the document will be available when NAP is approved... Hope that helps, Ted Landon Blake wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good English language tutorial or article on > the metadata standard formalized as ISO 19115? I'm particularly > interested in how if relates to the former FGDC metadata standard used > in the United States, and the differences between the two standards. > > The FGDC metadata standard had some great documentation and tutorials. > I've found far less supplemental material for ISO 19115, but maybe I'm > not looking in the correct place. I worry this type of documentation > might not materialize since we are dealing with an ISO spec. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Landon > > > > *Warning: > *Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against > defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader > is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is > strictly prohibited. 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