Don't know if this can help, but here: http://www.jornadasgvsig.gva.es/fileadmin/conselleria/Documentacion/3asJornadas/sesiones/sesion4/Gestion_metadatos_en_gvSIG.pdf
You can find the paper of "Semiautomatic extraction and management of metadata in gvSIG" presented during latest gvSIG conference. Bye Luca On Dec 12, 2007 10:30 PM, Patton, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dylan: > >Sorry for the off-topic post. I am part of an "ISO Metadata Editor Review" > >committee over here, and was looking for some initial feedback on what > >various parties in the FOSS world use for metadata authoring, etc. There are > >some members of the group who are looking to building an extension to the > >BibTeX standard as a way of keeping the entire process in a text format, > >and "integrateable" into standard document preparation techniques. > > Metadata is a very big deal in our shop; there's been a big push in the last > 3-4 years to get all of our legacy data online and documented. Pretty > much every bathymetry raster dataset we collect is destined for an ArcIMS > public web portal, and so has to have FGDC-compliant metadata accompanying it. > > We use ArcGIS' ArcCatalog to write our metadata. I've been casting about for > a FOSS metadata authoring tool, with not much luck. The USGS has > a couple tools called xtme/tkme which are used for metadata authoring. I tried > installing them once, but never really had a lot of success with it. > > I'd be really interested in some kind of metadata scripting tool that uses > LaTeX/BibTeX. Are they intending to write a new document class to integrate > into LaTeX? > > Metadata authoring is pretty much the only reason I need to use ArcGIS right > now. > If a free, open source alternative became available that was usable in a > GRASS scripting > environment, that would be great! > > Dylan: > >Any thoughts, suggestions, or stories would be appreciated. We are hoping to > >make a big impact on the formation of several federal (US) metadata authoring > >policies- with emphasis on open source software. > > Good luck, and please keep the list updated on events. I'm definitely > interested. > > Cheers, > > ~ Eric. > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > grass-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user