FGDC Metadata
Working Group Update
July 2008
Agenda
NAP Status
InCIT – L1: friend of the committee
NAP as CSDGM vers. 3.0
Transition Resources
ISO 19115 Metadata Editor Review
NSDI Training Materials Guidance
NSDI CAP
2008 Category 1 Awards
2009 Update
Future events
News from the Field
NAP Status
The North American Metadata Profile V1.2
has been approved by INCITS L1 for
processing as an American National
Standard.
The current round of review- ANSI
sponsored review:
The NAP project proposal has been approved by the
INCITS Executive Board.
Internal, INCITS, review processes, 30 days.
At this point there is no further action for L1 or the NAP
Working Group.
NAP Status
FGDC will host the NAP
documents and comment
templates for the review.
Comments received during the
review will be adjudicated in
coordination with the Canadian
NAP Work Group.
NAP Status
ANSI Review of Proposal – 30 Calendar Days
ANSI Public Review of Standards Document - 45
calendar days.
Press Release
Mid-August to end of September.
The public review is announced in ANSI’s, public
access website, Standards Action.
Review materials on FGDC Website.
INCITS various actions - 11 business days +
37 calendar days.
NAP Feature Catalog
At stage four (enquiry) of a six
stage process for ISO standards.
Revision or amendment of 1SO
19110 could stopped at this stage.
Recommend the editing team start
developing a companion
document for NAP
InCITS –L1
Friends of the Committee-
New membership category.
Possible benefits:
Draft proposed American National Standards
(dpANS) to them at no charge
Notice of new work same time it is submitted
to ANSI for Standards Action
Access to public information- see in notes.
http://www.incits.org/archive/2007/in071376/in071376.pdf, slide 9
NAP as CSDGM 3.0
CSDGM is the NSDI community
standard
ISO 19115 NAP built upon CSDGM
Updated to support new:
applications, e.g. web services
topologies, e.g. object orientation
data characteristics, e.g. vertical extent
technologies, e.g. xml
NAP as CSDGM 3.0
NSDI resources will be aimed at transition
from CSDGM 2.0 including:
guidance documents
translation software
training
funding / CAP
Transition Resources
Update to Graphic Representation
(the “Stitt” diagram)
Format based upon ISO 19139
(xml) vs. 19115 (uml)
Reviewers needed
5.3
Identification
Information
5.3.1 OR 5.3.2
Data Identification Service Identification
citation (see 5.14)
abstract
purpose
credit (repeatable)
status (repeatable)
point of contact (see 5.16, repeatable)
spatial representation type service type Contains Operation
(repeatable) (repeatable)
service type version operation name
spatial resolution
(repeatable) (repeatable)
DCP (repeatable)
equivalent scale access properties
denominator (see 5.11.4)
operational description
extent
or (see 5.13, repeatable) invocation name
distance
coupling type
connect point
(see 5.20, repeatable)
language coupled resource
(repeatable) (repeatable) depends on
(see 5.3.9, repeatable)
character set identifier
(repeatable) parameters
operation name
name
topic category
(repeatable)
Operates On direction
(see 5.3.1, repeatable)
environment description description
optionality
extent
Transition Resources
Updated Implementation Guidance
what’s different and why
transition strategies
incorporating entities/attributes
best practices
Reviewers Needed
ISO 19115 Editor Review
Complete for
ESRI ArcCatalog
GeoNetwork
IME
M3CAT
MetaD
MetaGenie
Parc Canada Metadata Editor
ISO 19115 Editor Review
Feature Review complete for:
terraCatalog
CATMDEdit
user reviews in progress
Web presentation in progress
Download (xls) from:
http://www.fgdc.gov/participation/working-groups-subcommittees/mwg/isoreview/
NSDI Training Materials
Guidance Document
Intended for those developing
NSDI-related training materials
review/extension of existing NSDI training
materials
use of learning objectives
content outline
material review and input available
NSDI CAP 2008 Category 1
George Mason University – Phil Yang
Innovate! – Jessica Zichichi and
Caroline Roberts
Arizona State U.- Merriam Powell
Research Center- Paul Heinrich
Sonoma Ecological Research Center-
Pat Stiefer and Deanne DiPietro
(http://www.fgdc.gov/grants/2008CAP/2008CAPlist,
then click on link under title for each projects .ppt0
NSDI CAP- 2009 update
Metadata nominated as category
again.
New categories may appear.
Solicitation date: Fall 2008
Future events
ESRI IUC – San Diego
NSGIC- Keystone
URISA International - New
Orleans
News from the field
See summary in Notepage view.