Export MDweb ArcGIS extension for automatization and importing of metadata into MDweb Desertification unit -IRD

Goal ¾ Creating a metadata record from ArcGIS, filled in semi-automatically, conforming to a template and able to be imported into MDweb.

ArcGis SIEL

MDweb

XML file Exporting metadata

Importing metadata Two independent tools

Entering metadata that is common for all the data Examples: language, character set, overall theme of the resource

Forms with predefined values Metadata included automatically with metadata of each geographical object

Entering metadata that is specific to each observatory Examples: Observatory name, address

Form to be filled in once and for all Metadata included automatically with metadata of each geographical object

Entering metadata specific to each geographical object Examples: summary, keywords

Managing the editing or exporting of metadata of each object in a geodatabase

Creating/updating ‘automatizable’ metadata Examples: geographic extent, coordinate system, record creation date

Exporting the metadata record: conformity with this object’s template

Associating the dataset with the metadata record

Updating the templates of each object

Displaying a geographic object’s metadata on the screen

Numerical table

Raster

Vector

Geodatabase

Forms

Georeferenced objects

filled in A template’s DTD

Metadata common to all data

Creating metadata automatically

Updating

Editing

once and for all

EXPORT MDWeb ArcCatalog

Metadata predefined by the observatories

Importing Metadata specific to each data Data (zip archive)

Quick look (jpg)

Metadata record (xml)