Metadata Maestro Practical (and the new ‘features’ I have found)

Metadata Maestro

• Practical (and the new ‘features’ I have found)

Introduction

• Metadata Editor
• Services
• Updates
• Keywords – NERC Vocab Server
• EDMO Database
• Contacts Database
• EPSG Database
• Projects

Features

• In creating this practical session I have found bugs:

• Metadata editor refresh
• Template file identifier
• Metadata Maestro is supported via MEDIN
• There is a programme in place to ensure that bugs are tracked and fixed
• Please alert me to any problems you have

Metadata Editor

Concepts

• Profile

• Select a profile
• MEDIN Discovery Profile (Datasets and Series)
• MEDIN Discovery Profile (Services)
• Builds a tree of nodes

Concepts

• Nodes

• Reflects ISO 19115 structure
• Reflects profile names
• Indicates obligation of elements

Red Bar / Green Bar

• On the fly metadata validation

Templates

• Create templates for re-use
• *.szz file
• Some idiosyncrasies (bugs)
• File identifier
• Identification information

Templates

File Identifier

• System generated UUID:

• Automatically changes for new metadata
• Can be saved to a template
• CARE – if this is done the same file identifier can be used for all metadata instances based on the template
• Delete the file identifier before saving the template
• This forces the file identifier to be re-created when the template is loaded

UUID Creator

• Tools > UUID Creator

KML

• Save metadata as OGC KML

• http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2
• Elements mapped:
• Resource title -> Placemark name
• Abstract -> Placemark description
• ISO 19139 XML -> ExtendedData
• Geographic bounding box -> Placemark Polygon

Services

Updates

• Local cache:

• EPSG Geodetic Parameter (?)
• EDMO Database – contacts
• NERC Vocab Server – keywords

• Online:

• GEMET Thesaurus

Updates

• Updates can be:

• Automatic at startup
• Invoked manually (Tools > Refresh Cached Lists)
• Folder:
• [user profile]\Local Settings\Application Data\SeaZone\Metadata Maestro Data

Keywords

• NERC Data Grid Vocabulary Server

• Different ways of selecting keywords
• Search for *water*

Keyword – Anchor encoding

• Care – manually editing keyword lists will not be encoded using the Anchor element

Contacts

• EDMO Database

Contacts Database

• Local contacts database

EPSG Database

• Search for geodetic parameters

Project

Save Project

• Metadata Maestro Project

• Saves the state of most open forms
• Produces *.szmp file

Kataloq: marine data standards -> medin approved standards -> documents
documents -> SeaZone Metadata Maestro Ben Spalding