dear nicholas, all, On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:13:28AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=26020&ICS1=35&ICS2=240&ICS3=70 > > Particularly "the cataloguing of datasets" > Has anyone read this? Is it useful?
I've never read the ISO19115 core document, unwilling to pay for it ;) The most copious profile I've read of it is the North American Profile, a common US/Canada draft effort to replace the FGDC standard. http://frot.org/terradue/minimal_metadata.html were some long notes i made at that time. It's overdesigned for many use cases, and doesn't account well for current or near-future online distribution mechanisms. But it has a lot of instituional buy-in, at least in theory. GeoNetwork takes the only sensible approach which is "support many profiles, many protocols, and see what shakes out" (at least that is my impression of it :) ) I have - literally - several five-foot-long scrolls of further commentary on this subject matter, and when they're publishable will start dropping more on the near-empty blog started just to spam the osgeo community about it :) http://metadatamadness.wordpress.com/ cheers, jo _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
