mbedward passed on some docs; I worked on a project where they just encoded the information into a simple text file.
There is also an official ISO standard 19115; and geotools has the classes to represent those ideas; but no parser/encoder. The standard can be captured as an XML document; and is used by may "open" services on the web (implementing OGC Catalog). I think you may want to talk your data custodians or suppliers and see what metadata they have; in my experience it is better to write code for the information you have than to try and ask people to conform to some committee's idea of good data hygiene. Jody On 29/01/2011, at 4:08 AM, G.L. wrote: > > Hi Jody, > > Thank you. I'll have to talk about this to my supervisor. The metadata > support might not be important enough to justify the effort. But if I have > to program it, I'd be happy to share my work with everyone. > I can read the DeveloperGuide, don't worry. > I still have a question, though. Is there any standard for the .shp.xml > format? If so, could you help me get information about it, please? I can't > find any. > > G.L > > > > Jody Garnett-2 wrote: >> >> Three is an official shapefile.shp.xml file format to hold this kind of >> information; but nobody ever uses it. GeoTools has limited support for >> reading these files currently; if you would like to review the code and >> extend the facility it would be appreciated. I see you already found the >> "info" data structure we fill in with what information we can find. >> >> Jody >> >> On 28/01/2011, at 2:54 AM, G.L. wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I use Geotools 2.7 and I managed to build the shapefiles I wanted to >>> build. >>> I would like to add some metadata to my files. I'd like to be abble to >>> open >>> an existing shapefile and attach information such as: >>> >>> name - type >>> >>> forecastDateTime - String >>> generatedDate - String >>> notes - String >>> productName - String >>> organisation - String >>> latitudeMin - Int >>> latitudeMax - Int >>> longitudeMin - Int >>> longitudeMax - Int >>> >>> etc. >>> >>> I have found some objects that might be abble to hold some form of >>> information but no way to write it to a file or read it. I haven't found >>> any >>> example about it. Is there any way to do so? Can anyone please help me? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> G.L >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Reading-Writing-metadata-from-to-a-shapefile-tp5966999p5966999.html >>> Sent from the geotools-gt2-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! >>> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better >>> price-free! >>> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires >>> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Geotools-gt2-users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! >> Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better >> price-free! >> Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires >> February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Geotools-gt2-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1803224.n2.nabble.com/Reading-Writing-metadata-from-to-a-shapefile-tp5966999p5970728.html > Sent from the geotools-gt2-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Geotools-gt2-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
