Introduction to Geospatial Metadata – FGDC CSDGM National Coastal Data Development Center A division of the National Oceanographic Data Center Please a list of participants at each location to Also questions for the Q&A session to

VALIDATION Creating Standard Metadata

Validate Against Standard Check for valid formats Text, Integer, Date Check for Mandatory Fields Check for Correct Order of Elements Check for valid domains

DTD Validation Defines document structure Which elements are legal Which attributes are legal

Schema Validation emas/metadata/fgdc- std xsd XML Schemas are more powerful than DTDs

Geospatial Metadata Validation Service - USGS Checks Record using mp (metadata parser) Input is metadata record indented text, XML or SGML Includes several re-expressions of the metadata record

Validation of file

Error Messages

Other Expressions of Record Questions and Answershttp://geo- nsdi.er.usgs.gov/validation/phpFaCdbX.faq.ht ml Outlinehttp://geo- nsdi.er.usgs.gov/validation/phpFaCdbX.html Parseable Texthttp://geo- nsdi.er.usgs.gov/validation/phpFaCdbX- new.txt XMLhttp://geo- nsdi.er.usgs.gov/validation/phpFaCdbX- new.xml

In – Tool Validation

Added Logic for Validation

Validation in XML Editors xsd schema files xml record associate validate Schema may be online or offline

XML Editors

Questions?