The US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) ISO TC Harmonization Activities “Moving From a National Metadata Standard to an International Standard” By:Rick Pearsall FGDC Metadata Coordinator ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop March 7, 2001

ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop2 US Presidential Executive Order Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure” (NSDI) April 1994 (b) Standardized Documentation of Data...., each agency shall document all new geospatial data it collects or produces, either directly or indirectly, using the standard under development by the FGDC, and make that standardized documentation electronically accessible to the Clearinghouse network

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop3 History of the FGDC Metadata Standard u April 1994 – Version 1 S Provided a basic framework for metadata S Significant “shareware” metadata tool development S Provided to ISO TC211 u June 1998 – Version 2 S Incorporated Version 1 “lessons learned” S Incorporated concept of Profiles  1 endorsed profile, 2 under development S Incorporated concept of Extensions S Provided “tags/short names”

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop4

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March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop6 How Does FGDC Participate in ISO TC211? u Via EO12906, FGDC given responsibility for NSDI Standards Development u FGDC member of American National Standards Institute GIS Subgroup u ANSI member of ISO TC211

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop7 Why worry the ISO Metadata Standard? u Office of Management & Budget Circular A-119 S Directs preference in use of International Standards u Global environment - Global Spatial Data Infrastructure u NAFTA and WTO

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop8 FGDC Preliminary Plans for the ISO Metadata Standard? u Adopt the ISO Metadata Standard as Profile(s) T US/FGDC “Profile” development Spring 2001 using ISO Draft International Metadata Standard  1 – Legacy Metadata, 2- New Metadata S Provide tools to migrate FGDC Metadata Records to be ISO Compliant S Develop Education/Training materials S Summer/Fall 2001 – Have Profile, Software, and Training ready u Will replace CSDGM Version 2

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop9 ISO Metadata & FGDC CSDGM V2 u ISO/FGDC Metadata Standard Differences T ISO more elements than FGDC Many more “Optional” elements Addresses many known deficiencies in FGDC T Differences in presentation (UML vs Yourdon) and encoding (XML vs SGML) T Differences in Terminology, Element Name, and Obligation u FGDC Metadata Records are not “yet” ISO compliant

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop10 FGDC Registered Reviews “ Gaining US Support for 19115” u CD1 July – August 1998 T 250 Respondents, 500 Comments u CD2 December January 2000 T 150 respondents, 700+ Comments u CD3 June - August 2000 T 125 respondents, 400 Comments u Comment adjudication T Multi-organizational, multi-disciplinary panel

March 7, 2001 ISO TC211 Standards in Action Workshop11 FGDC Cooperative Agreement Program  2000 T Category 1 – Don’t Duck Metadata T Category 2 – FGDC/ISO Metadata Record Conversion Software Investigating XSLT (XML-to-XML) T Category 3 – ISO Metadata Training material development  2001 T Category 1 – Metadata Collection T Category 2 – Metadata Training Program