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Discovery Access Understanding Levels of Metadata joy of Metadata Metadata Standards Why standards Which standards for geospatial data Generalized content “Common Core"

D ISCOVERY VS. A CCESS VS. U NDERSTANDING Cannot search on content if it is not documented. Cannot access data if links and access instructions are not included. Cannot understand content if attributes, definitions, domains, units, etc. are not included!

“L EVELS ” OF M ETADATA Level of MetadataMetadata “Author” No Metadata  Shame on You! “Discovery” LevelSME, Portal Developer, Data Manager “Access” LevelPortal Developer, Data Manager “Understanding “LevelSME, Portal Developer, Data Manager

C ONTENT O RGANIZATION - S TANDARDS Metadata - Documentation of geospatial data written in a consistent manner Standards organize content consistently Often defined in policy

E STABLISHING THE STANDARD Why have a standard? Standards ensure consistency. The standard for metadata ensures a level of consistency in data documentation

FGDC STANDARDS

FGDC A UTHORED S TANDARDS FGDC-STD Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) FGDC-STD Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) Part 1: Biological Data Profile (Bio) FGDC-STD Shoreline Metadata Profile of the Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata (Shoreline) FGDC-STD Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata (RSE)

I NTERNATIONAL S TANDARDS - FGDC E NDORSED S TANDARDS ISO 19110:2005 Geographic information - Methodology for Feature Cataloguing ISO 19111:2007 Geographic information – Spatial referencing by coordinates ISO 19115:2003 Geographic information – Metadata ISO Geographic information – Metadata ISO :2009 Geographic information – Metadata – Part 2: Extensions for imagery and gridded data ISO 19119:2005 Geographic information – Services ISO 19139:2007 Geographic information – Metadata – XML schema implementation INCITS Information technology – North American Profile of ISO 19115:2004 – Geographic information – Metadata (NAP – Metadata)

Standard X Standard Y Standard Z Shared Core Content

Project Open Data Required Title Description Tags Last Update Publisher Contact Name Contact Unique Identifier Public Access Level Open Data Policy

Project Open Data Required if Applicable Bureau Code Program Code Access Level Data Dictionary Download URL Endpoint Format License Spatial Open Data Policy Temporal

Project Open Data Expanded Fields Release Date Frequency Language Data Quality Category Related Documents Homepage URL System of Records Open Data Policy

D ISCOVERY How would you like to search for your records? What content needs included in your records to enable discovery?

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