Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO WAGIC Presentation August 20, 2015 Creating and Exporting Metadata for Harvest
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO Overall Process & Goal Web Accessible Folder (WAF) State agencies Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Washington State Geospatial Clearinghouse UW Harvests XML files from agency WAFs National States Geographic Information Council Consolidation of national metadata Provide access to standardized, searchable ISO metadata Geospatial One Stop Final destination for XML files Process minimizes duplication and provides most up-to- date versions available
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO Procedure Summary Establish WAF Provide WAF URL to OCIO (1x) 1. Initial Setup FGDC- CSDGM Format* Validated 2. Create Data & Metadata XML File Copy to Agency WAF 3. Export & Copy Metadata
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO Individual Steps 1. Create Geospatial Data By Geospatial Data Creator FGDC- CSDGM Format ISO Classification Descriptive Title 2. Create/Edit Metadata XML File 3. Export Metadata USGS Geospatial Metadata Validation Service 4. Validate Metadata Errors? Fix & Repeat Steps 2- 4 Refer to FGDC Error Codes 5. Correct Errors 6. Copy Final XML File to WAF 7. Update as Necessary
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO 1. Create Geospatial Data
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO By Geospatial Data Creator FGDC- CSDGM Format ISO Classification Descriptive Title 2. Create/Edit Metadata
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO Link to Data Within Metadata
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO XML File 3. Export Metadata
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO USGS Geospatial Metadata Validation Service 4. Validate Metadata
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO Errors? Fix & Repeat Steps 2- 4 Refer to FGDC Error Codes 5. Correct Errors
Geospatial Program Office Office of the CIO 6. Copy Final XML File to WAF
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