1. Minimum Requirement FGDC Metadata Builder Tool
Karen Like
Indiana Geological Survey
Cele Morris
Northwest Indiana Center for Data & Analysis
Prem Radhakrishnan
Indiana Geological Survey
Programmer

2. What is Metadata?

3. Purpose for Compiling Metadata
Data Documentation
Data Browsing
Data Transfer
NO you need metadata before you can use the data. Even if you are the creator or collector of the data you would like to know key pieces of information. Without truly understanding why you need this information you will eventually find out, the hard way.
Peanut allergy and you are innocently eating popcorn or french fries from a restaurant. How about plain M&Ms.
Why aren’t my data points in the right place. Oh maybe because my state outline came from a world map or it is in a different projection.
Hey look I found more data to use. Never mind it looks like they got this data from us and it is duplicate information.
How did they get our data without us knowing about it. It wasn’t meant to be used at that scale, plus didn’t we update that last year.

4. Data Documentation Inventory of one’s own work
Preservation of information
Undocumented data loses value
Definition

5. Data Browsing
To support search and advertising of a data set based on its extended properties
To provide end-users of data sets with adequate information for proper use

6. Data Transfer Who should I contact to get a copy of this data set
Does it have a cost
Will the data expire, is it the latest issue, when will it be updated
Format of the data

7. In the Beginning Minimum Requirement Metadata Builder Tool
IGS at the forefront in the State on metadata development.
Cele Morris creating metadata for the NW region.
Minimum Requirement Metadata Builder Tool

8. Meeting the Needs of the NW Indiana GIS Forum
Cele

9. What’s Already Available
Attached to GIS Software
ArcCatalog
Stand Alone Products
SMMS – $$
TKME – free download
Corpsmet95 – 95!

10. Why Another Tool Indiana Specific Features Open Source Development
Sharing of Data

11. FGDC Content Standard Tier One 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Metadata Legend
Identification
Information
Data
Quality
Information
Spatial
Data
Organization
Information
Spatial
Reference
Information
Entity
and
Attribute
Information
Distribution
Information
Metadata
Reference
Information
Legend
Tier One
Mandatory
Mandatory If
Applicable

12. Indiana Profile
Tier Two

13. Indiana Profile

14. When do I work on my metadata?

15. Why Standardize?

16. Why Standardize?
Remember the FGDC CSDGM is a standard but it still does not tell you what to write. The quality of the content that is entered into all the fields gives value to your metadata. GIGO

17. Why Standardize? Metadata are notes to re-create the data set
Ask YOURSELF questions
Question someone else’s data

18. ArcCatalog

19. IGS Metadata Builder
Section 1

20. IGS Metadata Builder
Section 7

21. IGS Metadata Builder
Section 10

22. IGS Metadata Builder
Section 8

23. What is this?
The bright red fingers of the Rio Tinto, an acidic river in southwest Spain, are seen in this aerial photograph. NASA scientists have made use of this uninviting landscape in the Mars Analog Rio Tinto Experiment (MARTE) to develop drilling and sample handling technologies that may be used in future explorations of Mars. Field researchers have already found that the Rio Tinto is full of extremeophile microbes that can thrive in the harsh iron- and sulfur-laden waters that are hostile to many organisms.
Spain's Rio Tinto is characterized by deep red water that is highly acidic (pH 1.7—2.5) and rich in heavy metals.
The Rio Tinto holds a significant role in history as the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age.

24. Bounding Coordinate Tool
FGDC standard uses decimal degrees.

25. Bounding Coordinate Tool

26. Bounding Coordinate Tool

27. Keyword Tool

28. Keyword Tool

29. Keyword Tool
Freedom to add others, but it makes a organization standard for clean queries.

30. Keyword Tool

31. Keyword Tool

32. Output

33. Pros -- Cons Pros – Cons Submit a stylesheet Submit coordinates
Submit keyword lists
Open Source – Google Code Page
Cons
Work in one stand alone session
Not all the sections

36. Let’s Share Our Data