1. Introduction to Geospatial Metadata – FGDC CSDGM National Coastal Data Development Center A division of the National Oceanographic Data Center Please email a list of participants at each location to ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov Also Email questions for the Q&A session to ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov

2. VALIDATION Creating Standard Metadata

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

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

5. Schema Validation http://www.fgdc.gov/sch emas/metadata/fgdc- std-001-1998.xsd XML Schemas are more powerful than DTDs

6. 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

7. Validation of file

8. Error Messages

9. 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

10. In – Tool Validation

12. Added Logic for Validation

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

14. XML Editors

15. NCDDCMETADATA@NOAA.GOV Questions?