USGS Metadata Wizard - A Python toolbox in Esri ArcGIS Desktop for creating FGDC-CSDGM metadata for geospatial data.

The MetadataWizard is a useful tool designed to facilitate FGDC-CSDGM metadata creation for spatial and non-spatial data. For a list of tools for the ISO metadata standard, refer to the FGDC ISO Metadata Editor Review. For a wider selection of tools see the FGDC Metadata Tools. The following free tools create or edit FGDC CSDGM metadata in XML. Also, check out the Metadata for Research Data and Structuring and Documenting a USGS Public Data Release training modules on the Data Management Website's Training page. USGS Barnegat Bay hydrodynamic model for March-September 2012 įor more information about metadata as it pertains to the USGS data release process, visit Metadata for Scientific Data FAQs. Please note that it may contain only certain sections of the ISO standard.

Aerial Photography describing this image Īn example of a metadata record in ISO 19115-2.

Systems Level Applications or Collections.

Biological data with taxonomy (Biological Data Profile).

View the metadata record in its native XML code or with a stylesheet applied to be easier to read.

Learn more about XML for Advanced Users.Įxamples of metadata records in FGDC-CSDGM for different types of information products.

There is an ongoing effort to move towards adopting the ISO metadata standard.īoth FGDC-CSDGM and ISO require metadata to be formatted in Extensible Markup Language (.xml) although a stylesheet can be applied over the XML to make it easier to read.

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) series of standards (19115, 19115-2, 19139, etc.).

Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) or its extensions for biological data (Biological Data Profile) and shoreline data.

Use the Metadata Questionnaire or Metadata in Plain Language to gather content for building a metadata record or use metadata creation tools which will ask you the same questions about your data.įederal agencies are mandated by Executive Order 12906 to use metadata standards endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) below:.

title, abstract, methods, keywords, etc.). Understand what goes into a metadata record (e.g.

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