2.  Sponsor Information
 Overview
 Tools Used:
› U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Metadata
Parser
› ArcToolbox – Upgrade Metadata Tool
› University of Idaho – Batch Metadata
Modifier Tool
› USGS Metadata Wizard
 Conclusions

3.  Province of Nova Scotia – Department of
Natural Resources, Mines and
Geoscience Division
 Maintain NovaRoc, NovaScan,
GeoNova
 Bedrock geology maps and data, drill
hole data, mineral occurrences etc.
 http://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/

4.  Mines and Geoscience Division
maintains open data online
 200+ datasets
 Metadata are created in ArcGIS 9.3
 Must be FGDC compliant (Federal
Geographic Data Committee)
 DNR recently upgraded to ArcGIS 10.2

6.  Data about data
 Usually presented as an XML document

7. View of metadata in
ArcCatalog
View of metadata
editor in ArcCatalog

8.  EXtensible Markup Language
› Was designed to describe data
 EXtensible Stylesheet Language
Transformations
› Used to transform XML documents

9.  Given approximately 50 datasets
› Multiple mxds
› Shapefiles
› File gdb with multiple feature classes
› Layer files (.lyr)
› Metadata xml files

10.  ArcCatalog
 USGS Metadata Parser
 ArcToolbox – Upgrade Metadata Tool
 University of Idaho – Batch Metadata
Modifier Tool
 United States Geological Service (USGS)
Metadata Toolbox

11.  Tests compliance to the CSDGM (Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata)
 Can download or use the online version
 ZIP file of output
› HTML error report
 Output XML is formatted
http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/mp.html

12.  ArcGIS Product – found in the conversion
toolbox
 31 errors when run through the Metadata
Parser (MP)
 Does not meet the FGDC Metadata
Standard

14.  Stand alone tool or ArcGIS add-in
 Can edit multiple metadata files at once
 ‘Find and Replace’ Method
 Best for someone who has an in depth
knowledge of the metadata files

16.  Script tool that requires input of
› ESRI shapefiles
› Feature classes (in File and Personal
geodatabases)
› Most raster files (.TIF, .IMG, .BMP, .GIF, .PNG,
.JPG and ESRI GRID)
› Tabular data sets (.dbf, ESRI Info, or ESRI
geodatabase table) OR
› XML files

18.  Extracts existing metadata
 User will then have the ability to edit and
update any information extracted
 Original is written over by the finished
product
 These files are not upgraded in ArcGIS
› There is still a warning to update when
opened

20.  Combines the USGS Metadata Wizard and
the ArcGIS Upgrade Metadata Tool
 Same inputs as the Metadata Wizard
 Produces a mostly FGDC Metadata
Standard compliant XML
 Also compatible with ArcGIS 10.2
 Many errors (from mp), but when translated
with the XSLT it appears to be correct
› Comparing results to the metadata currently
available online

22.  Metadata conversion is not as
straightforward as one might think
 The script tool will produce a upgraded
metadata file with a few errors
 More time
› To learn XML/XSLT
› Update the XSLT

24.  http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2010/06/25/fgdc-metadata-editor-for-arcgis-10/
 http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/01/06/a-new-approach-for-metadata-with-arcgis-
10-part-2/
 http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2011/01/12/a-new-approach-for-metadata-with-arcgis-
10-part-3/
 https://www.fgdc.gov/metadata
 https://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/geospatial-metadata-tools
 http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/mp.html
 http://inside.uidaho.edu/helpdocs/batch_metadata_modifier_tool.html
 https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/50ed7aa4e4b0438b00db080a
 ESRI Virtual Campus – Creating and Editing Metadata
 Inter net GIS by Zhong-Ren Peng & Ming-Hsiang Tsou