I want to draw attention to a post by Sean Gorman on the GeoCommons blog outlining a proposal for a lightweight metadata schema for geospatial data. I have long felt that the FGDC and ISO standards sacrificed a lot in the way of flexibility and agility in exchange for completeness. The emphasis on data quality is well placed, but as Sean points out, the specs are way too unwieldy for web use.
Read Sean’s original post here
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1 Sean Gorman // Apr 11, 2008 at 16:29
Thanks for the shout out. We got some great feedback on the proposed implementation and look forward to see what folks think when we launch the application. Hopefully it will provide a good chunk of data for GIS users from the GeoWeb and GeoWeb users from the GIS world.
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