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 GeoCommons Metadata Implementation Screenshots | Off the Map - Official Blog of FortiusOne // Apr 22, 2008 at 14:40
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