Subject: [ESP] fgdc extensions for remote sensing metadata

From: "Pritchard, MJ (Matt) " <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:22:36 -0000

Hi folks,

Following on from Bryan's powerpoints which mention FGDC / CSDGM and DIF,
it's worth noting that there is now also a set of FGDC extensions for remote
sensing metadata, which has now been "endorsed" (which I think is the final
stage).

Specifically, these extensions provide extra sections for "Platform and
Mission information", "Instrument Information" and a number of additions
within the existing sections, such as the new "Aggregation Information" and
"Dataset Identifier" sections within "Identification Information".
See
	http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/csdgm_rs_ex.html
for details.

Back to the original FGDC standard, however. There's the DTD at 
	http://www.fgdc.gov/metadata/fgdc-std-001-1998.dtd
and there has been some work to produce this as a W3C schema, results of
which you can see at
	ftp://ftp.csc.noaa.gov/incoming/rrathmann/metadata/

Matt

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