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for those of you from the academic community - I would urge you to talk to EDINA about the Go-Geo! Geo-portal which is aimed at creating a resource discovery tool for HE/FE based on an extended NGDF metadata profile and which will populate an HE/FE hub to askGiraffe. We are due to start populating the metadata database as of now..... for more background see http://edina.ac.uk/projects/geobrowser.html James S Reid EDINA Geoservices ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee, Edmund" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [FISH] GIS metadata templates > *With apologies for cross-posting* > > Hello all > > For information the Access based tool for compiling metadata descriptions to > national standards that I mentioned in an earlier posting is available via > the askgiraffe site that Christine mentions. Follow the 'Wanted - Your data' > link, then scroll down the page to where it describes the 'askGiraffe > metadata tool' and how to get it. > > I would strongly recommend the NGDF standard to anyone in the UK creating > records of their spatial data information. As well as its use in askGiraffe > it is the standard that has been adopted by the MAGIC project to support > sharing of geographic information between government departments, and it is > based on the Dublin Core metadata standard. DC, among many international > applications, has been adopted as the metadata standard for the UK > governments e-Government projects. > > Edmund Lee > English Heritage Data Services Unit > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Christine Addison [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:48 AM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: Re: GIS metadata templates > > > > > > For anyone using Mapinfo ...... at Northamptonshire Heritage > > we've written a txt file to paste into your Mapinfo table > > which will set the metadata structure to a set of Dublin Core > > derived fields. I attach the txt file (and a quick guide as > > to how to install which was written for Northamptonshire > > Heritage staff). You'll have to edit the Northamptonshire > > specific stuff obviously. I'm currently writing a Noddy > > Guide to metadata for our team. > > During April and May we're also about to set up a system > > whereby Mapinfo tables cannot be created without first > > compiling basic mandatory metadata. If I remember rightly > > the current metadata structure we are using was compiled > > using the standards set out in www.askgiraffe.org.uk and will > > be further developed by Northamptonshire County Council's > > e-government metadata standards working group which meets for > > the first time next week. > > Hope this is helpful. > > Chris > > > > > > > >