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Resources on this page were created For datasets produced by the GIS Lab at Baruch College CUNY for creating and managing geospatial metadata.
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| Oct 2015 | Metadata Entry Checklist | The metadata creator uses this to keep track of data entry of required elements and attributes in the ArcCatalog (initial creation of metadata in ArcGIS format that will be exported to ISO) |
| Oct 2015 | Metadata Verification Checklist | The metadata verifier uses this to keep track of verification of crucial elements and attributes when inspecting newly created records in the ArcCatalog (checking the creator's work) |
| Oct 2015 | verify_isometa.py | A Python 3.x script that checks ISO 19115 / 19139 geospatial metadata records for completeness (reports are generated that indicate whether specified elements and attributes are missing). In our workflow, script is run after metadata has been manually entered and verified, and exported from ArcGIS format to ISO. |
, we create Dublin Core metadata records expressed in XML. Our records use a subset of the DC elements and terms that we have specified as requirements for all metadata we create, and we follow best practices used by the Open Geoportal and GeoBlacklight communities. We follow an in-house data application profile that specifies formats and controlled vocabularies (drawn from ISO 19115 topics, GeoBlacklight, geonames, Dublin Core, and others). We check our records against this profile, validate them against an XML schema, and style them for presentation with a CSS stylesheet. Click on any metadata XML link provided on the download pages for our Datasets for examples. We adopted this standard in spring 2020 and will be converting our old records as we update each dataset.
Visit our GitHub GIS Lab Metadata page for more information and to access our profile, schema, and scripts. There's also an older repository with resources that we previously used for verifying ISO 19139 metadata.
For resources that we purchase or subscribe to (i.e. that we do not create), metadata is provided by that source and comes in various standards and formats.
The creator, Baruch College, and CUNY disclaim any liability for errors, inaccuracies, or omissions that may be contained within these resources and for any damages that may arise from the foregoing. Users should independently verify the accuracy of the materials for their own purposes.