For datasets produced by the GIS Lab at Baruch College, 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 our 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.
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