The USGIN Metadata Wizard is a metadata-format agnostic metadata creation web-tool that exports its generic, minimum metadata model into various metadata formats and standards such FGDC XML, and ISO 19139 XML files. The goal of the tool is to make new metadata creation as simple as possible while still supporting several metadata standards. Give it a try at http://mw.usgin.org
USGIN Metadata Wizard Flowchart:
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a three-year 18-million dollar grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to the Association of American State Geologists (AASG). Eighty-five percent of the funds are slated for the 46 participating states for compiling, digitizing, and documenting data for populating the National Geothermal Data System (NGDS).
The USGIN Catalog and Data Services website (http://catalog.usgin.org) hosts several geospatial metadata catalog (CSW) and geospatial data services (WMS, WFS, WCS) implementations and clients. Although the site functions as a showcase of USGIN service implementations, the Catalog Service for the Web service (CSW - http://catalog.usgin.org/geonetwork/srv/en/csw) is a primary metadata node for the U.S. Geospatial Information Network.
Available services and clients at this time:
The USGIN Document Repository is an effort to create a document archiving, management, and discovery system that fulfills minimum USGIN ISO 19139 metadata requirements. The Drupal CMS based site is under active development and has the following goals and requirements:
USGIN metadata can now be searched through ESRI's GEO Portal (http://geoss.esri.com) and GEOSS GEO Viewer (http://geoss.esri.com/geoviewer) portals. On the search tab or window select "US GIN" under "Search In" to look for USGIN specific resources.
This is still a work in progress and many kinks have to be worked out. However, we are excited about our ESRI partners' contributions.
The Distributed Energy journal has posted an news entry on the National Geothermal Data System project: "State Geological Surveys to Play Key Role in Geothermal Energy Search"
We are excited to report that on Oct. 30, 2009 Energy Secretary Stephen Chu
announced
that a coalition of 40 state geological surveys headed up by the
Arizona Geological Survey has been selected to populate the new
National Geothermal Data System with relevant state-specific geothermal
data by deploying the Geoscience Information Network nationwide.
The Secretary announced
awards totaling
$338 million for geothermal energy across the country. The AZGS-led
project (section 5 in the list) will negotiate to receive $15.7 million over 3 years. AZGS is acting on
behalf of the Association of American State Geologists (AASG -
www.stategeologists.org).
AZGS
is already a partner in the Geothermal Data Coalition, based at Boise
State University to design and build the National Geothermal Data
System under contract to DOE. AZGS will adapt the Geoscience
Information Network (GIN - www.usgin.org) to provide data discovery,
access, and exchange services as a component in the developing data
system. Other components include a data repository, software
applications, vocabularies, data content, network communications, and
web portals.
GIN is a collaboration between AASG and the U.S. Geological Survey to integrate geological survey data bases using web services and open source standards in a distributed system. The service architecture being developed by the USGIN project will be the foundation for the data system.
EPA Ireland started testing online metadata editor related to INSPIRE
compliancy. You can find it link below
http://maps.epa.ie/metadataeditormain
If you have any comment, let them know for the finalization of the
tool.
Ozan EMEM, PhD
Office of Environmental Assessment
Environmental Protection Agency
PO Box 3000
Johnstown Castle Estate
Wexford
Phone: 053 9160669
Fax: 053 9124969
Thu Sep 17 08:39:08 CDT 2009.
The Metadata Transform Working Group (made of members from the FGDC Metadata Working Group, NOAA’s National Ocean Survey, National Geophysical Data Center, and National Ocean Data Center; the U.S. Geological Survey; and various other organizations) has been collaboratively building transforms for the transition of metadata among standards. As the development of these transforms and libraries for translation of content is a collaborative effort, any questions or comments can be sent to ncddcmetadata at noaa.gov to be passed along to the working group.
Get Files at http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/metadataresource/metadataandxml/files/
USGIN has joined Infrastructura de Dades Expaciales de Catalunya (IDEC) in developing the opensource CSW client CatalogConnector.
(09/28/2009, http://www.geoportal-idec.net/geoportal/cas/noticies.jsp)
To expand on the article, USGIN is contributing to the CatalogConnector in hopes of making the software more user friendly and efficient. As such, USGIN has already contributed code to improve front end user capabilities and optimizations to improve http response speed. If you have any requests or suggestions in regard to the CatalogConnector, please drop us a line.
