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Metadata Editorial Committee

by Bob Branton — last modified Oct 01, 2009 04:58 PM

The Global Change Master Directory protal enable NeCODP metadata to be treated as a single collection. The metadata editorial committee examines this metadata collection and advises partners on how to improve its quality. Partners are then expected to act on this advice by communicating and working with individual data centers managers and providers. To this end, early efforts were focused on developing a metadata portal with links between partners, data centers and providers. With these links now in place, editorial committee efforts are now focused on improving the citations contained in the metadata. In this folder are elements of a web report showing exactly what is missing from each and every data citation on the portal and then summarizing this by data center, partner and partnership as whole. Hot links to the GCMD and CGDI portals then take partners and providers directly to the trouble spots. The plan is to run the report at least quarterly.

Page Metadata Citation quality control report — by Bob Branton — last modified Mar 25, 2009 10:55 AM
A quality control report of data citations on the GCMD portal. Click partner name to list of data centers and citations for the partner. Citations are linked to the original source portal (e.g. GCMD, CGDI) as well as includes a list of missing elements (e.g. Place). Partners, data center staff and providers click the link to edit the metadata records and provide missing elements. See "HowTo Videos" also in this folder for help. In some cases, missing elements may be found elsewhere in the particualar metadata record (e.g. Citation:DatasetTitle may be copied from EntryTitle). See the "Xwalk between Metadata Standards" page, also in this folder for suggestions on where to find the missing elements. Summary counts of TotalRecords by Portal, MissingCitations, GoodRecords, WithWarningsOnly, WithWarningsAndOrErrors, Errors, Warnings are also given.
Link GCMD's Data Set Citation Writers' Guide — by Bob Branton — last modified Mar 25, 2009 10:55 AM
A direct link to the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Directory Interchange Format (DIF) Writer's Guide page giving detailed instructions on how to prepare a data set citation including: definition, syntax, usage and example.
Page Xwalk between Metadata Standards — by Bob Branton — last modified Mar 25, 2009 10:55 AM
A crosswalks of citation elements between the between various metadata standards including: the GCMD Directory Interchange (DIF), Federal Geospatial Data Committee (FGDC) and International Standards Organization (ISO) standards and Ecological Metadata Language (EML) profiles. The xwalk includes both a primary source as well as a secondary source, should the primary source be blank. Use this documents to understand where citation elements come from.
Folder Simple How to Videos — by Bob Branton — last modified Mar 25, 2009 10:55 AM
Short videos showing use of the quality report to guide updating of GoMODP metadata citations
Folder R Program and data files — by Bob Branton — last modified Mar 25, 2009 10:55 AM
To reproduce the above quality control report, you must install the R programming environment on a personal computer and download all of the files in this folder.
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