working with metadata in arcgis
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Working with Metadata in ArcGIS. Aleta Vienneau. Working with metadata in ArcGIS. ArcGIS metadata goals Editing metadata Setting your metadata style Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x Importing and exporting metadata Updates in 10.2.1 (& 10.2.2) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Working with Metadata in ArcGISAleta Vienneau
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Working with metadata in ArcGIS
• ArcGIS metadata goals
• Editing metadata
• Setting your metadata style
• Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x
• Importing and exporting metadata
• Updates in 10.2.1 (& 10.2.2)
• What’s coming with ArcGIS Pro
• Tips and tricks
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ArcGIS for Desktop metadata goals
• Support metadata standards and selected profiles
• Common experience for all users
• Simplify workflows
• Validate metadata
• Support the ArcGIS platform
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Editing metadata
• For datasets, services, tools, maps, layer files... almost everything
• Map, globe, scene, layer file Properties dialog box
• Description tab in any ArcGIS for Desktop application- ArcCatalog
- Item Description window
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Editing metadata
• From Properties dialog box
• Maps, scenes, globes: save if they are open
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Editing metadata
• In ArcCatalog
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Editing metadata
• From the Catalog window
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Editing metadata
• From the Search window
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Editing metadata
• From the Table of Contents (data behind layer)
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Editing metadata
• Validate content as you type
Expected value described
Error messages in plain language
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Setting your metadata style
• Default metadata style: Item Description- Quickly document items
- Support discovery when items are published
- Portion of an item’s full metadata
• Full metadata—use another style
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Setting your metadata style
• Options dialog box in any ArcGIS for Desktop application
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Pick the one that’s right for you
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Setting your metadata style
• Determines how metadata is- Displayed
- Edited
- Exported
- Validated
• Set once to meet organizational requirements
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Setting your metadata style
• Non-default styles provide access to full metadata content
Full content
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Setting your metadata style
• Same metadata display for all non-default styles- ArcGIS metadata
- Information is organized to match the ArcGIS metadata editor
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Setting your metadata style
• Standard-formatted metadata information displayed like the standard- FGDC-formatted content
- ISO 19139-formatted content
• XML not recognized as metadata, see XML structure
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Setting your metadata style
Edit full metadata content
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Setting your metadata style
• ArcGIS metadata includes all concepts for supported standards and profiles
• Most concepts are the same- All non-default styles edit common set of pages
• A metadata style filters the full set of concepts
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Setting your metadata style
• ArcGIS metadata also includes ArcGIS-specific content- Thumbnail
- Geoprocessing history
- Tool descriptions
- Detailed item properties
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Setting your metadata style
• Adds or removes pages
ISO-based styles add Locales page
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Setting your metadata style
• Adds or removes elements on a page
NAP style adds date types
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Setting your metadata style
• Changes values in some drop-down lists
INSPIRE has fewer codelist values
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Setting your metadata style
• Validation rules are appropriate for the current style
ISO 19139
INSPIRE
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Editing metadata
Missing required value or invalid data type
Page status
• Table of contents and errors update instantly as you type
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Editing metadata
• Save and reuse contact information
Check a contact to save it
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Editing metadata
• Load saved contacts as needed
Pick the saved contact from a list
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Item description content indexed for ArcGIS for Desktop search
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• New map layer or layer file derives properties from dataset metadata
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Package’s brief description is derived from the item’s metadata
Populated automatically
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Packaged item has full metadata
• Access it from the Catalog window
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Service description is derived from the item’s metadata
Populated automatically
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Description available at the service’s REST endpoint
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Service’s full metadata is derived from the item’s metadata
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• ArcGIS Server service’s REST endpoint provides access to full ArcGIS metadata
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Leveraging metadata in ArcGIS
• Published and packaged metadata is secure
• Any local network information is automatically removed for security
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Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x
• ArcGIS 10.x stores metadata in an internal format—ArcGIS metadata - Edits in the Description tab
- Automatic metadata synchronization
- ArcGIS software writes content behind the scenes—on Desktop and Server
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Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x
• ArcGIS platform leverages ArcGIS metadata
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Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x
• Used 9.3.1 FGDC metadata editor?- View metadata, click Yes when prompted
- Runs Upgrade Metadata tool
- Open and run tool manually
- Use a script to upgrade many items
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Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x
• Used 9.3.1 ISO metadata editor wizard?- Start editing metadata, save your changes—content is automatically upgraded
- Open and run Upgrade Metadata tool manually
- Use a script to upgrade many items
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Upgrading 9.3.1 metadata for ArcGIS 10.x
• Upgrade- Copies information to ArcGIS metadata elements
- Original elements remain in metadata
• Can re-upgrade with more recent software if original CSDGM content still present- Will lose edits made since last upgrade
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Importing and exporting metadata
• IMPORT: Convert standard metadata XML format to ArcGIS metadata
• Use Import button in the Description tab- Runs Import Metadata tool
- Set Import Type based on format of XML file
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Importing and exporting metadata
• IMPORT supported from- FGDC CSDGM XML format
- ISO 19139 XML format
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Importing and exporting metadata
• EXPORT: Convert ArcGIS metadata to a standard metadata XML format
• Use Export button in the Description tab- Runs Export Metadata tool
• Conversion is determined by the metadata style
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Importing and exporting metadata
• EXPORT supported to- FGDC CSDGM XML format
- ISO 19139 XML format
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Importing and exporting metadata
• Use exported XML files outside of ArcGIS- Publish to a geoportal
- Validate files with an XML schema, Schematron, or another application, e.g. mp
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Importing and exporting metadata
• ArcCatalog toolbar buttons export many items
• Use Python scripts to export files periodically- Export Metadata tool synchronizes metadata first
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Importing and exporting metadata
• Help topics compare available geoprocessing tools- Importing metadata
- Exporting metadata
• Creating and managing FGDC metadata- Format-specific conversions
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Updates in recent versions of 10.x
• 10.2.1 (& 10.2.2)- Improved validation rules in the ArcGIS metadata editor for all metadata styles
- Second ISO 19139 metadata style that will validate output using XML Schemas based on GML 3.2.1
- Small improvements when exporting CSDGM-format XML files
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• ArcGIS metadata created in ArcCatalog, ArcMap, ArcGlobe, ArcScene is used by ArcGIS Pro- Project pane pop-up
- Project view
- Search
- Package
- Publish
What’s coming with ArcGIS Pro?
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• Edit metadata using the same ArcGIS metadata editor as ArcCatalog, ArcMap, ArcGlobe, ArcScene - In Pro, the editor only includes the Item Description page for the first release
- Projects and map layers will support full metadata, but can’t provide it in the first release
• Metadata geoprocessing tools not yet available in first release
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Tips and Tricks
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ArcGIS Help system
• Use the ArcGIS Help system- In the TOC: Geodata > Data types > Metadata
- Search the Help system: metadata, FGDC, ISO
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Setting your metadata style
• If Description tab in use when setting the style, don’t see changes immediately- Click another tab then click Description tab again
- Click another item then click tab again
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Setting your metadata style
• Set the metadata style after install a new major release of ArcGIS for Desktop, e.g. 10.1, 10.2, 10.x
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Metadata display
• Supports typical page shortcuts- Go to bottom: Ctrl-End
- Go to top: Ctrl-Home
- Copy highlighted text: Ctrl-C
- Find text on page: Ctrl-F
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Copy metadata to another item
• Select the item you want to copy metadata to
• Click the Import button
• Use FROM_ARCGIS Import Type
• Set the source item from which you want to copy metadata- Metadata is copied, not transformed
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Using a metadata template
• Create a template metadata document with standard text
• Start creating an item’s metadata using a template
• Select the item and import the template’s content- Source item is the template
• Click the Import button in the Description tab
• Set Import Type based on the template’s format (can still use an old one)- In ArcGIS format: use FROM_ARCGIS – no transformation
- In CSDGM format: use FROM_FGDC – content transformed to ArcGIS format
• Overwrites any existing metadata
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Using a metadata template
• Need to update an old metadata template?
• Update it to work better in 10.x by converting it to the ArcGIS metadata format
• Select the template
• Click the Export button in the Description tab- For FGDC CSDGM-format: use FGDC2ESRI_ISO.xml translator
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• Metadata Importer tool = save XML as an item’s metadata tool- Created first
• Import Metadata model = convert standard-format metadata to ArcGIS metadata, then save the result as an item’s metadata- Doesn’t overwrite an item’s thumbnail, geoprocessing history, etc.
Importing and exporting metadata
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“Save As” XML file
• Save a copy of an item’s metadata to disk
• Select the item
• Run the XSLT Transformation tool
• Select the “exact copy of.xslt” transformation
• Saves a copy of the original item’s metadata to an XML file without changing content
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“Save As” HTML file
• Save a copy of the HTML you see in the metadata display
• Select the item
• Run the XSLT Transformation tool
• Select the “ArcGIS.xsl” transformation
• Extracts content from the item’s metadata and marks it up as an HTML file
• Viewing HTML: browser requires javascript to run
• “Allow Blocked Content” in IE
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Upgrade metadata in geodatabases
• For enterprise geodatabases, make sure user who can edit data runs the tool
• Save a copy of metadata to disk as a precaution- Database views can’t have metadata in recent versions of the geodatabase
• Select the item
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Rerun a metadata process
• Export or validate an item’s metadata, then update and run the process again
• After a metadata geoprocessing tool runs, the folder containing the output XML file is selected- Original item is no longer selected
• Reopen and rerun tools from the geoprocessing results window- Tool parameters already set appropriately
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Modify metadata using an XSLT transformation
• Create a model following the example: Editing metadata for many ArcGIS items
Change the metadata Save the
changes
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• Several XSLTs provided with software to perform well-known tasks
• Documented as part of the XSLT Transformation tool- Remove the geoprocessing history
- Remove internal information before exporting metadata for public consumption
- Remove CSDGM-format metadata elements after upgrading to the ArcGIS format
- And more…
Modify metadata using an XSLT transformation
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Modify metadata using a Python script
• Python includes pyxml module that can modify the structure of an XML file
• Save an item’s metadata as an XML file
• Modify the XML file using a Python script
• Save the modified XML file back to the item- Use the Metadata Importer tool
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Validate or generate CSDGM files with mp
• Many web sites leverage the HTML and text files produced by mp
• Export an item’s metadata to the CSDGM format
• Use the exported file as an input to the USGS MP Metadata Translator tool- Validate the XML file with mp
- Create other CSDGM file formats
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Add a standard-format metadata XML file to a package
• A package includes the item’s ArcGIS metadata
• Supplement a package with a standard format metadata file
• Export metadata to the appropriate standard format XML files
• During packaging, add Additional Files
• When unpackaged, the package folder includes the attached files
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Remaining metadata sessions at this UC
• Metadata Special Interest Group meeting- Today 5:30 - 7:00 Room 12
• Leveraging Metadata Standards for Supporting Interoperability in ArcGIS- Thursday 8:30 – 9:45 Room 32 B
• Working with Metadata in ArcGIS (Repeat of this presentation)- Thursday 10:15 – 11:45 Room 31 C
• Metadata and geoprocessing scripts - Thursday 10:00
- Mapping and Visualization Demo Theatre
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Where to find us
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