Jaime Martindale

Bio: Jaime is the Map & Geospatial Data Librarian at the Arthur H. Robinson Map Library in the Department of Geography at UW-Madison. She has a Bachelor's degree in Conservation Biology and a Master's Degree in Library and Information Science, both from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to managing all print and digital cartographic/geographic resources in the library, Jaime teaches introductory GIS workshops and has given course lectures in Geography, Landscape Architecture, Urban & Regional Planning, and Library & Information Studies. Her professional interests include: geospatial data curation, long-term digital preservation, data repository architecture, geoportal development, and metadata standards.

Transforming Geospatial Metadata for a Collaborative Geoportal

Nine academic institutions have come together to create a portal for discovery and access to geospatial resources spanning eight states. Under the umbrella of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the project is collecting thousands of metadata records and transforming them to the International Organization on Standardization (ISO) schema. The FGDC has encouraged the transition from the US-based Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, to the more widely supported ISO standard. However, huge stores of geospatial metadata still exist in the older format and transforming them to ISO has proven to be challenging. This presentation will compare the methods and metadata tools currently available and discuss lessons learned.

metadata,transformation, FGDC, ISO, Geonetwork, ArcGIS, ArcCatalog, Oxygen, XML, XSLT, academic