Karen Majewicz

Bio: Karen is the CIC Geospatial Project Metadata Coordinator at the University of Minnesota. She has worked with historic maps for the Minnesota Historical Society and several regional historical societies. She holds a masters of geospatial information science (MGIS) and specializes in digital archives and metadata.

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