MEDIN Standards Workshop Using ESRI ARC 10 to create metadata

Transformation

XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) –Specifies rules for transforming one XML instance into another XML instance –The output XML instance will have a different structure from the input XML instance Pa ge 3

ESRI XML to MEDIN XML MEDIN XML must be follow the ISO XML encoding –Users may wish to use other software to create and manage metadata (e.g. ESRI desktop GIS) –ESRI software manages metadata using XML –The XML does not following the ISO standard –The XML can be transformed to ISO –MEDIN provides resources to support this Pa ge 4

Stylesheet Tools Pa ge 6

ESRI ArcGIS

Versions ArcGIS 9 –FGDC / ISO ArcGIS 10 –ESRI Core Metadata –Both use XML encoding –The encodings are slightly different –Why the change at version 10? Pa ge 8

ESRI ArcCatalog – Options Pa ge 9

ESRI ArcCatalog Pa ge 10

Transformation Pa ge 11 ArcGIS 9 Metadata ArcGIS 10 Metadata MEDIN Metadata Transformation e.g. Internal usee.g. External / Publish to DAC

Transform Options Use MEDIN stylesheets –ArcGIS 9 version –ArcGIS 10 version (or the Validate button) Implementation –Any XSL stylesheet processor (version1.0), e.g: ArcGIS 9 or 10 ArcToolBox Metadata Maestro Pa ge 12