GeoBTAA Metadata Handbook¶
This handbook describes how to curate metadata records for the BTAA Geoportal.
Download a PDF of this site here.
Who is this for?¶
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Team Members in the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geospatial Information Network (BTAA-GIN)
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Development & Operations Staff in the BTAA-GIN
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Users & developers of open-source geospatial projects, such as OpenGeoMetadata and GeoBlacklight
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Contributors to the BTAA Geoportal
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Users of the BTAA Geoportal
Contents:¶
Reference¶
Information about the GeoBTAA Metadata Application Profile
How-to guides¶
Guidelines for identifying, submitting
Explanation¶
Descriptions and clarifications of processes, policies, and tools
Version History¶
Changes for Version 4.6 (March 15, 2023)
- New page for manually adding bounding boxes
- Restructure using Diataxis framework
- Remove some GEOMG how to guidelines (moved to GEOMG Wiki)
- Clarify Editing Template differences from OGM-Aaardvark documentation
- Added Collection Development Policy and Curation Priorities documents
- Update input guidelines for Spatial Coverage (FAST IDs)
Changes for Version 4.5.1 (February 28, 2023)
- Update version documentation
- Add link to generated PDF
Changes for Version 4.5 (February 28, 2023)
- Add Creator ID
- Update input guidelines for Creator, Creator ID
- Remove Harvesting Guide info (migrating to separate site)
- Edit Submitting Metadata page
- Minor copy editing
- Add PDF export capability
Changes for Version 4.4 (August 23, 2022)
- updated theme
- reorganized and expanded navigation menu
- new sections for Harvesting Guide and using GEOMG
Changes for Version 4.3 (August 15, 2022)
- migrate to MkDocs.org platform
- update bounding box entry guidelines
- add GEOMG page
Changes for Version 4.2 (March 24, 2022)
- New Entry and Usage Guidelines page
- Expands content organization model documentation
- Changes the name of the schema from 'Aardvark' to 'OpenGeoMetadata (version Aardvark)'
- Cleans up outdated links
Changes for Version 4.1 (Jan 2022)
- updates Status as optional; removes controlled vocabulary
- Clarifies relationship model
Changes for Version 4.0 (July 2021)
- Incorporation of GEOMG Metadata Editor
- Upgrade to Aardvark Metadata Schema for GeoBlacklight
Changes for version 3.3 (May 13, 2020)
- Added University of Nebraska
- Reorganized Metadata Elements to match editing template
- Updated the “Update the Collections” section to match new administrative process for tracking records
Changes for version 3.2 (Jan 8, 2020)
- Added Date Range element
Changes for version 3.1 (Dec 19, 2019)
- Added collection level records metadata schema
Changes for version 3 (Oct 2019)
- GeoNetwork and Omeka deprecated
- all GeoBlacklight records are stored in a spreadsheet in Google Sheets
- records are transformed from CSV to GeoBlacklight JSON with a Python script
- additional metadata fields were added for administrative purposes
- IsPartOf field now holds a code pointing to the collection record
- Administrative groupings such as “State agencies geospatial data” are now subjects, not a Collection
- updated editing templates available
- all supplemental metadata can be stored as XML or HTML in project hosted folder
- updated links to collections database
Credits¶
Handbook prepared by:
- Karen Majewicz, Geospatial Product Manager
- Ziying (Gene) Cheng - Graduate Research Assistant