Import standardized metadata¶

If your data supplier has supplied you with metadata, or if you already have metadata, Isogeo lets you import it in ISO 19139 or Dublin-Core XML format.

Two methods:¶

The difference between the 2 methods is that by importing an XML file directly, without first creating a record in Isogeo, the metadata is not considered as Isogeo metadata. As such, the XML fields are imported as they are, and are not checked by Isogeo. Moreover, the metadata identifier remains that of the original file, as well as the downloaded XML file.

Fill in Isogeo metadata from an XML file¶

1. Open a manual or scan-created metadata record ;
2. Click on Modify;

3. Click on Import. The pop-up window below opens:

   

4. Click on "Select file", and Windows Explorer opens;

5. Select the XML to be imported ;
6. Enable or disable the overwrite existing data option ;
7. Click on Import. The information contained in the XML is imported into the metadata sheet.

Importing external metadata¶

1. In the inventory, click on Create
2. At the bottom, click on the Select files.... button Windows Explorer opens;
3. Select the XML file(s) to be imported. It's recommended to select up to 200, although no limit is imposed ;
4. Import starts. The duration depends on the number of files to be processed. A report is displayed at the end.

Imported fields¶

• title,
• summary,
• iNSPIRE themes,
• keywords,
• metadata creation date,
• validity period,
• collection context,
• grip,
• equivalent scale,
• resolution,
• access and use constraints,
• contact (if email address present),
• resource type,
• format
• encoding of data characters,
• language of the metadata.

Details and special cases¶

Non-recognized formats and types¶

If, at the end of the import, the report indicates a format error as below, this means that Isogeo has not found a match with its format database. You can therefore only import data whose format name syntax is known by the platform.

Here are the rules applied by Isogeo to determine the type of card:

• Raster: format must be set to ECW or GEOTIFF (upper or lower case).
• Vector (your choice) :
  • The format must be set to any other format supported by Isogeo. For example SHP, ORACLE or TAB (upper or lower case).
  • Or there's a gmd:spatialRepresentationInfo/*/gmd:MD_VectorSpatialRepresentation element (pseudo-XPath syntax).
  • Or there's a gmd:spatialRepresentationType/*/gmd:MD_SpatialRepresentationTypeCode element with the codeListValue attribute set to vector (pseudo XPath syntax).

Example of a compatible XML extract :

<gmd:distributionInfo>
  <gmd:MD_Distribution>
    <gmd:distributionFormat>
      <gmd:MD_Format>
        <gmd:name>
          <gco:CharacterString>shapefile</gco:CharacterString>
        </gmd:name>
        <gmd:version>
          <gco:CharacterString>1.0</gco:CharacterString>
        </gmd:version>
      </gmd:MD_Format>
    </gmd:distributionFormat>
  </gmd:distributionInfo>
</gmd:MD_Distribution>

Multi-plugs¶

Import unites all the geographic rights-of-way present in the imported file. If one of the rights-of-way contains all the others, only that one is retrieved.