Formal metadata information and software
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CSDGM 1994 (superseded)
This document has been superseded.
Everyone should refer instead to the
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
, officially known as FGDC-STD-001-1998, dated June 1998, at the web site of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
Metadata -- data about the content, quality, condition, and other characteristics of data.
Compound
Metadata =
Identification_Information
+ 0{
Data_Quality_Information
}1 + 0{
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
}1 + 0{
Spatial_Reference_Information
}1 + 0{
Entity_and_Attribute_Information
}1 + 0{
Distribution_Information
}1 +
Metadata_Reference_Information
USGS tools and info for formal metadata
This page is http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/standard/
Maintained by
Peter Schweitzer
Last updated 20-Jul-1998