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Re: Introducing myself
Robert Geier wrote:
>
...
> Projects that I am currently involved in ...
> -a metadata database with www interface to record datasets associated
> with Australian research in Antarctica,
...
> -general www interfaces to database tables for data mining/data
> analysis/data visualisation(graphing or vrml)/data export,
Robert -
I'm trying something similar for the AGCRC.
I'm currently designing/prototyping a scheme to combine these two.
The testbed application is the GRASSLinks map query system at
http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/AGCRC/4dgm/grasslinks
but I have been developing a more generalised dataset
description method, based on creating simple ascii files
for "published" datasets - look in
http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/AGCRC/4dgm/data for examples.
(The name=value syntax easily maps onto <meta > syntax
for HTML objects of course.) In due course I would expect
to use http to get the dataset information stored remotely,
though currently I just use the OS to get at the file-system
(via perl - I load it into a hash-of-hashes for my metadatabase!).
I'm planning to look at some other viz options soon -
possibly based on the VRML support in vtk, so I'd be
very interested to hear about the technology that you
are using.
> been given the job of implementing a standard(ANZLIC) I have found that
> the rules and structures developed by others do not fit my needs and
> need expansion - hence this email.
>
> I know that there are a lot of organisations/people in Australia/the
> world who are currently sitting on the fence when it comes to metadata,
> knowing that they must eventually invest in a particular standard, but
> waiting for a winner of "the war of the standards". Different
> organisations have differing requirements from a metadata standard,
I think the "Warwick Framework" points the right way here -
(and maybe the "Canberra Qualifications" !)
I have sketched a proposal for our organisation in a paper
I'll be giving at the aw3tc meeting in Brisbane in two weeks -
I suggest combining DC, ANZLIC and local (AGCRC) schemas.
You can preview the paper at
http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/AGCRC/projects/3018CO/1aw3tc.html
- don't berate me too much for the errors therein - I wrote it
a couple of months ago!
> I urge all members of this mail group to closely examine the ANZLIC
> standard for relevance to their metadata, and participate fully in the
> discussions that will follow regarding additions/modifications to the
> standard. The more input that you have to the development of this
> standard, the easier it will be to implement within your organisation.
However, as I already responded to Mark Taylor
> Mark Taylor wrote:
> >
> > To assist
> > organisations in submitting metadata information and in documenting
> > and managing their own data holdings, ANZLIC has developed its
> > Microsoft Access Metadata Entry tool which is available free of
> > charge.
>
> I'll be happy to comply, when you have a *web-based*
> metadata entry tool. Let's get up to date here.
> I certainly won't use Access (don't have it, don't need it).
Regards Simon Cox
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CSIRO Exploration & Mining, PO Box 437, Nedlands, WA 6009 Australia
T: +61 9 389 8421 F: +61 9 389 1906 simon@ned.dem.csiro.au
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