Metadata tools

[Devrim Tezcan]

You can download the tools from these web sites or from Federica's ftp site

Mikado: http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Software/MIKADO

GeoNetwork opensource:  http://geonetwork-opensource.org/

Inspire metadata edşitor: http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/editor/

CatMDEdit: http://catmdedit.sourceforge.net/

Esri ArcCatalog: www.esri.com

[Devrim Tezcan]

A brief explanations of different metadata tools

[Devrim Tezcan]

Seadatanet and Mikado metadata editor

[Federica Foglini]

Please can you make comments about this metadata tools.

Can you let us know who of you is familiar with mikado?

I would like also to focus on biological data, in particular biodiversity and connectivity.

Do you think Mikado has the proper fields for you data, do you think it should be further implemented to be efficiently used for our project?

 

Can you please try to create metadata as an examples of your biological data.

 

I will post you a metadata for bathymetry as example

[francescodeleo]

Dear all

I'm trying to upload metadata using mikado tool.  I would like to use a map of Posidonia meadows along the coast of Apulia. However, when I try to generate the xml file I receive a message of error in the coordinates (-WHERE-GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE-BOUNDING-BOX).

May you suggest me how can I include the coordinates in this case?

May you send me more detailed explanations on filling the following fields:

·      WHERE TO FIND THE DATA: distributor  (who is supposed to be?)- collate centre - distributions website and service.

·      OTHERS data format (what I have to upload here?)

In the field “HOW” sampling techniques typical of coastal areas are poorly represented (photo sampling, visual estimates)

I also think that might be useful for us to have a user manual teaching how to enter data in Mikado on the basis of a general layer (ie. a series of screenshot).

Thanks a lot

Francesco

[Anna Sebova]

I worked with Mikado during the UBSS project,
with manual and automatic mod for 4 metadata type:

CDI – Common Data Index

CSR – Cruise Summary Reports

EDMED – Marine Environmental Data sets

EDMERP – Marine Environmental Research Projects

We presented hydrochemical, hydrological, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich substances and biology.
In focus on biology, we presented phytoplankton – abundance and biomass on the surface layer.

As long as each XML-CDI file has suited ODV file it could be processed, visualized and analyzed in Ocean Data View. So I think it should be work in that project as it was in UBSS.
Our file with phytoplankton in attachment.
Or link: http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_cdi_v2/print_xml.aspx?n_code=1227956

[Devrim Tezcan]

Collate Center will be the Seadatanet NODC of the country, I will provide you the list of NODC later, for now choose one.

Distributor is your organisation. If your organisation is not in the list, update the vocabulary list first:

Option menu > Vocabulary update > Update once now

If your organisation is not in the list, please let me know.

Francesco, could you please send me the coordinates that you have?

devrim

[Anna Sebova]

Francesco, 

You can find answers for all your questions according to Mikado here -   http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Metadata-formats 
specifically here:
http://www.seadatanet.org/content/download/9651/65176/file/CDI_XML_V1_documentation_5_00_June2010.doc
http://www.seadatanet.org/content/download/9654/65191/file/CDI_sdn_V1.6_GML.zip
and here you can validate your xml-files - http://www.seadatanet.org/validator

Good luck!

[Anna Sebova]

Francesco,

There you can download Mikado manual and presentation: 
MIKADO FAQ: http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Software/MIKADO/FAQ 
user manual:  http://www.seadatanet.org/content/download/11767/78389/file/sdn_Mikado_UserManual_V2.3.pdf 
presentations (slides with images, as you wish)): http://www.seadatanet.org/content/download/11765/78379/file/MIKADO_tool.pps

I hope it will help,
Anna.

[Federica Foglini]

Devrim,

can you please specify if we are going to create CDI or EDMED for our data?
I would like to connect the metadata to our feature class in the Geodatabase, do you think it is better to create a CDI?

Manay thanks for the explanation

[Devrim Tezcan]

EDMED is the description (metadata) of the whole dataset: There will be one EDMED entry for Coconet Project.

For each data, we have to create a CDI metadata. It can be point, line, polygon or surface.

[Federica Foglini]

A new questions....

If we have a group of points (for example seabed samples collected during a cruise) can we make a unique .xml for all point writing the name of the cruise in the station_id? I guess so, but it is just to clarify to all group!

[Devrim Tezcan]

Yes we can,

in the Where tab, you can add new coordinate pairs by pressing green +

[catia.chiappini]

Yes you can add another point, but there is a problem (I think) with the start/end date (<resRefDate> in xml) and so if our group of points are in different dates probably you cannot create an unique xml file.

[catia.chiappini]

Unless you indicate the beginning and the end of the cruise. I reason always based on vertical profiles ctd type, so I think for me it is fundamental to every station to have a beginning and an end, I do not know for other types of data.

[Anna Sebova]

I agree with Catia in her opinion about vertical profile.

When you work with cruise, you had better make different CDI-files for each station, because different numbers of samples and with different time interval could be made for different stations. By the way for cruises better metadata type is CSR.

[Federica Foglini]

Thanks for this anwers

I think We need to find a way a common way to create metadata for COCONET, taking into account the Layers we are working with:

Devrim can you help with this issue

For Example we need to create xml for seabed samples collected during a cruise with different instruments. We have maybe 100 station for each cruise so I dont think it is possible to generate en .xml for each station.

1 .Should we create an .xml for each cruise as CDI or as CSR?

2. Is there a way to automatically load coordinates from an .xls files? NEMO can be the solution?

3. Is there a way to automatically load the vertex of a polygon (for example the Multi Beam Coverage) in mikado without inserting the single coordinates.

[Devrim Tezcan]

Federica,

1 .Should we create an .xml for each cruise as CDI or as CSR?

CSR (Cruise Summary Report) gives only the information about the cruise (Datesi Ports, PI, etc), we need one separate CDI file for each measurement (point, line or surface). If you have several stations, you need to create several CDIs. 

2. Is there a way to automatically load coordinates from an .xls files? NEMO can be the solution?

Nemo is a software to convert data from ascii format to seadatanet format (ODV). 

If you have one excel file with all the metadata informations of the all stations, you can use Mikado in automatic way: Mikado can create the CDI-xml files automatically (Unless you have all the information and correct vocabulary in excel).

If you have the informations in separate excel files for each station (but the same template: same info should be in same cell in excel), i can help you to create a visual basic script to read info from this excel files and create one excel sheet to be used with mikado.

3. Is there a way to automatically load the vertex of a polygon (for example the Multi Beam Coverage) in mikado without inserting the single coordinates.

Let me check this one, i think it is possible again with the automatic way in Mikado.

[Francesca Lisi]

Valentina and me, we are working with NEMO trying to generate a CDI summary file to import in MIKADO with the aim to create a .xml file for each cruise line of the layer we work on. Please find attached the ASCII file we work on (each cruise line is defined by its start and end point) , can someone check if there are formatting errors? We had problems both in file description (NEMO does not properly recognize columns division)  and in station description (we are not able to set lat and long with 8 decimals and we haven’t any sampling rate so we don’t know how to set this option). 

Thanks

[Federica Foglini]

Dear all,

please NEMO Exert can you have a look to this file and see if the forma is fine! we have lots of errore when trying to export it

THANKS

[Devrim Tezcan]

Hi Francesca,

Can you send me some examples of your ascii files?

To use nemo to create a summary for mikado, you should identify all mandatory information (fields with red star in mikado)

Devrim

[Francesca Lisi]

Hi Devrim,

try to import this file and tell me if you can work easily on it.

We never use neither Mikado nor Nemo, so is really difficult for us to understand its procedures.

Thanks

Francesca

[Francesca Lisi]

[Devrim Tezcan]

Hi Francesca,

Nemo is a software to reformat the ascii data. For example you have several CTD data file (something.txt), each of this file has the information about the measurement on top and then the real data. In Nemo, what you do is to create rules to read these informations (for exa: 2nd line, character from15 to 22 = longitude). And then nemo convert the real data to ODV (Ocean Data View) format. Once you create the rules you can apply to all the other data files. While reformatting the data file you can also create a summary of the informations to use in Mikado. Check the ppt presentation and user manual of nemo: http://www.seadatanet.org/Standards-Software/Software/NEMO

However, in your case, you have already a summary. What you should do is open this file in excel, add more columns that mikado ask (mandatory field), fill them, then use mikado in automatic way to create a connection between mikado and excel.

Devrim

[Federica Foglini]

Hi devrim

Francesca and Valentina are a bit stacked with this file.
Can you please try to format the file as Mikado requires in order to make a template and let them understand how to proceed.
Many thanks

Federica

[Devrim Tezcan]

Ok, i will do it tonight

devrim

[Federica Foglini]

Thanks Devrim