Open Standards meets Open Source - Good Practice Guidance for Use of ISO19115-1
summary
Created a concrete best-practice set for ISO19115-1 metadata that maps ambiguous ISO definitions to actionable element usage, produced as raw Markdown, GitHub pages and PDF, and hosted so agencies can fork and extend. Work uses Loomio for discussion and Git for versioning, links examples and UML, and recommends embedded help for catalogs. GeoNetwork already implements the new standard; common libraries like pycsw/OWSLib do not. Group size is 50 people with ~30–35 active contributors, and consistency improvements are demonstrably usable.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:41Open Standards
- 2:30Metadata Elements
- 4:00Existing Guidance
- 4:50Pattern Language
- 5:48Open Source Platforms
- 7:20The Document
- 14:03Use and Usability
- 15:24Embedded Help
- 15:53Metadata Tools
- 17:20Summary
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