[Geowanking] metadata implementations

[Mick Wilson]

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--- Allan Doyle <afdoyle at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:24 AM, Tim Bowden wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking for examples of large(ish?) spatial
> metadata systems that
> > have either been successful or have tanked (ok,
> that should open the
> > field up a little).  If you are able to point me
> in the direction of
> > such (along with any ideas as to why it was
> successful or not), that
> > would be great.  Note, I'm specifically not
> looking at metadata tools.
> > Just projects that tried to implement such a
> system.
> 
> It's not always easy to separate metadata from the
> catalog systems  
> that employ the metadata. I think it's safe to say
> that hundreds of  
> millions of dollars have been spent worldwide on
> earth observation  
> metadata systems.
> 
> Here are some pointers and pointers to pointers:
> 
>
http://www.esdswg.org/spg/docindexfolder/heritage/STSUM_brief
>
http://geoconnections.org/publications/Technical_Manual/html_e/appendix_1-8.html
> http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
> http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/nomads.php
> http://www.echo.eos.nasa.gov/
>
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel4/6000/16049/00744504.pdf?isnumber=&arnumber=744504
> 
> In terms of success, that's a bit trickier... the
> holy grail of  
> spatial search has not been found...
> 
> 	Allan
> 
> >
> 
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