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Metadata Editing¶

Bridge provides a basic editor for metadata properties to create ISO19139 metadata records. The purpose of this editor is to easily complete a minimal subset of required metadata elements:

Title
Description (abstract)
ISO topic category
Metadata contact
Data contact
License
Fees
Metadata language

Metadata default properties¶

When the metadata is published to GeoNetwork Opensource catalog, the values introduced in these fields and the fields filled in the ArcCatalog® metadata editor are used to create an ISO-19139 compliant metadata record.

Profiles¶

The Premium version provides support for the following metadata profiles:

INPIRE
Dutch Geography v1.2

Metadata profile selection¶

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INSPIRE¶

For the INSPIRE profile two additional panels are provided to edit metadata properties:

INSPIRE properties¶

Temporal properties¶

Dutch Geography v1.2¶

For the Dutch Geography v1.2 profile two additional panels are provided to edit metadata properties:

Dutch Geography 1.2¶

Metadata Temporal properties¶

Metadata preview¶

To show a preview of the metadata of the selected layer, click on images_eng/preview_metadata_button.png :

Metadata preview¶

If the data has been published to the server(s), there is corresponding link to view the data in a web browser.

Metadata validation¶

Bridge Premium supports schematron validation for the supported profiles. Schematron validation checks the content of the metadata file for required properties of the selected metadata profile. To perform metadata validation on a layer metadata, click on images_eng/checkmark.png :

A report is shown with the validation results.

Metadata schematron validation¶