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- Name/Version:
- MetaLite / Rev 2.7. Obtain the flavor for your version of Arc/Info, and your specific operating system.
- Reviewer / Date: None. the description here was furnished by the tool's author on 12/16/98
- Date of last known release: December 8, 1998
- Function: Intelligent CSDGM metadata creation tool
- Obtaining Software:
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 FTP Server IP address: 164.159.151.4, username is "anonymous", password is your email address. Descend to directory Metalite. Read README file. GET the files you need for new installation or updating an existing MetaLite revision. (No connection to ftp server at 164.159.151.4 could be made on 12/19/2004.)
- Platform: Arc/Info running on UNIX or Windows NT
- Principal Contact: Barry Dearborn, barry_dearborn@yahoo.com
- Status: Production Rev. 2.7
- Metadata Storage Structure: Discrete, but acts like a database
- Brief Description:
- MetaLite is a CSDGM metadata entry tool created with Arc/Info AML language. If the dataset is declared to be an Arc/Info coverage and the coverage is online, data mining can be initiated to supply the data bounds and projection parameters, however no thematic information is extracted. Because MetaLite is not tied to Arc/Info data, it forms a generic metadata documentation tool for any geospatial data. AML was chosen for the tool development environment because of the author's familiarity with this language, because it provided the needed user interface tools, and because users at the development home for this tool (USFWS, Anchorage) all have UNIX Arc/Info available to them. As the name implies, the tool allows documentation of a subset of the metadata elements present in the CSDGM (about one third) which were deemed sufficient for FWS requirements at a national level. Metalite has been enhanced with a SGML import that can process any FGDC-compliant SGML metadata file, extracting only the "lite" subset of elements. MetaLite automatically runs mp (Metadata Parser) to generate text, SGML and HTML outputs. MetaLite has built-in connectivity to a locally installed ISITE node and can automatically add the metadata file and re-index the database. Browse image files can be automatically embedded in HTML output.
- Cost: None
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