This page is maintained as a historical reference to metadata tools which are now quiescent. The authors or agencies involved with creating these tools appear to have halted updating or further development of them. If you are an author or agency which developed a tool currently on the page of Historical Metadata Tools and feel I have buried your tool prematurely, please let me know! If you need a copy of one of these retirees and you cannot find it from its original source, send me an email request; I may have a copy in archive.
If you are interested in obtaining a metadata tool to help produce metadata right now, you should consult the page of active metadata tools or Doug Nebert's compilation of metadata tools for the FGDC.
In the table and linked summary pages, CSDGM refers to the June 8, 1994 version of the Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. An 'Intelligent' metadata tool is one that automatically extracts some metadata from data files that it supports. Under Metadata Storage Structure, 'Discrete' means that each document exists as a standalone (probably ASCII) document. 'Database' means at least some of the metadata is stored in a database so sections which are common to several documents are not redundantly stored. Any metadata which accompanies these tools as sample output should not be taken as 'example' metadata, i.e. they are samples of tool output, not samples to illustrate squeaky clean metadata!
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| Tool Name / Source Vendor, Agency or Author | Function | Platform/OS/GIS |
| ArcView Metadata Collector v. 2.0 / NOAA | Intelligent CSDGM metadata creation tool for ArcView supported data types | 3.0+ < ArcView < 8.1 and OS that supports it |
| ASCII template documents / Arnold Fahrquar | Metadata entry aid | Any platform with text editor or wordprocessing capabilities |
| BIC Metadata Form / Texas/Mexico Borderlands Information Center | On-line metadata submission suite | Forms capable Web browser for client, Web server with cgi-bin capabilities |
| BLMDOC (AML) / BLM | Intelligent CSDGM metadata creation tool for Arc/Info | UNIX Arc/Info |
| Corpsmet 1.02 / USACE | CSDGM metadata creation tool | DOS |
| DATA DICTIONARY (AML) / Gerry Daumiller (Montana State Library) | Intelligent CSDGM metadata creation tool for Arc/Info | UNIX or NT Arc/Info |
| Dataset Catalog 4.0 / National Park Service | Metadata creation tool | MS-Windows 3.1, 95, or NT with Microsoft Access 2.0+, or Windows 3.11 |
| DOCUMENT (AML) / ESRI | Intelligent CSDGM metadata entry tool for Arc/Info | UNIX Arc/Info version 7.0.3 or 7.0.4 |
| FGDC Metadata Entry System (MES/MDES) / Doug Nebert (USGS) | Metadata submission suite | Web browser for client, web server with Perl and Isite |
| Findarc / David Lanter (Geographic Designs) | Intelligent Arc/Info / ArcView data location, assessment, and documentation utility | SUN SPARCstations, SunOS and Solaris 2.x |
| KMDD (Klamath Metadata Dictionary) / UC Berkeley | Metadata creation tool | MS-Windows |
| The MDC (Metadata Collector) / Florida Data Directory | Metadata creation tool for Florida agencies | MS-Windows, UNIX |
| Metadata Management System / Lower Colorado River Authority | CSDGM metadata creation tool | MS-Windows 3.1, 95 or NT |
| METALITE (AML) 2.7 / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | Intelligent CSDGM metadata creation tool | Arc/Info 7.0+ for UNIX or NT |
| MetaMaker 2.30 / Environmental Management Technical Center | CSDGM metadata creation tool | MS-Windows |
| MetaViewer 1.2 / Edelstein Technology Group | Metadata cataloging / distribution / search database | MS-Windows with Visual FoxPro runtime (supplied) |
| MetaScan (AVX) / RTSe USA | HTML/Text metadata display extension for ArcView | ArcView that supports extensions (3+), and Web Browser |
| Metadata Validation Service / Chuck Stein (Naval Research Laboratory Monterey) | On-line implementation of mp to perform CSDGM metada validation | Any web browser which supports forms |
| Metagen32 / Coastal Oceanographics, Inc | CSDGM metadata creation tool | MS-Windows 95, NT |
| Metamorph / USGS | On-line CSDGM metadata entry tool | Any Web browser which supports forms |
| NJMetaLite / New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection | Metadata entry tool optimized for New Jersey datasets | MS-Windows 95, 98, NT |
| (NOAA) FGDC Metadata Toolkit 1.0 Beta / NOAA | CSDGM metadata creation tool | MS-Windows |
| (Oklahoma) Metadata Creator / portions Michael S. Scott (University of South Carolina) | CSDGM metadata creation tool | Machine with telnet access, or one on which the C code will compile |