EDINA newsline
June 2010: Volume 15 Issue 2
A new version of Geodoc, the metadata authoring tool from Go-Geo!, was released in late April.
Geodoc users will find the same template form, but with new enhancements to create INSPIRE and UK GEMINI 2-compliant metadata records, using the new UK Academic Geospatial Metadata Application Profile, Version 2 (UK AGMAP 2).
Records created with Geodoc meet the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) requirements mandating metadata creation across the EU Member States.
The current issue of the Go-Geo! Metadata Newsletter has an article (“INSPIRE Act of 2009 comes into force in the UK”) that addresses this new regulation in more detail.
Geodoc provides new functionality for creating, validating, editing, exporting and publishing metadata records, and supports the export of XML metadata record files into multiple formats.
For more information about the INSPIRE Directive and how the Go-Geo! portal services can provide tools for you to create and publish INSPIRE-compliant metadata, or to arrange for a geospatial metadata workshop at your department or institution, please contact the EDINA Helpdesk: edina@ed.ac.uk.