Geospatial Librarian

Issue: Keywords in a group of records within GeoNetwork were too specific and not normalized Challenge: Editing each record individually would be time consuming, since many keywords would have to be deleting one by one.  Additionally, the keywords were grouped in sections and some can not be deleted easily from the interface. Our project's CSW update process was adding new keywords, but not deleting existing ones, nor could it address the messy structure of the keyword sections. Solution: Download records, delete entire keyword node using Oxygen, re-upload, perform a CSW update to insert new keywords. ----- Overview This post focuses on the utility in Oxygen for deleting a node in an XML file.  I decided to use this technique because I had group of ISO 19139 files where the keyword section was corrupted with multiple nests, and the keywords themselves were not aligned with our preferred metadata vocabulary.  Deleting the sections manually in GeoNetwork did not always wor

On May 26, several task force members attended the first  UMGEOCON , the Upper Midwest Geospatial Conference.  This is a new regional conference that encompasses GIS professionals from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.  Jaime Martindale and Karen Majewicz gave a presentation about the metadata workflow for GIS resources. Here is a link to the presentation as Google Slides.