Creating Metadata

Creating metadata can be overwhelming at times, and is often viewed as time consuming. However, metadata creation is extremely important for many reasons and is easiest to create at the time the data are created.

Remember that metadata is the best way to advertise your data to others.

To help facilitate metadata creation, we have provided the following:

• Examples of metadata - This page showcases some basic metadata files
  to demonstrate what a metadata file looks like.


• Metadata Standards - Contains brief descriptions of current metadata standards and links to the standards documentation for geospatial metadata.


• Recommended Metadata Editors - This describes some of the most commonly used metadata editors used to create and modify metadata.


• Metadata Validation Tools - Lists some current tools used to validate metadata.


• Metadata Creation Training - Contains help pages and links to useful resources for creating metadata.


• Metadata Templates - Contains templates for creating metadata.