Metadata Directories (metadata Catalogues, Data Directories)
(need discussion of, and subsections on GCMD, FGDC metadata gateway, ASDD, European and Canadian initiatives, etc. etc.)
- GCMD - Global Change Master Directory's goal is to enable users to locate and obtain access to Earth science data sets and services relevant to global change and Earth science research. The GCMD database holds more than 20,000 descriptions of Earth science data sets and services covering all aspects of Earth and environmental sciences.
- GoGeo - GoGeo is a service run by EDINA (Data Library, University of Edinburgh) and is supported by JISC. GoGeo allows users to conduct geographically targeted searches to discover geospatial datasets. GoGeo searches many data portals from the HE and FE community and beyond. GoGeo also allows users to create standards compliant metadata through its Geodoc editor.
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“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it—all my life.”
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