Maine GIS Feature Metadata Recommendation 2000
The Maine GIS Feature Metadata Recommendation was presented
to the GIS Technical Group in October 2000, by the GIS Technical Group feature
metadata subcommittee, and was submitted to the GIS EC in December of the same
year. Additional information on this initiative and other Maine GIS
recommendations is available at
http://apollo.ogis.state.me.us/standards/standards.asp
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FEATURE METADATA RECOMMENDATION Brief
The use of FM items and codes in feature attribute tables is
recommended, to provide accessible readable standardized notation that
describes the quality and currentness of each geospatial feature's location.
Recommended FM items are FMSRC, FMSRCORG, FMPROCSS, FMUPDORG, FMUPDDAT with two
optional items FMSRCDAT and FMNOTE. These items are recommended for use to
record the following information about the location of a feature: the source
used to identify the feature's location, the source originator, the process
used to incorporate the feature, also the organization of edit and date of edit
if applicable. It is recommended that the items be populated with standardized
and defined FM codes. FM codes for use in these items, like the items
themselves, are designed to be unique references, as short, clear and
self-explanatory as possible. All have been listed, standardized, and defined
so that each represents a single information type and entity. For example what
is meant by the item FMSRC coded 24k, tigers90, gps, engplan, sketch, or
roughsrvy, FMSRCORG coded usgs, medot, uscb, FMPROCSS coded closure, edgematch,
or screendig is specific and defined. Codes are in text, all lower case and
include no hyphens, punctuation or spaces. Codes for use in source originator
and organization of edit are organizational acronyms that have been confirmed.
Wherever possible federal agencies carry the "us" prefix and state agencies
carry the postal prefix "me" for the state of origin, i.e. medot, medhs, megis.
The FM subcommittee has defined this set of items and related codes with
reference to elements in FGDC metadata. The FM recommendation is flexible and
will function in most GIS environments independent of FGDC metadata or specific
metadata tools; however, because coordination of feature attribute tables with
FGDC metadata maximizes available information and minimizes attribute load,
parallel or subsequent development of FGDC metadata, and use of cross
references to same, is assumed and recommend
