Looking for a Metadata Editor

Question

Looking for a free open source metadata editor for the development of an enterprise database. It will mostly be used for documenting shapefiles and GeoTIFFs. Hoping that it will be an intuitive software since a range of skill levels will be working with it.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There is a metadata management tool for QGIS called "Metatools". I haven't tried it yet but it offers ISO style metadata handling:

Answer 2

Check out CatMDEdit. It's open-source and I think its pretty useful for editing metadata related to spatial data. From their website:

CatMDEdit is a metadata editor tool that facilitates the documentation of resources, with special focus on the description of geographic information resources.

It's also ISO compliant:

Metadata edition in conformance with "ISO 19115. Geographic Information - Metadata" standard (ISO 19115:2003/Cor 1 2006, ISO/TS 19139:2007 XML encoding). Edition interfaces adapted to different metadata profiles:

ISO 19115 comprehensive metadata model.

ISO 19115 Core metadata for geographic datasets.

Answer 3

• You probably already heard about geo-network which is an osgeo project supporting metadata standards. You will find all information on the link above and an online example here.
• MD Web is an open source for cataloging spatial information. It is ISO 19115 and ISO 19139 compliant. It is developed by a french research institute and available in french, english, italian, spanish and potuguese. See the editor page for more details.

If you just need to enter metadata information, I would also recommand to use the Metatools QGIS plugin, but if you want to deploy a database, Geonetwork or MD-Web are probably more interesting.

Answer 4

Beside geo-network, as proposed by simo, you may be interested by EUOSME. For more information, see there. See also this online example.

Answer 5

Regione Toscana (an italian local government) developed a ISO 19115-compliant editor called metabeta: http://servizi.regione.toscana.it/sgr-iso19115 Maybe you can take a look and see what do you think DISCLAIMER: I've developed part of this product, so this message looks more like a commercial advertising :)