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Metadata Reference

GeoBlacklight uses a lightweight metadata schema designed for geospatial resource discovery. The schema enables keyword searches, faceted refinement, and spatial map searching.

Metadata schema features:

  • based on Dublin Core, with custom elements added for spatial values
  • designed for discovery - to help users find items
  • not designed for complete technical documentation, such as a GIS dataset's processing history
  • includes elements for external links, such as downloads, web services, or supplemental metadata
  • interoperable for the OpenGeoMetadata federated metadata sharing community

Note

Metadata for GeoBlacklight is documented on the OpenGeoMetadata website . Key pages include:

Metadata functionality in GeoBlacklight 4.x

Hover over the column headers for sorting options.

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