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Note: In October 2006, the North Central Research Station and the Northeastern Research Station joined to form the Northern Research Station. New publications are being added to the Northern Research Station Publications & Data site.

This publication is also available at: http://nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/2737

Title: Creating FGDC and NBII metadata with Metavist 2005.

Author: Rugg, David J.

Year: 2004

Publication: Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-255. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 30 p.

Abstract: This report documents a computer program for creating metadata compliant with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) 1998 metadata standard or the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) 1999 Biological Data Profile for the FGDC standard. The software runs under the Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP operating systems, and requires the presence of Microsoft's .Net Framework version 1.1. The metadata are output in XML format

Key Words: Metadata, FGDC, NBII, Biological Data Profile, XML, data documentation.

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