[GeoNetwork-users] Resend: Managing copies/instances of datasets

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Hi all

I'm resending this as I haven't had any real response (just one with questions but no answers).

To rephrase the question: when a dataset is supplied from an outside organisation with metadata, how do you record details about your copy of the data? E.g. When did we get it? Where is it stored? Who is responsible for it?

Regards
Jonathan

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Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Managing copies or instances of datasets

Hi all

Is there a common approach to recording details of copies (aka "instances" or "holdings") of data sourced from another organisation?

Currently we add our own contact and location details to the source ISO19115 record.

However it would be cleaner perhaps to leave the source record unchanged, and add a second record (a child perhaps?) with a minimal set of attributes to describe the copy, such as:

* Date received

* Version

* Our contact

* Our stored location

Jonathan Doig
Senior Data Program Coordinator
Information Management and Spatial
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Hi Jonathan,

I would make a copy of the original record and update the specific fields like the conditions of use, the place where it is stored, how to get it, who can get it, etc.
As your organisation has its own copy of the dataset, I guess we can consider it as another dataset. So, in my opinion, it must have its own metadata record.

It may have an interest to keep both the original metadata (in sync with the metadata of the organisation which originally publicates the dataset) and your organisation version of the metadata if your catalogue is targeted both towards your organisation and a larger public. Doing so, you can direct people from your organisation towards your organisation version of the dataset and the larger public towards the original dataset.

I must say I did not experiment this solution yet but we plan to do it like that.
Any other idea welcome :wink:

Vincent

Vincent Bombaerts
Service Public de Wallonie
http://geoportail.wallonie.be/geocatalogue

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Hi all

I'm resending this as I haven't had any real response (just one with questions but no answers).

To rephrase the question: when a dataset is supplied from an outside organisation with metadata, how do you record details about your copy of the data? E.g. When did we get it? Where is it stored? Who is responsible for it?

Regards
Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Doig [mailto:Jonathan.Doig@anonymised.com]
Sent: Friday, 11 April 2014 6:11 PM
To: geonetwork-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [GeoNetwork-users] Managing copies or instances of datasets

Hi all

Is there a common approach to recording details of copies (aka "instances" or "holdings") of data sourced from another organisation?

Currently we add our own contact and location details to the source ISO19115 record.

However it would be cleaner perhaps to leave the source record unchanged, and add a second record (a child perhaps?) with a minimal set of attributes to describe the copy, such as:

* Date received

* Version

* Our contact

* Our stored location

Jonathan Doig
Senior Data Program Coordinator
Information Management and Spatial
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