Meta Manager

Managing and Organizing Structured and Unstructured Metadata/Content Using Open Standards

An automated, easy-to-use publishing and discovery metadata management service for geospatial, structured/unstructured data using OGC, ISO and other metadata standards that allows users to create and search standardized metadata from database repositories or file-based data.

Enabling Interoperability
Metadata Compatbility and Enhancement

Meta Manager provides data providers with the ability to quickly and easily reveal their data holdings and data assets using metadata via web-based interfaces.

Many organizations have large volumes of data, information and content that reside on the organizations’ file systems. Files residing on file systems can be in a structured format. For example, ArcGIS formats such as file geodatabases and shapefiles or imagery such as GeoTIFF. Files residing on file systems can also be unstructured. For example, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats.

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Harvest, Enrich, and Transform Your Data into Discoverable Information.

Meta Manager will harvest metadata from file systems, regardless of the directory layout, and provide a common framework for processing this information to extract meaning and create structured data about the information.

It will crawl directory structures and harvest metadata about files discovered into the database configured to work with Meta Manager.

There are very few restrictions on file types. File types, for example, may include: KML, MrSID, GeoTIF, PDF, SHP; Microsoft documents: Word, PowerPoint, Excel; and image types: PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, JPG, JPE, JPEG, JFIF, ICO, PNM, PGM, PBM, PPM, PSD and XMP; HTML files; etc.

Meta Manager has the ability to fill in gaps in the database for the metadata standard. For example, contact information may be entered once and then be retrieved along with each metadata record in the database.