Supporting Text Searches

From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Text searches are a very important mechanism for data discovery. This group includes attributes that contain descriptive text that could be the target of these searches. Some of these attributes, for example title and summary, might also be displayed in the results of text searches.

Crosswalks

Concept Description Paths
Title A short description of the dataset. DIF /DIF/Entry_Title
Dryad dcterms:title
ECHO /Collection/ShortName>/Collection/LongName
EML /eml:dataset/eml:title/eml:text
FGDC /fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:citation/fgdc:citeinfo/fgdc:title
ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title/gco:CharacterString
OGC-SOS /sos:Capabilities/ows:ServiceIdentification/ows:Title
THREDDS /catalog/dataset/@name
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=title]
Abstract A paragraph describing the dataset. DIF /DIF/Summary/Abstract
Dryad dcterms:description
ECHO /Collection/Description
EML /eml:dataset/eml:abstract/eml:descendant
FGDC /fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:descript/fgdc:abstract
ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:abstract/gco:CharacterString
OGC-SOS /sos:Capabilities/ows:ServiceIdentification/ows:Abstract
THREDDS metadata/documentation[@type=summary]
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=summary]
Purpose A paragraph describing the original purpose for collecting the dataset. DIF /DIF/Summary/Purpose
ECHO /Collection/SuggestedUsage
ECS METADATA > COLLECTIONMETADATA > CollectionAssociation > CollectionAssociationContainer.CollectionUse
EML /eml:dataset/eml:project/eml:title/eml:text
FGDC /fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:descript/fgdc:purpose
ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:purpose/gco:CharacterString
Keyword A comma separated list of key words and phrases. DIF /dif:DIF/dif:Parameters/dif:Category > //dif:Parameters/dif:Topic > //dif:Parameters/dif:Term

> //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_1 > //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_2 > //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3 > //dif:Parameters/dif: > //dif:Parameters/dif:Variable_Level_3
Dryad dcterms:subject
ECHO / echo:Collection/echo:ScienceKeywords/echo:ScienceKeyword/echo:CategoryKeyword>//echo:TopicKeyword>//echo:TermKeyword>//echo:VariableLevel1Keyword/echo:Value>//echo:VariableLevel2Keyword/echo:Value>//echo:VariableLevel3Keyword>//echo:DetailedVariableKeyword
ECS METADATA > COLLECTIONMETADATA > DisciplineTopicParameters > DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSDisciplineKeyword > DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSParameterKeyword > DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTermKeyword

> DisciplineTopicParametersContainer.ECSTopicKeyword
EML /eml:dataset/eml:keywordSet/eml:keyword/eml:text
FGDC /fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:keywords/fgdc:theme/fgdc:themekey |/fgdc:metadata/fgdc:idinfo/fgdc:keywords/fgdc:place/fgdc:placekey
ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:keyword/gco:CharacterString
OGC-SOS /sos:Capabilities/ows:ServiceIdentification/ows:Keywords/ows:Keyword
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=keywords]
Keyword Vocabulary If you are following a guideline for the words/phrases in your "keywords" attribute,

put the name of that guideline here.

ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:thesaurusName/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:title/gco:CharacterString
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=keyword_vocabulary]
Standard Name Vocabulary The name of the controlled vocabulary from which variable standard names are taken. ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords/gmd:MD_Keywords/gmd:keyword/gco:CharacterString
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:variable/attribute/@name=standard_name
Lineage Provides an audit trail for modifications to the original data. ISO /*/gmd:dataQualityInfo/gmd:DQ_DataQuality/gmd:lineage/gmd:LI_Lineage/gmd:statement/gco:CharacterString
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=history]
Other Information Miscellaneous information about the data. FGDC /fgdc:taxoncl/fgdc:taxonrv[../fgdc:taxonrn=’Class’]
ISO /*/gmd:identificationInfo/*/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:otherCitationDetails/gco:CharacterString
netCDF /nc:netcdf/nc:attribute[@name=comment]

xPath Note: The xPaths included in this table use several wildcards. // means any path, so //gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty indicates a gmd:CI_ResponsibleParty anywhere in an XML file. /*/ indicates a single level with several possible elements. This usually indicates one of several concrete realizations of an abstract object. For example /*/gmd:identificationInfo could be gmd:MD_Metadata/gmd:identificationInfo or gmi:MI_Metadata/gmd:identificationInfo and gmd:identificationInfo//*/gmd:descriptiveKeywords could be gmd:identificationInfo/gmd:MD_DataIdentification/gmd:descriptiveKeywords or gmd:identificationInfo/srv:SV_ServiceIdentification/gmd:descriptiveKeywords.