P&S Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records

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A teleconference was held Tuesday Feb 14, 2pm EST (11am PST)

Participants:
Jeff Arnfield jeff.arnfield@noaa.gov;
Keith Wichmann keith.wichmann@gst.com;
Gene Major major@gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov;
Phil Yang cyang3@gmu.edu;
Rob Raskin raskin@jpl.nasa.gov

General Results

  • From review of GeoSpatial OneStop, it is clear that several metadata repositories hold the records for the same datasets
  • It is not wrong to have multiple partially redundant repositories
  • Must have a way to resolve inconsistencies
Possibly authorize one of the sites as "official" record
  • The following paper by Ted Habermann discusses options for dealing with multiple records from different sources:
Whose metadata is this anyway?