P&S Avoiding Duplicate Metadata Records
From Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)
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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:
