M3Cat

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M3Cat

Summary

Type of tool

Application

Function

Metadata Cataloguing tool

Online / Desktop

Online

Computer infrastructure

Windows

Development status

Version 1.5

Time of use

Data creation

Licence

 

M3Cat is a Multistandard, Multilingual, Metadata Cataloguing Tool for the creation of geospatial metadata.

 

Description

M3CAT is a tool that assist users in entering and managing metadata about geospatial data sets. Online systems for handling metadata need to rely on their being predictable in both form and content. Predictability is assured only by conformance to standards. There are many standards for metadata such as the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, the GILS standard, the NBII standard (http://www.nbii.gov/) and the ISO/TC211 metadata standard. Organisations also tend to define a profile of metadata for their own applications, encompassing validation rules and customisation which take into account their particularities.

 

Developed under the CGDI GeoInnovations program by Intelec Geomatics (Intelec) and its partners.1

 

Function

  • Identification tools

 

Why use this tool?

  • M3Cat allows users to configure their own metadata fields using the standards delivered with the tool, such as FGDC, GILS, NBII and ISO 19115. Alternatively, users can build a specific standard profile, including language and cultural particularities, to fulfil their needs;
  • it allows users to customize the interface for standard values (pull-down lists, etc.) or establish default values for numerous metadata fields (organisation name, projection system, etc.);
  • it allows users to use templates that correspond to the type of data set they document and then take advantage of cataloguing aids such as Wizards or metadata inheritance between data sets to facilitate the development of metadata databases;
  • it uses an integrated multi-projection, multi-datum geographic viewer to enter data set bounding coordinates.2

 

Who will use this tool?

  • Data creation
    • Experts
    • Skilled
  • Data capture
    • Curators – specimens, identification
  • Data providers
    • Institutions
    • Private collections
    • Casual users

 

How will the tool be used?

  • M3Cat is used within a browser
  • Installation of M3Cat requires Internet Information Server under Windows
  • Metadata elements stored in either Access or Oracle
  • M3Cat can be used in standalone or multiple users mode.

 

Where in the data chain could this tool be used?

  • Data source

 

When could this tool be used?

  • Before data is made available to ALA

 

Availability

 

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