General best practices

Next steps

  1. Review the Tufts Metadata Creation guide and OGP Solr Schema. – by Feb 14th

Tufts Metadata Creation Guide:
http://opengeoportal.io/working-groups/metadata/metadata-creation-guide/

OGP Solr Schema:
https://code.google.com/p/opengeoportal/wiki/Solr [old version]

https://github.com/OpenGeoportal/ogpSolrConfig/blob/master/ogpSolrConfig/SolrConfig/schema.xml [up-to-date schema]

2.  Add recommended metadata elements to our spreadsheet – by Feb 14th

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhwoY78nV-cIdFdwWXI2YVpiMkYzMFRyZjRjdHlUSlE#gid=0

3.  Describe each element using a template – by March 14th

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IeFjKMqXYhNwG6q8DiG7f3EthPpAo_KTOQM52obLH04/edit

 4.  Identify/establish thesauri to use for certain elements, such as those with originators/creators, data types, keywords, etc. – by March 14th

5.  Create a first draft of the General Best Practices – by March 28th