[SIS-170] Creates a meteorological profile of ISO 19115 metadata

• Type: Task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Metadata
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin Desruisseaux
• Created: 01/Apr/14 01:00
• Updated: 07/Apr/17 09:12

Description

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) defines a WMO profile of ISO 19115 metadata. The MetOcean working group at OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) maintains a GitHub project with, among other resources, a test suite for that WMO profile. If there is volunteer for taking a closer look to this profile, we could take some the following actions:

• If WMO defines new types in addition to ISO 19115 types, then we should create a sis-wmo-profile module in the profiles group. The existing sis-french-profile module can be used as an inspiration about how to extend ISO 19115 with custom types.
• If WMO defines the mapping from some format used in the meteorological community to ISO 19115, then we should create a sis-theformat module in the storage group. The existing sis-netcdf module can be used as an inspiration about how to map metadata from a specific format to ISO 19115.
• If what WMO defines is not any of the above - for example if WMO defines rules about the content to put in existing metadata elements - then we should open a discussion on the mailing list about how (and if) we could support similar features (e.g. a metadata validator which depends on the profile used).

Note that the Apache Open Climate Workbench project may have more expertise for such task. An other project which may be related is OODT. Any work on this SIS task should probably be done in collaboration with those projects.

Issue Links

• relates to: SIS-356 NetCDF reader should recognize Earth Observation metadata