White Papers

• Metadata and GIS—It is an exciting time to be involved with metadata, the key to data sharing on the Internet. This white paper describes how ESRI products work with the global spatial metadata community. [PDF-683 KB, 13 pages]
• Reporting Metadata for Access in ArcView and across INTERNET within the ArcInfo Data Model—This paper focuses on the development of metadata to meet the needs of our organization for use as:
• An online catalog of available GIS data sets in HTML documents for use both internally and externally
• An online descriptions of the geospatial data sets and their attributes for access in ArcView applications
• A tool in management of the GIS data sets on the MPGIS system
• The basis of the text file of required for data transfer.