EDI – A Template-Driven Metadata Editor for Research Data

Fabio Pavesi; Anna Basoni; Cristiano Fugazza; Stefano Menegon; Alessandro Oggioni; Monica Pepe; Paolo Tagliolato; Paola Carrara

doi:10.5334/jors.106

EDI – A Template-Driven Metadata Editor for Research Data

Authors

Fabio Pavesi IREA-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-0489
Anna Basoni IREA-CNR
Cristiano Fugazza IREA-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2679-4868
Stefano Menegon ISMR-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4488-8745
Alessandro Oggioni IREA-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-219X
Monica Pepe IREA-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5473-1050
Paolo Tagliolato ISMAR-CNR
Paola Carrara IREA-CNR https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6805-3756

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.106

Keywords:

form generator, metadata editing, INSPIRE, OGC, semantic enrichment, XML

Abstract

EDI is a general purpose, template-driven metadata editor for creating XML-based descriptions. Originally aimed at defining rich and standard metadata for geospatial resources, It can be easily customised in order to comply with a broad range of schemata and domains.

EDI creates HTML5 [9] metadata forms with advanced assisted editing capabilities and compiles them into XML files. The examples included in the distribution implement profiles of the ISO 19139 standard for geographic information [14], such as core INSPIRE metadata [10], as well as the OGC [8] standard for sensor description, SensorML [11].

Templates (the blueprints for a specific metadata format) drive form behaviour by element data types and provide advanced features like codelists¹ underlying combo boxes or autocompletion functionalities.

Virtually, the editing of any metadata format can be supported by creating a specific template.

EDI is stored on GitHub at https://github.com/SP7-Ritmare/EDI-NG_client and https://github.com/SP7-Ritmare/EDI-NG_server.

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Published

2016-10-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Software Metapapers

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