LAST MODIFIED: June 23, 2014

CONTACT:
Philip Jones
NESDIS/NCDC/RSAD/AB (STG, Inc.)
philip.jones@noaa.gov 
ncdc.metadata@noaa.gov

DESCRIPTION: 
This directory contains ISO and related metadata files representing NCDC datasets. The XML metadata files are routinely harvested by community catalog portals to support discovery of NCDC datasets. The files meet NOAA mandates for publishing metadata and are updated frequently. 

Below are descriptions of the files in the sub-directories.

/documents:
Supporting dataset documents linked from the ISO metadata files

/guidelines:
Metadata Guideline documents

/images:
Browse image files for the ISO metadata files

/misc:
Miscellaneous items for metadata support

/published:
Published ISO metadata files harvested by data catalogs

/test:
Test ISO metadata files harvested internally by the Geoportal test instance

/xsd:
Supporting XML schema definition files

/xsl:
Supporting XML stylesheet language files