Register your Data Collection
geodata.gov is a community of geographic data providers committed to making
information about your geographic resources available to others. If you have
geographic resources such as map services, maps, data and planned data collections
or Planned Data Activities that you are interested in sharing, we invite you to
register your data collection as part of geodata.gov.
Publishing Your Data Collection
Provide information about your geographic resources to geodata.gov in two easy
steps:
- Register to become a geodata.gov Publisher: The first step is to create
a geodata.gov account. Upon validating your account, you are prompted to accept
the geodata.gov Agreement. Once you accept it, you are asked to provide additional
information about the organization you represent to create your geodata.gov
publisher account. Register
Now.
- Publish to geodata.gov: You can publish metadata to geodata.gov using one
of the following methods:
- Harvesting: Register your metadata repository so that geodata.gov will
collect and publish updated metadata from your repository at a frequency
of your choice. geodata.gov can harvest metadata you store from any of
four types of sources: a Z39.50 server, Open Archive Initiative for Harvesting
Protocol (OAI-PMH) data provider or services, ArcIMS Metadata Server,
or a Web-accessible folder. To harvest data on a scheduled harvest we
need to determine if your metadata records have been updated or deleted.
We do this by comparing the unique identifier and the date that the document
was last updated with the information on geodata.gov. Your metadata must
contain this information for us to do a transaction-based harvest. The
latest Z39.50 software upgrade usually contains fields for an identifier
and date.
- Online Metadata Creation Form: Complete an online metadata creation
form for your Web service or geographic content. geodata.gov will use
this information to automatically create the metadata and publish it for
you.
- Online Upload Metadata File Utility: You may create metadata for
your Web service or geographic content using your favorite third-party
metadata tools. The online upload utility allows you to publish your metadata
(in FGDC or ISO metadata standard) files in Extensible Markup Language
(XML), or Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) format to geodata.gov.
By publishing content, you are acknowledging acceptance of the terms of the
Policies
and Privacy
Statements.