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

1. 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.
2. 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.