Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid (MERMAid)

NCDDC provides coastal data resources (organizations and individuals) with a web-based tool to develop, validate, manage and publish metadata records via secure internet access. The Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid (MERMAid) allows users/data providers to establish unlimited metadata databases to organize their metadata records any way
they see fit (i.e. by program, project, data type, personnel).

Getting Started with MERMAid

• Request an Account

• V1.2 Getting Started Guide (PDF 5 MB)

• V1.2 Getting Started Guide (PPS 6.5 MB)

• V1.2 PPS WinZip File (ZIP 5.0 MB)

Key features in MERMAid include
(1) user-defined roles and permissions at the metadata management and database levels; (2) change tracking; and (3) enhanced validation. Also, your existing FGDC compliant metadata (in XML format) can be ingested into and managed through MERMAid.

In the near future, NCDDC will be shifting from its current metadata catalog to a knowledge base catalog. MERMAid will play an integral role in this transition. To better leverage these new capabilities, enhanced search and discovery tools will be made available to the public and metadata managers that will provide powerful drill-down features.

Additional Tools

NOTE: Some links on this page take you to offsite locations

Additional tools to assist in metadata creation and metadata management are available for download and for use online. The following tools provide a means to create FGDC compliant metadata. NCDDC does not endorse the tools named.

Downloadable and remote web-access tools (free)

• US Geological Survey

• Metatdata Pre Parser (cns) - A pre-parser for formal metadata.

• Metadata Parser (mp) - A compiler for formal metadata.

• TKME - A Windows platform metadata entry tool.

• XTME - UNIX platform metadata entry tool.

• NOAA Coastal Services Center (CSC)

• ArcView® Metadata Collector Version 2.0

• MetaScribe - Online utility for creating a custom metadata entry form (template).

• Other Tools

• Metavist 2005 – A Windows platform entry tool.

• Corpsmet95 – A Windows platform entry tool.

Commercial Software

• Blue Angel Technologies

• Information about the MetaStar Product Suite.

• Compusult Limited

• Information about the Meta Manager Software.

• ESRI

• ArcCatalog is a data exploration and management application that comes with ArcInfo 8 and newer.

• Intergraph

• Information about Intergraph's Spatial Metadata Management System (SMMS).

• Intelec

• M3Cat - A multi-standard and multi-lingual metadata cataloging tool for the creation of geospatial metadata.