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Metadata Visibility in ArcGIS Online Item Details
My organization is doing a large push towards improving our metadata standards for all items in ArcGIS Online (as we all are I'm sure). The metadata editor in ArcGIS Online has great, organized, detailed fields for users to fill out regarding metadata, things we would like included with every AGOL item. However, after…
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Dublin Core+ metadata style now available across Pro, Online, and Enterprise!
The blog, Dublin Core+ Now Available in ArcGIS Pro 3.7, introduces Dublin Core+ as a simple, standards-based metadata style now available across ArcGIS. It focuses on the most important metadata elements needed for discovery, reuse, and AI readiness. Begin exploring, and let us know what questions and feedback you have!
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Announcing Esri Geoportal Server (Catalog) 3.1.0 !
Announcing Geoportal Server Catalog 3.1.0! We’re excited to share that Esri Geoportal Server (Catalog) 3.1.0 is now available! This release introduces a significant advancement with the addition of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) API for STAC, bringing the first agentic capability to Geoportal Server! Learn more here!…
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Live Training Seminar - Metadata Essentials for AI-Ready GIS
Live Training Seminar recording is now available on Esri Academy! Check out - Metadata Essentials for AI-Ready GIS Missed the live Metadata Essentials for AI‑Ready GIS training or want a refresher? Good news: the full recording is now available on Esri Academy. During the seminar, we worked to capture the questions that…
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Set a Metadata Style Different Than Organization
My ArcGIS organization uses a different metadata style than my program/group wishes to adopt for our data products in ArcGIS (and actively uses outside the ArcGIS environment). Is there a setting, or a plan to incorporate one in the future, to upload data with metadata in a style separate from the organization?
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Default Metadata in Portal
Is there a way as admin have a default metadata skeleton to prompt users to fill out when publishing or creating a layer, map, webapp, etc in ArcGIS Portal?
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Strategies for Making Field/Attribute Metadata Available to Users While Using ISO 19115-3 Metadata Standard
I work for a state agency with requirements that metadata be written to conform to ISO 191** group style standards, and I am beginning to work through the metadata for our existing datasets to ensure that they conform to the ISO 19115-3 standard. As I have been looking at the xml files downloaded when viewers obtain…
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Cant edit Metadata for SDE feature class in ArcPro, Works in ArcCatalog
My team is attempting to edit metadata for a feature class in an enterprise geodatabase with ArcPro and it doesn't seem to save any changes. I have tried to make a simple edit to the abstract in the editor and saved edits using the metadata edit tools but when I refresh or close/open the project the changes are not…
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A way to get the full overview of metadata for ALL datasets and items (in portal)?
Hello, Does anyone know of a way to get a full overview of metadata for all items and/or featureclasses, that is available? Either directly in Portal, or in ArcGIS Pro? I'm seaching for a table like structure, with all the information in one place. I can create a script to retrieve them, and publish it to a feature layer,…
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Updates to hosted feature layer metadata in AGOL does not seem to pull through to ArcGIS Pro
Morning, I have been updating metadata to hosted feature layers in AGOL via the overview page and edit metadata button. Once all the edits have been made I save the changes and they appear within the overview page i.e. the updated purpose, description, tags etc. However, when I then access that layer via ArcGIS Pro and…
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Import metadata from xml does not retain formatting
Morning, I have added metadata to a number of layers and exported these as xml files so that they can be imported to the same layers within future projects. However, when I import the xml it imports as continuous plain text, no paragraphs, italics or bold characters. I was wondering if there was a way to enforce the…
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Create and maintain attribute field metadata
Have you searched far and wide for data, only to realize that when you find what you need, you open the attribute table or data table and discover that you have no clue about the attribute fields and the information they contain? The data is difficult to comprehend, making it nearly impossible to use, let alone trust.…
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Metadata edit not available ?!
Hi, Has anyone else encountered this issue?: in ArcGis 3.5 desktop * edit an item's metadata* save/apply * edit another item's metadata* save/apply * return to first item and unable to edit metadata; states:* 'metadata is not available for this item, this item must support metadata and you must have write access' * without…
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Cross-posting question - Metadata in Pro vs Online vs Enterprise
I recently came across the following storymap about best practices for authoritative data and am curious about something with metadata. If sharing something from Arc Pro to Online or Enterprise, when is it best to create the metadata? Many times I have found that metadata from Pro does not always transfer to online so I…
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Attend Metadata Management Sessions & Get Your Questions Answered at Esri UC 2025
The 2025 Esri User Conference is right around the corner, and we are excited to connect with you. UC is filled with many presentations and events, with hundreds of topics covered. To help you get the most out of your experience, we’ve created a custom agenda for Metadata Management. We hope these sessions will be enjoyable…
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The metadata editor is now available in ArcGIS Pro 3.5
The new metadata editor is now available in ArcGIS Pro 3.5! Unify your metadata editing experience across the platform. Watch the video: https://ow.ly/gq2650VYwYW Read more on the metadata editor in ArcGIS Pro: https://ow.ly/8zPa30sMGcm
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Control Required Metadata Elements at Point of Creation
Want the ability to set the required components for item detail style meta data (or any metadata style) when users publish content/add items to our Organization. Currently we are trying to retroactively control sharing ability based on item completeness score. Would be nice to make certain components or all components a…
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Overwrite your metadata with ease - Get an overview of the new enhanced metadata editor overwrite capabilities in this new ArcGIS Blog article
Having good metadata is important for making the geospatial content you share findable. Thankfully, it’s never been easier with the new metadata editor. Learn about the process of overwriting metadata, and new enhancements, in this ArcGIS Blog article! Read the full article. Dialog for overwriting metadata
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Bulk edition Metadata Raster Mosaic Dataset
Hi Community, I would like to edit the metadata of hundreds of raster mosaic dataset. I'd like to avoid doing it one by one. Is there a tool to do this :-)? ArcGIS Pro, Python and Data Interops are my main working tools Thanks very much!!!
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Full ESRI metadata schema/superset (all elements!)
Hi all, A couple of years ago someone shared with me a spreadsheet describing every metadata element in the ArcGIS schema/format (in the "superset"). The spreadsheet was from 2021. Has there been a change in the schema since, or is the schema from 2021 still current? And where does ESRI maintain the documentation for the…
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ISO 19115-3 Support on ESRI Portal and ArcGIS Pro (and do we need Geoportal server?)
Hi all! Writing this post to ask for some help from the community, as we've been finding it hard to find the information we need about ArcGIS and Portal support for ISO 19115-1(-3) metadata on the ESRI website. I was hoping someone here might be able to point me to a good source of information. Ideally, this would be some…
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Esri Metadata Editor ISO 19115-3 Security Constraints: Classification Mapping
Hi, we are using the new Esri Metadata Editor to maintain metadata records for our spatial datasets using the ISO 19115-3 style. When we create a Security Constraint the using the editor the classification can be selected using the drop down list - but after saving, if we export or view the XML (or HTML) the Classification…
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Metasat
The demo for the ArcGIS understanding metadata and catalog was so helpful. It’s an important aspect of any GIS work. And as a student who participated, I have learned a lot and will be applicable to my school work. Thank you.
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Edit metadata outside of Pro
Has anyone been able to edit data outside of pro? I'm thinking updating the item description, abstract, and descriptions of fields in Excel and then bringing that back into Pro. I don't want to have a bunch of people directly connecting to the database to edit metadata is why.
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Has anyone exported Metadata using a custom XSLT?
I am on Pro version 3.2.0. I am currently working on exporting feature class level metadata to xml files using a custom XSLT. I am currently getting the following error RuntimeError: Failed to export metadata to 's' File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\utils.py", line 191, in fn_ return fn(*args, **kw)…
