Metadata, Catalogs, and Search Blog

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!

Metadata coming for the ride when you automate an information product!

The Esri User Conference (Esri UC) has many presentations and events with hundreds of topics covered. To help you find your way to the Metadata, Catalog, & Search related sessions, we have prepared this focused agenda. Looking forward to seeing you at the UC!

Review the focused agenda.

How do you create INSPIRE Metadata using the new ArcGIS metadata editor? This tutorial provides step-by-step guidance. The new ArcGIS metadata editor, available in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3+, makes creating metadata in compliance with the European Commission's Open Data Directive and INSPIRE Directive easier than ever.

This lesson steps you through using the ArcGIS Enterprise metadata editor classic to create INSPIRE Metadata v2 for dataset metadata. This tutorial applies to creating INSPIRE Metadata in the ArcGIS Enterprise portal 10.9 to 11.2. Today, ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 11.3+ include the new metadata editor. See Create INSPIRE Metadata using ArcGIS’s New Metadata Editor. 

With the Fall ArcGIS Online 2023 release, the new metadata editor is officially out of Beta.

New search capabilities empower users to easily and quickly find the information they’re seeking as well as discover new content. (cross-posted from the ArcGIS Blog).

Join us in San Diego for these metadata-related sessions and activities.

With the ArcGIS Online summer 2023 release, we introduce the metadata editor beta, a streamlined experience for creating high-quality geospatial metadata.

This lesson teaches you how to create ISO 19139/19115 Metadata for layers in ArcGIS Online using the metadata editor (classic) and following the FGDC Technical Guidance: Data.gov and The GeoPlatform Metadata Recommendations.

Updated (2023-04-02) - This lesson was updated to reflect the most recent version of the FGDC Guidance, plus minor grammatical changes.

Updated (2024-01-10 - This lesson was updated to reflect that it is for use with the Metadata Editor Classic.