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 metadata from our portal items, I've noticed that the fields information that was included in FGDC style metadata documents is not included in ISO style documents. After my colleagues and I did some digging, we learned that the fields information in ISO standards is meant to be communicated in an attached ISO 19110 feature catalogue, though apparently metadata creation software developers have been slow to implement this in their products. We found these two Esri Community posts from 2023 and 2024 indicating that Esri is planning to embed the ISO 19110 feature catalogue elements within the ISO 19115-3 document in near-term updates to ArcGIS Pro and/or ArcGIS Online, though it's been a few years since those posts, and we're not sure whether that timeline has changed since then.
If anyone knows whether there have been more recent developments in the timeline for ISO 19110 metadata to be embedded within ISO 19115-3 metadata in ArcGIS Online, Enterprise Portal, and Pro, we would really appreciate some more current information. We'd also be interested to hear what strategies people are using to make the fields information currently housed in feature catalogues available to their users in the interim before Esri has made their updates to ISO 19115-3 xml generation.
