Using ArcCatalog

Importing and
exporting
metadata
Importing metadata
1. In the Catalog tree, click the
item for which you want to
import metadata.
2. Click the Metadata tab.
3. Click the Import Metadata
button on the Metadata
toolbar.
4. Click the Format dropdown
arrow and click the format of
the metadata that you will be
importing.
5. Click the Browse button.
6. Navigate to and click the
metadata file whose contents
you want to import. Click
Open.
7. If you don’t want ArcCatalog
to update the metadata with
the current properties of the
data, uncheck Enable
automatic update of
metadata.
8. Click OK.
The imported metadata
appears in the Metadata tab.
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If you have metadata that was
created outside of ArcCatalog,
you can import it if it’s stored in
one of the input formats
supported by the FGDC’s
metadata parser utility, mp;
these are the FGDC CSDGM
TXT, FGDC CSDGM XML, and
FGDC CSDGM SGML formats
in the Format list. ArcCatalog
uses mp itself to import and
export metadata in its supported
formats. Use the XML format to
import metadata created with
ArcCatalog. You can’t import
metadata in HTML format.
Importing overwrites all of an
item’s existing metadata. By
default, after importing,
ArcCatalog will update as many
metadata elements as possible
with values derived from the
item such as its coordinate
system. However, if you
uncheck Enable automatic
update of metadata in the
Import Metadata dialog box,
ArcCatalog won’t overwrite any
existing values. If you want to
choose which elements in the
imported metadata should be
updated automatically, uncheck
the option when importing, then
use the metadata developer
sample Set Synchronized u
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The imported metadata appears
in the Metadata tab.
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