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Technical Paper

Creating a Custom Metadata Synchronizer


Synchronization is the process by which properties of a dataset are read from the dataset and written into its metadata. For release 8.1, a new set of objects was added to ArcGIS which allow users to customize the metadata that is created during synchronization. This white paper gives an overview of how to create a custom metadata synchronizer using ArcCatalog.

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