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ESRI Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata


This document describes the metadata elements that ESRI has added to the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata. These elements let ArcCatalog maintain metadata automatically, and provide more complete documentation for datasets particularly for objects stored in geodatabases.

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