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Metadata

Beginner

27 hours

Self-paced

Taught by Zakaria Ngereja, Niina Käyhko, Venla Aaltonen & Zakaria Khamis

LESSONS

11

% complete

DURATION

27 hours

Self-paced

STUDENTS

995

enrolled

CERTIFICATE

Yes

on completion

About this course

This submodule consists of video lectures, exercises, hands-on practicals, voting and some additional reading materials. We suggest you mark your progress when you are done with the activities and materials. Please do the sections in the following order, as it might help you to learn the subject step-by-step. Also, you need some outcomes from the earlier sections, to make sure you can complete all the practicals.

Learning Outcomes

In this sub-module, you will learn principles and practical skills to use metadata standards for good quality geospatial data management. After completing the module, you are able to use metadata standards based on ISO19115 and recommendations of the OSGEO, and you are skilled in creating and evaluating the quality of the data based on the metadata, as well as creating metadata of your own data sets in a critical manner.

Course content

11 lessons

%

Lecture 2: Geospatial metadata standards (31 min)

Video · 31 min

Excercise 1: video story to metadata elements

Practical · hands-on

Practical 1: creating metadata

Practical · hands-on

Submit your exercise 1 form

Practical · hands-on

Correct answers for exercise 1

Reading

Exercise 2: Evaluating metadata quality

Practical · hands-on

Submit exercise 2 form

Practical · hands-on

Vote for the best metadata

Practical · hands-on

Resources

Reading

Futher reading

Reading

Your instructor

Zakaria NgerejaInstructor
Niina KäyhkoInstructor
Venla AaltonenInstructor
Zakaria KhamisInstructor

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Course details

Format

Self-paced

Language

English

Level

Beginner

Last updated

August 20, 2026

Certificate

Included ✓

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