Project: InaSAFE
Version: 3.3.0
Metadata is a core part of the way we manage data and understand capabilities in InaSAFE. Metadata is used to indicate if a layer is hazard, exposure, aggregation or an impact layer. In the past, we used our own internal system for maintaining this metadata, using simple text files to hold key-value pairs. Using our own metadata system has a number of issues - it means that we can't easily interchange metadata with other GIS systems, and it means we spend effort re-inventing the wheel for recording basic metadata elements. We also encounter some technical limitations when using our home rolled metadata format - especially for our future plans where we intend to provide rich data for analysis results.
Thus InaSAFE 3.3 introduces a change from the .keywords format used in the past to the ISO19115 metadata format. As a user of InaSAFE, we have tried to keep this transparent to you. When you first load an InaSAFE layer created with an older InaSAFE version your .keywords file will be automatically converted to a .xml metadata file. This new file should be readable by online metadata tools and tools such as ESRI's ArcCatalogue.
This feature was funded by DFAT/DMInnovation
This feature was developed by Kartoza