| Metadata White Paper: A Practical Use of Metadata Standards by a NASA Earth Science Information Partner |
| FGDC Metadata Standard to ECS and GCMD DIF Mapping |
| FGDC Metadata Standard to GCMD DIF Mapping |
| Federal Geographic Data Committee |
| Metadata Tools Survey |
| ECS Overview of Metadata |
| NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) DIF Writer's Guide, Version 8 |
| Content Standard for Digital Geo-spatial Metadata,FGDC, 1998. |
| Content Standards for Digital Geo-spatial Metadata Workbook, FGDC, 1995. |
| Release B.1 Earth Science Data Model for the ECS Project, Hughes, 1997. |
| Metadata Management in GIS, ESRI White Paper Series, ESRI 1995. |
| Spatial Data Transfer Standard, USGS, 1992. |