Resources and Links for Creating Watershed Boundary Dataset Metadata
These documents are compressed ZIP files.
WBD metadata template (ZIP; Revised: April 2009; Size: 30 KB)
The WBD metadata template meets WBD guidelines and includes a text file with definitions that must be provided by states submitting WBD's for national review and a "readme" file with instructions.
Geospatial Metadata Validation Service
A website provided by the USGS Geoscience Data Catalog that checks your metadata file online using mp (metadata parser).
MP Parser (ZIP; 125.1 KB)
MP Parser is a metadata parser used to verify that metadata are FGDC compliant. The ZIP file contains cns.exe and mp.exe files. The cns.exe file is a pre-parser, and the mp.exe file is a parser to verify that metadata are FGDC compliant.
