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Welcome to the EPA Metadata Editor Pro wiki!

EPA’s Metadata Editor Pro is a custom ArcGIS Pro add-in tool that aids the practical documentation of geospatial datasets. EME for Pro assists GIS professionals in creating, editing, and validating metadata that complies with EPA’s Metadata Technical Specification , ISO’s 19115 standard endorsed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), and OMB’s Project Open Data (POD) schema. EME for Pro is EPA’s customization of Esri’s ArcGIS Pro metadata editor and creates ISO/POD-compliant ArcGIS Metadata.

Key Features

EME for Pro is EPA’s customization of Esri’s ArcGIS Pro metadata editing tools and functions completely within ArcGIS Pro as an addin. EME for Pro includes all the features derived from the seamless integration between geospatial data and metadata in Pro's ArcCatalog View along with these added benefits:

Mandatory fields highlighted, helping eliminate validation errors.
EPA-specific dropdowns provided for many metadata fields reduce guesswork.
Metadata field entries meet all EPA and Data.gov compliance requirements.
Geospatial metadata authors now have a tool that fully implements the ISO metadata standard.
EPA’s Geospatial Metadata Style Guide written specifically for EME, provides detailed guidance and recommendations for metadata field entries.

In addition to the above benefits, this new version of EME provides advantages over previous versions:

Consolidation of records: Only one metadata record required for all distribution methods (web service, data download)
Real-time validation of metadata field entries.
Compiled as an ArcGIS Pro add-in for easy installation.
Integrated Ribbon for centralized access to metadata tools.