v.sdts.meta(1)		      Grass User's Manual		v.sdts.meta(1)



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       vv..ssddttss..mmeettaa   -	Interactive  menu-driven utility to create and install
       supplementary metadata and data	quality  reports  for  a  vector  map,
       preparatory to their incorporation in an SDTS transfer dataset.
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       This menu-driven Tcl/Tk program enables the user to prepare and install
       supplementary metadata and data quality reports for a vector  map  pre-
       ceding  the  creation  of  an SDTS transfer dataset.  With v_._s_d_t_s_._m_e_t_a,
       metadata and data quality files can be edited,  saved,  retrieved,  and
       modified,  and then installed in the GRASS database in association with
       a particular vector map layer.  Subsequently, _v_._o_u_t_._s_d_t_s will  incorpo-
       rate  this  metadata  along  with  the associated vector map in an SDTS
       transfer dataset.


       In addition to the five data quality  modules,  supplementary  metadata
       items  currently  able  to be edited and installed include (1) creation
       date for the original source map; (2) a general TITLE for the transfer;
       (3) a general comment about the transfer; (4) name of geographic datum;
       (4) and (5), name and definition for the kind of  entity  contained  in
       the  GRASS  vector  layer being transferred; (6) and (7) custom defini-
       tions for the _d_i_g___a_t_t and _d_i_g___c_a_t_s values being transferred.


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       David Stigberg, U.S.Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory
       Tin Qian, University of Illinois



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GRASS 5.0							v.sdts.meta(1)
