- No installation needed, runs in a web browser
- Writes metadata content in open and machine-readable mdJSON format
- Manage multiple records in a session
- Import/export reusable record components
- Built-in validation and error reporting
- Integrated translation service to XML formats
- Lightweight, open and machine-readable JSON-based exchangeable content management format
- mdJSON Schemas defines structure and provides content validation
- Compatible with ISO 19115+, FGDC CSDGM
- Encapsulates GeoJSON for encoding geospatial extents
- Extensible
write once, export many times
- Stand-alone application, can be run from a web service, command line interface or a user interface
- Provides translations between metadata standards
- Validates content relative to output format
- Universal translator architecture
- Uses "readers" and "writers" to translate from input to output formats
- Called from mdEditor for seamless processing
- Customize visibility of mdJSON elements in the mdEditor interface
- Create custom schemas to enforce content rules
- Exportable for distribution to authors, updates via pull notification
- Guides authors in producing product relevant documentation
- Implements defined content standards, provides custom validation
A set of support tools to understand and validate mdJSON, test metadata translations and lookup code domains
- Schema Viewer: an interactive graphical user interface nodal mdJSON documentation tool
- Validation service to validate mdJSON partial or full records
- mdTranslator user interface to test schema translations whether partial or full records
- Codelists lookup, export to CSV or JSON formats
