ESG Metadata Architecture
Core Catalog
XML Schema
FGDC
Metadata
GILS
Metadata
FDRServer
Metadata
RDBMS
Metadata
XML
XML
XML
XML
XSLT
Defined by fields required to support application query functionality
Search Engine
Query API
Independent of XML schema
ESG Catalog Server
Query/Browse Client
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XML
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