QGIS is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) licensed under the GNU General Public License. QGIS is an official project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). It runs on Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, Windows and Android and supports numerous vector, raster, and database formats and functionalities.

The basic functionality expected from the Metadata Validator is a verification file metadata standards and regulations.Taking into account the requirements to ensure compliance with the standards ISO 19100 series as a model for the field of the underlying functionality of the validator are diagrams application metadata defined in the following standards:EN ISO 19115: 2005

• EN ISO 19119: 2006
• ISO / TS 19139: 2007
• INSPIRE Implementing Rules: Version 1.2
• The national technical guidelines in the field of metadata

These standards define the metadata elements that should or can be used to describe data and spatial services. Metadata Validator is a web application available to the public for all users. The result is a validation report, which assesses XML file. It contains a summary of the result of the validation, ie. Whether the file is compatible / incompatible with the selected profile metadata. Returns information on possible errors, along with the location of their occurrence in the file (metadata element).

• Access via two interfaces:
  • Graphical User Interface - Graphical User Interface (GUI) http://walidator.geoportal.gov.pl/walidatormetadanych
  • Interface WPS - Web Processing Service http://walidator.geoportal.gov.pl/WPSValidator/WPSValidatorService.svc

Metadata Editor application is a web application whose main task is to enable the user to create, edit metadata files, and manage existing files. In addition, the user can validate file in the adopted metadata profile and publish metadata in the metadata catalog.Supported functions are available through a graphical interface accessible from a web browser.

The new tool builds on the previous version of the metadata editor EGiB. The new version supports three general metadata profiles PZGiK, INSPIRE and ISO and several industry profiles including ORTHO, BMT, EMUiA, EGiB, imaging.

Members of the new Metadata Editor are provided:

• Public access to the tools, without having to log - if you do not create metadata published in the metadata catalog Geoportal
• Tool thin clients available online
• Integration with directory server Geoportal
• Support for ISO and INSPIRE and national technical guidelines in the field of metadata

The application is available at website: http://edytor.geoportal.gov.pl/edytormetadanych/ while providing the functionality of an authorized user is suspended until the completion of work related to the full integration of the Metadata Editor, the directory server under the contract to implement.

Validator data is available via two interfaces:

• Graphical User Interface - Graphical User Interface (GUI) http://walidator.geoportal.gov.pl/walidatormetadanych
• Interface WPS - Web Processing Service http://walidator.geoportal.gov.pl/WPSValidator/WPSValidatorService.svc